Movie review: Fassbender won't melt your heart in dreadfully incoherent thriller 'The

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Movie review: Fassbender won't melt your heart in dreadfully incoherent thriller 'The Snowman'

10-20-2017 12:58 PM

In "The Snowman," a wretched waste of time and talent from the Swedish director Tomas Alfredson ("Let the Right One In"), two detectives track a serial killer who likes to hack up women’s bodies and then scatter the pieces all over: a head here, a limb there. The movie, perhaps subscribing to the fallacy of imitative form, adopts this dispersal method as a narrative strategy: a scene here, a flashback there, chunks of exposition strewn about like severed fingers. You could try piecing it all together, but really, what would be the point? Dead is dead.


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