<P> In the United States and Canada, The Snowman was released alongside Boo 2! A Madea Halloween, Geostorm, and Only The Brave, and was expected to gross around $10 million from 1,813 theaters in its opening weekend . However after making just $1.3 million on its first day (including $270,000 from Thursday night previews), weekend predictions were lowered to $4 million . It went on to debut to just $3.2 million, finishing 8th at the box office . In its second weekend the film dropped 64% to $1.2 million, falling to 17th place at the box office . The film was then pulled from 1,291 theaters in its third week and fell 86% to $167,685, finishing 33rd . </P> <P> The Snowman received negative reviews from critics, who decried the film's scattered and incomprehensible plot line and bemoaned the lack of direction for its main cast members . On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 8% based on 157 reviews, with an average rating of 3.1 / 10 . The site's critical consensus reads, "A mystery that feels as mashed together and perishable as its title, The Snowman squanders its bestselling source material as well as a top - notch ensemble cast ." On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film has a weighted average score of 23 out of 100, based on 38 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "D" on an A+ to F scale . </P> <P> Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times gave the film a negative review, writing "There's probably a good movie or several buried in the frigid wilds of Nesbø's fiction, and with more time and cultural nuance and fewer cooks in the kitchen, it might well be realized . Watching this bungled slopsicle of a movie, it's hard not to conclude that somebody let the wrong one in ." Variety's Guy Lodge also called the film a disappointment, saying: "If The Snowman were merely a chilly, streamlined precis of a knottier page - turner, it could stolidly pass muster . The sad surprise here, considering how deftly Alfredson and Straughan previously navigated the far more serpentine plot machinations of a John le Carré classic, is the snowballing incoherence of proceedings ." Manohla Dargis of The New York Times called the film a "leaden, clotted, exasperating mess". </P>

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