This emotional climax of the film, with its warring glints of despair and hope, typifies the stunning achievement of The Ice Storm and confirms Lee as a director of the first rank. (metacritic.com)
The lifesaving measures employed by the government also end up being the one thing that might potentially kill us all, making the nuclear blast climax of the film all the more harrowing. (qwipster.net)
Raimi's visual energy is virtually ceaseless, which does bolster the film as an overall magnificent spectacle, and yet the lack of enough moments when the story can catch its breath does eventually takes its toll, as the visuals try to one - up each other to get to the cataclysmic climax of the film. (qwipster.net)