Storyline
Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous looking snowman.
Directors
Cast
Toby Jones, Michael Fassbender, J.K. Simmons, Roger Barclay, Val Kilmer, David Dencik, Ronan Vibert, Alec Newman, Genevieve O'Reilly, Anne Reid, Anthony Mark Streeter, James D'Arcy, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Chloë Sevigny, Johnny Otto, Adrian Dunbar, Jakob Oftebro, Rebecca Ferguson, Dinita Gohil, Irina Kara, Jamie Clayton, Jack Roth, Jonas Karlsson, Michael Yates, Jeté Laurence, Peter Dalle, Sofia Helin, Leonard Samuelsson Heinemann, Silvia Busuioc, Jamie Michie, Charlot Daysh, Jan Lindwall, Aurora Nossen, Joakim Skarli, Harris Reiz, Ellen Hauge Brandstorp, Marius Tveit, Adrian Salinas Reinertsen, Bjørn Iversen, Victoria Ennis, Stian Werme, Magnus Lund, Alexander Johansson, Thor Hoff, Eirik Spånem Eliassen, Karl Andersen, Stani Lolo Jean, Ali Al-Tobi, Thomas Gangstad, Martin Grid Toennesen, Mikael Ulrichsen
Trailer
Reviews
60
It’s a serviceable, watchable thriller, with very gruesome images.
42
Alfredson’s direction proves yawnsomely methodical, ticking off surviving plot points as though filling in some I-Spy Book of Scandinavian Crime Cliches.
40
For all its high-caliber talent mix, The Snowman is a largely pedestrian affair, turgid and humorless in tone. The cast share zero screen chemistry, much of the dialogue feels like a clunky first draft and the wearily familiar plot is clogged with clumsy loose ends.
40
There’s a lot happening on the surface of Alfredson’s perplexing winter wonder-why, but considerably less going on inside.
40
Jo Nesbo’s Harry Hole series is comprised of page-turning, airport-blockbuster Scandi crime potboilers; Alfredson scorches the seventh, The Snowman, with such art-house intensity that it eventually melts into an exhausted puddle.
