The Ice Tower

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The Ice Tower

Oct 2025

1h 58m

Fantasy

Drama

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Jeanne, a 15-year-old orphan, witnesses the shoot for a film adaptation of the fairy tale The Snow Queen, and she becomes fascinated by its star, Cristina, an actress who is just as mysterious and alluring as the Queen she is playing.

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Gorgeous as frost and just as brittle, The Ice Tower occasionally wobbles as a narrative but largely excels as an atmospheric meditation on the creative process.

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Isaac Feldberg

RogerEbert.com

This is not so much a film you watch as one you wake up from, shivering.

Rated: 4/4

Oct 3, 2025

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Jeannette Catsoulis

New York Times

There’s menace in this movie’s beautiful illusions, and Hadzihalilovic, who reveres silent cinema, presents some of her most trancelike scenes entirely without dialogue.

Oct 2, 2025

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Diego Semerene

Slant Magazine

The Ice Tower is, ultimately, an aesthetic and nostalgic exercise.

Rated: 3/4

Feb 22, 2025

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Connor Petrey

Pop Culture Leftovers

It's truly up to the eye of the beholder if The Ice Tower will be a worthy take on a twisted fairy tale detached from the works of Grimm.

Oct 28, 2025

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Dhruv Goyal

In Review Online

Hadžihalilović’s exquisitely composed images are overly exacting and over-insistently clear, making it the only project in her filmography that impresses without ever genuinely feeling expressive.

Oct 24, 2025

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Matthew Turner

Next Best Picture

“The Ice Tower” is a beautifully crafted coming-of-age story that casts a hypnotic spell, expertly blending cinema and fairytale to captivating effect. It further cements Hadžihalilović as one of the most distinctive voices in French cinema.

Rated: 8/10

Oct 20, 2025

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themanicexec

a film you don't just watch... you feel it, and let it envelope your entire being in the ethereal fever dream with all its beauty and tension that's as brittle as ice.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/03/25

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Stephen C

Success in 1 hour and 58 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/04/25

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Synopsis

Jeanne, a 15-year-old orphan, witnesses the shoot for a film adaptation of the fairy tale The Snow Queen, and she becomes fascinated by its star, Cristina, an actress who is just as mysterious and alluring as the Queen she is playing.

Director: Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Producer: Muriel Merlin
Screenwriter: Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Geoff Cox
Distributor: Yellow Veil Pictures
Production Co: 3B Productions
Genre: Fantasy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 3, 2025, Limited
Runtime: 1h 58m

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