Critic Reviews

• Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader

  Any charm evaporates amid the rampant amorality.

• Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

  Thomson is more successful at visual composition than narrative momentum; would-be sequences of black comedy are too stretched out to benefit from timing.

• Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger

  Just when it's lulled you into complacency, it springs back to life - and death.

• Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times

  Despite on-point performances, the story is too pitted with holes and loose ends to permit the film a bump from meh to marvelous.

• Steve Erickson, Village Voice

  Unfortunately, the images are more inviting than the narrative.

• Andrew Schenker, Time Out New York

  The tone here is unhurried and the bursts of violence and narrative played at an aesthetic remove, but the cycles of languor and activity ultimately feel too calculated-the strained overlay of sensationalism onto a desiccated canvas.

• Calum Marsh, Slant Magazine

  A tonal hodgepodge ever at odds with itself, Tomasz Thomson's unctuous, tongue-in-cheek debut is far too self-satisfied with its jokes for any to really be funny.

• Doris Toumarkine, Film Journal International

  Fun, often droll crime thriller about a grungy slob of a hit man given an assignment in the remote, snowy Carpathian Mountains provides a nifty ride for both more demanding audiences and the usual suspects looking for raunchiness.

• Marshall Fine, Hollywood & Fine

  A gloomy comedy that's funnier in theory than in practice.

• Alison Willmore, AV Club

  Tonally, Snowman's Land feels like a German throwback to a '90s indie, but without the energy-the pacing is languid to the point of aimlessness ...

• Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

  A zany Teutonic character-driven film noir that's filled with deadpan comedy.

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