The great Herman Melville once wrote: “money, you think, is the sole motive to pains and hazard, deception and deviltry, in this world. How much money did the devil make by gulling Eve?” ...

It is often the case that a cinematic venture into a wildly popular novel goes striking awry, and Thomas Alfredson’s The Snowman is no exception. Adapted from Jo Nesbø’s internationally...