50 Most Anticipated Films: Fall Movie Preview

While I certainly don’t speak for every voice here at The Playlist, I do feel comfortable in saying there are few directors that excite us more than Tomas Alfredson. The director broke out with his fantastic “Let The Right One In” (which spawned a decent Hollywood reboot), then knocked it out of the park with “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” a movie so tightly cut and intricately paced, that it’s hard to find flaw with. Now it’s been a cold six years with a film from the director, but still it’s difficult to overstate how excited we were to find out he had paired with Michael Fassbender to bring “The Snowman” to life. Based on the best-selling serial killer novel, it’s hard not to be reminded of of the similarly grim and cold murder mystery series, “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo,” which made for the sort of adult fair that movies are wanting for these days. The only catch is that it’s embarrassingly hard to take the first trailer seriously…

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