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Mary Pols, Time: VERY GOOD "I thought I'd had quite enough but Rapace's quietly simmering performance made me curious about what 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' does next." (Read the full review...) 816 words, 03/19/10 Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: VERY GOOD (cg) "...inevitably simplifies some of the plot knots in Stieg Larsson's 2005 best-seller... But there's still enough sexual gruesomeness..." (Read the full review...) 266 words, 03/19/10 Michael Phillips, A.O. Scott, At the Movies: WEAK (cg) Michael Phillips: "Skip it." A.O. Scott: "Skip it." (Watch the full review...) 50 seconds, 03/27/10 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Danish director Niels Arden Oplev fits the puzzle pieces together like a grandmaster of the mystery game... His hauting and hypnotic movie gets under your skin." (Read the full review...) 227 words, 03/19/10 Claudia Puig, USA Today: VERY GOOD (cg) "Don't wait for the American-made version coming up in a couple of years -- be sure to catch the riveting Swedish production..." (Read the full review...) 498 words, 03/26/10 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Lisbeth is as compelling as any movie character in recent memory. Played by Noomi Rapace with an unwavering intensity..." (Read the full review...) 779 words, 03/18/10 James Berardinelli, Reel Views: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Apparently, Rapace prepared for seven months to play Lisbeth and the singular performance argues that it was worth the effort." (Read the full review...) 938 words, 03/19/10
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Ms. Rapace is a fine professional scowler... [however,] she tends to register as an intriguing idea instead of a thoroughly realized character." (Read the full review...) 968 words, 03/19/10 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Niels Arden Oplev keeps the action relatively tight. But he revels in the story's sadism to an uncomfortable degree, especially in a needlessly vile rape scene." (Read the full review...) 153 words, 03/19/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...mind-bending and mesmerizing... takes its time unlocking one mystery only to uncover another, all to chilling and immensely satisfying effect.... unrelenting..." (Read the full review...) 669 words, 03/19/10 V.A. Musetto, New York Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "Lisbeth Salander is a punk-Goth dynamo.... a finely plotted, stylishly photographed and brilliantly acted whodunit that clocks in at 2 1/2 hours but never seems long." (Read the full review...) 346 words, 03/19/10 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...stars a wonderful Swedish-Icelandic actress named Noomi Rapace as the hacker and Michael Nyqvist as the reporter. They are excellent and subtle and honest." (Read the full review...) 475 words, 03/19/10 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Lisbeth is as compelling as any movie character in recent memory. Played by Noomi Rapace with an unwavering intensity..." (Read the full review...) 779 words, 03/18/10 John Patterson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: VERY GOOD "An elegant contraction of the novel... may be a shallower experience than the book, but it has a headlong velocity all its own." (Read the full review...) 253 words, 03/17/10 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: VERY GOOD (cg) "Noomi Rapace delivers a complicated and deliciously contrary performance that tattoos Lisbeth Salander straight onto the brain." (Read the full review...) 809 words, 04/16/10 Stephen Cole, Toronto Globe & Mail: VERY GOOD (cg) "Cold, but with an emotional explosion. A bracing, intense take on the mystery genre." (Read the full review...) 550 words, 04/16/10 Susan G. Cole, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "...director Niels Arden Oplev sustains the tension. And you can't take your eyes off Rapace, as the pansexual girl with the tattoo." (Read the full review...) 218 words, 04/15/10
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "...so engrossing... so rich and complex... so all-encompassing that the thought of its actually ending never occurs to you." (Read the full review...) 668 words, 03/19/10 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: OUTSTANDING (cg) "The rape and torture scenes, a vivid (and necessary) component of Larsson's book, are rendered with fearless detail... they are certainly not easy to watch." (Read the full review...) 505 words, 03/19/10 Walter Addiego, Houston Chronicle/San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a potboiler that's entertaining enough to rise above its flaws, which include a 152-minute run time.... grim but watchable, in the David Fincher mold." (Read the full review...) 377 words, 04/02/10 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a chilling detective tale, a horrific sexual abuse drama and an overlong, emotional, tie-up-every-loose-end melodrama..." (Read the full review...) 351 words, 05/07/10 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg) "Noomi Rapace bristles with electric energy and sexual heat... Peter Andersson is hissable as her repulsive court-appointed guardian." (Read the full review...) 238 words, 03/19/10 Kerry Lengel, Arizona Republic: EXCELLENT (cg) "...resists the urge to psychologize its characters too explicitly... strikes a leisurely pace in unfolding the story over 2 1/2 hours.... finely crafted..." (Read the full review...) 429 words, 04/02/10 Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...so full of cutting-edge energy and imagery that you may forget that what you're watching is built on the foundation of a good old-fashioned whodunit." (Read the full review...) 605 words, 04/02/10 Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "...makes an intriguing (even feminist) point about interpersonal and institutional power and misogyny." (Read the full review...) 563 words, 04/02/10 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: VERY GOOD (cg) "...draws you with deceptive transparency, shamelessly embracing both lightness and the ridiculous while sustaining a high level of psychological credibility." (Read the full review...) 716 words, 03/19/10 Laura DeMarco, Cleveland Plain-Dealer: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a slick, well-made, mainstream thriller... Played with violent, smoldering intensity by Noomi Rapace, Lisbeth steals the movie." (Read the full review...) 451 words, 04/09/10 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...long but moves swiftly, cutting between key scenes with a surgeon's precision. A combination of violent thriller, taut procedural and psychological drama..." (Read the full review...) 418 words, 03/19/10 Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: VERY GOOD (cg) "If there's a hesitancy to recommending the film despite its lively energy and cold-minded determination, it's that it sometimes feels like a series of puzzles being too-neatly solved..." (Read the full review...) 639 words, 04/16/10 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: VERY GOOD (cg) "...it's the tender rapport that develops between Lisbeth and the older Blomqvist that sustains our interest in this violent, overlong film." (Read the full review...) 364 words, 04/09/10 Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a bisexual cyber-punk computer hacker with a permanent chip on her shoulder... Her name is Lisbeth Salander, played to spiky perfection by Swedish spitfire Noomi Rapace..." (Read the full review...) 358 words, 04/29/10 Tom Long, Detroit News: EXCELLENT (cg) "...the previously unknown Rapace brings just the right stoic seethe to the character with her tight body a seeming constant knot of tension." (Read the full review...) 441 words, 04/09/10 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Noomi 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." (Read the full review...) 410 words, 04/09/10
John Patterson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: VERY GOOD "An elegant contraction of the novel... may be a shallower experience than the book, but it has a headlong velocity all its own." (Read the full review...) 253 words, 03/17/10 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: MODERATE (cg) "...veers from Visconti's 'The Damned' to Jonathan Demme's 'The Silence of the Lambs' without the decadence or the thrills of either." (Read the full review...) 162 words, 03/18/10 Tasha Robinson, AV Club: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a poisonous gem... as much mood piece as mystery, and the mood is almost always disturbing.... an artfully emotional film..." (Read the full review...) 391 words, 03/18/10 Susan G. Cole, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "...director Niels Arden Oplev sustains the tension. And you can't take your eyes off Rapace, as the pansexual girl with the tattoo." (Read the full review...) 218 words, 04/15/10 Curt Holman, Atlanta Creative Loafing: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...relies on a workmanlike plot and direction worthy of a slick, exploitative TV series, but Rapace's intriguing character keeps a tight grip on your attention." (Read the full review...) 453 words, 03/31/10 Tricia Olszewski, Washington City Paper: VERY GOOD "...took Sweden's Oscar-equivalent for 2009's Best Picture and Best Actress... That actress is Noomi Rapace, unforgettable here as Lisbeth..." (Read the full review...) 588 words, 03/18/10
Bob Mondello, NPR All Things Considered: EXCELLENT "...the author is also a sharp social critic, so what his characters uncover isn't just crime, but a whole dark side to Swedish society." (Listen to the full review...) 192 seconds, 03/19/10 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: OUTSTANDING "A stylish thriller with real complexity, people with interesting faces, a sensational actress cast as an ambisexual Goth hacker heroine... nothing but good." (Read the full review...) 295 words, 03/19/10 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Ms. Rapace is a fine professional scowler... [however,] she tends to register as an intriguing idea instead of a thoroughly realized character." (Read the full review...) 968 words, 03/19/10 Anthony Lane, New Yorker: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...something about the conception of Lisbeth's character, and about the far-reaching urgency of the sociopathic shocks behind the killing, smacks of a filmmaker pushing too hard..." (Read the full review...) 1,293 words, 03/22/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...mind-bending and mesmerizing... takes its time unlocking one mystery only to uncover another, all to chilling and immensely satisfying effect.... unrelenting..." (Read the full review...) 669 words, 03/19/10
Boyd Van Hoeij, Daily Variety: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...more of an action-light whodunit than a real thriller, and more of a CliffsNotes version than a deeply disturbing portrait of what's wrong with contempo Sweden." (Read the full review...) 752 words, 04/27/09 Sheri Linden, Hollywood Reporter: VERY GOOD "...a character-driven mystery of considerable emotional power, often harrowing and always compelling.... It isn't, however, above the hoariest of whodunit conventions..." (Read the full review...) 718 words, 03/09/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...mind-bending and mesmerizing... takes its time unlocking one mystery only to uncover another, all to chilling and immensely satisfying effect.... unrelenting..." (Read the full review...) 669 words, 03/19/10 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: EXCELLENT (cg) "...the film is flawed, self-indulgent... [but] so fluidly directed and expertly acted that it'seasier to disregard its various shortcomings." (Read the full review...) 1,419 words, 03/15/10 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Ms. Rapace is a fine professional scowler... [however,] she tends to register as an intriguing idea instead of a thoroughly realized character." (Read the full review...) 968 words, 03/19/10 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: OUTSTANDING "A stylish thriller with real complexity, people with interesting faces, a sensational actress cast as an ambisexual Goth hacker heroine... nothing but good." (Read the full review...) 295 words, 03/19/10
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