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The Snowman
MEANRANK
41/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5749
- IMDb #5495
- Google retired #3793
- Rotten Tomatoes #5128
- Metacritic #5090
- Letterboxd #5781
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5494
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #5116
- Metacritic Critics #4946
- Metacritic Audience #5061
- Criticker #467
- Kinopoisk #5209
- AlloCiné #5160
- Trakt #4912
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 7, highest is Criticker on 65. Critics average 15, everyone else 47.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →An elite detective with a troubled past investigates the disappearance of a woman during the first snowfall of winter in Norway. He uncovers a chilling connection to a pattern of cold cases, each linked by the presence of a snowman at the crime scene. He realizes he is hunting a cunning serial killer who uses the winter weather as his backdrop, leading a race against time before the next snowfall and the next victim.
Details
- Director
- Tomas Alfredson
- Writers
- Hossein Amini, Peter Straughan, Søren Sveistrup
- Based on
- The Snowman by Jo Nesbø
- Released
- 24 August 2017
- Country
- Sweden, United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $35.0M
- Box office
- $43.2M
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