Fresh
An engrossing and classically suspenseful story
Jen Chaney, Washington Post
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Based on the Worldwide Best Seller
2009 · 2h 32m · R
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Niels Arden Oplev
Overview
Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece
Director and cast
- Niels Arden Oplev Director
- Michael Nyqvist as Mikael Blomkvist
- Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander
- Lena Endre as Erika Berger
- Sven-Bertil Taube as Henrik Vanger
- Peter Haber as Martin Vanger
- Peter Andersson as Nils Bjurman
- Marika Lagercrantz as Cecilia Vanger
- Tomas Köhler as 'Plague'
- Ingvar Hirdwall as Dirch Frode
- Björn Granath as Gustav Morell
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
85%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a handsome thriller, anchored by an arresting performance in the title role by Noomi Rapace.
Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com
Fresh
A chilling detective tale, a horrific sexual abuse drama and an overlong, emotional, tie-up-every-loose-end melodrama that is sure to be half an hour shorter when Hollywood remakes it without Swedish dialogue and probably without the cool Swedish edge.
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Fresh
Rapace's haunting, enigmatic Lisbeth is the element that leaves you eager for the next two installments. She's fantastic, and so is the movie.
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
Fresh
A bracing survey course on the mystery genre set in a Scandinavian landscape as cold as a killer's kiss.
Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail
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