The Snowman

It plays better than it reviews — the watch lands harder than the write-ups suggest.

• “Director Tomas Alfredson and cinematographer Dion Beebe have given The Snowman a gloriously subdued look.”

  Mark Feeney, Boston Globe · 63

• “It’s a serviceable, watchable thriller, with very gruesome images.”

  Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian · 60

• “It’s “Dragon Tattoo” complicated, without that one writer who could thin the material out, discerning between what is important and what should be treated as subtext, and cast accordingly.”

  Roger Moore, Movie Nation · 50

• “Ultimately, The Snowman is that most frustrating of film types: You can picture the good movie that it might have been; it’s just not the movie that’s up on the screen. For a while, it sinks into your bones. And then it just sinks.”

  Christopher Orr, The Atlantic · 45

• “Alfredson’s direction proves yawnsomely methodical, ticking off surviving plot points as though filling in some I-Spy Book of Scandinavian Crime Cliches.”

  Eric Kohn, IndieWire · 42