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Ben Mankiewicz, At the Movies: It felt formulaic from start to finish. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The Norwegian Nazi-zombie movie Dead Snow is quite the jolly mountain holiday, pitting a group of medical students against a battalion of undead, unpleasant and unstoppable German soldiers hellbent on ruining a perfectly good Easter vacation. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: Once the action broadens to the open snow and the victims start to fight back, the Nazi-zombie premise finally pays off. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Gore hounds will enjoy the comic mayhem and picturesque blood splatter on the virgin snow. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: It's a good season for zombies. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Cheery, silly, splattery, and respectful of its elders, this bloody/cheesy subtitled Scandinavian lark is written and directed
 by Tommy Wirkola, who has a nice touch with severed limbs. Read more
Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: Those undead baddies, allegedly flash-frozen since World War II, are kind of unique, but they don't make up for the sense of deja vu one feels watching the rest of Wirkola's bloody vacation-from-hell-athon. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: If you're in the mood for splatter, well, any film in which someone avoids a nasty fall by grabbing not a rope but a slowly unwinding intestine is certainly in the mood to deliver it. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Despite some dry humor, this is no-frills horror, from the hacked limbs to the gouged eyes. Read more
V.A. Musetto, New York Post: [Director] Wirkola keeps the narrative taut, wasting not a frame; and he throws in funny moments, one involving a Nazi's icky intestine. Matt Weston's cinematography adds to the twisted charm. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: The result piles on relentless thrills and unimaginable horrors, with a shock ending guaranteed to make you scream out loud. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: If Mystery Science Theater 3000 had never existed, Dead Snow would have had to invent it. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: If you tamp down your expectations there is a storm of scary fun to be had in this Scandinavian splatterfest. Read more
Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: This splatter film is set in Norway, but rest assured, it sticks with the formula. Read more
Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: Every new zombie movie, however, has to be a little bit different than the one that came before it. Otherwise, it wouldn't be horrifying or much fun. Read more
Jason Anderson, Toronto Star: It's almost endearing how little Wirkola disguises his thefts from the gore-fests of Raimi, Peter Jackson and George A. Romero. Read more
Chuck Wilson, Village Voice: Let's call this the gooiest movie of the year (so far). Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: If it sounds silly, it is, but in the best way. Read more