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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara
Dec 20, 2011
R, 2 hr. 37 min.

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Movie Info

Cast: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgård, Steven Berkoff, Robin Wright, Yorick van Wageningen, Joely Richardson, Geraldine James, Goran Visnjic
Director: David Fincher
Rated: R
Running Time: 2 hr. 37 min.
Genre: Mystery & Suspense, Drama
Theater Release: Dec 20, 2011
DVD Release: Mar 20, 2012
Synopsis: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first film in Columbia Pictures' three-picture adaptation of Stieg Larsson's literary blockbuster The Millennium Trilogy. Directed by David Fincher and starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, the film is based on the first novel in the trilogy, which altogether have sold 50 million copies in 46 countries and become a worldwide phenomenon. -- (C) Sony

Critic Reviews

  • Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune News Service
    Best picture? Best director? It's certainly better than some of the nominated films. But Fincher & Co. lose points every time this movie is nothing more than a slightly -- just ever so slightly -- inferior version of the Swedish films.
  • Joe Baltake, Passionate Moviegoer
    Fincher's 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo': Retrofuturism
  • Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
    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.
  • Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
    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.
  • Eric D. Snider, Film.com
    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.
  • Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader
    David Fincher's adaptation of the international best-seller is a triumph of craftsmanship over material.
  • J. Hoberman, Village Voice
    An altogether leaner, meaner, more high-powered, stylish, and deftly directed affair, though similarly hampered by a too-long narrative fuse.
  • Dana Stevens, Slate
    Even Fincher's elegantly gruesome style can't turn this Swedish noir into the meditation on evil and corruption that it fancies itself to be.
  • Mark Rabinowitz, CNN.com
    When it comes down to it, this is Rooney Mara's movie, and I don't care if the second and third stories are any good as long as they are full of Lisbeth Salander.
  • James Berardinelli, ReelViews
    This is what a movie adaptation should be: a film whose base narrative has its roots in the source material but whose soul can be identified through the images that unfold on screen.
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