‘The Dead of Winter’ Review: Emma Thompson Warms the Frozen Heart of an Icy, Generic Thriller

Emma Thompson’s palpable aura of capability and down-to-earth shrewdness has seldom been better deployed than in “The Dead of Winter.” Without the star channelling the blunt good sense and sing-song Minnesotan vowels of “Fargo’s” Marge Gunderson, Brian Kirk’s midwestern midwinter thriller would amount to little more than an episode of “Criminal Minds” with a bigger […]