Fresh
It's certainly worth seeing if you missed the original. If you saw it, however, there's no way of unseeing it, and nothing in the new one to top it.
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
What is hidden in snow, comes forth in the thaw.
2011 · 2h 38m · R
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
David Fincher
Overview
Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.
Director and cast
- David Fincher Director
- Daniel Craig as Mikael Blomkvist
- Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander
- Christopher Plummer as Henrik Vanger
- Stellan Skarsgård as Martin Vanger
- Robin Wright as Erika Berger
- Steven Berkoff as Dirch Frode
- Joely Richardson as Anita Vanger
- Embeth Davidtz as Annika Blomkvist Giannini
- Geraldine James as Cecilia Vanger
- Goran Višnjić as Dragan Armansky
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
86%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Fincher's Dragon Tattoo is a faithful adaptation that brings the dazzle but shortchanges on the daring... It's gloriously rendered but too impersonal to leave a mark.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Rotten
What he has delivered is adequate, but it doesn't have any flavor - and of all the things Fincher is, "bland" is not usually one of them.
Eric D. Snider, Film.com
Fresh
David Fincher's adaptation of the international best-seller is a triumph of craftsmanship over material.
Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader
Fresh
An altogether leaner, meaner, more high-powered, stylish, and deftly directed affair, though similarly hampered by a too-long narrative fuse.
J. Hoberman, Village Voice
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