The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

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Fincher's 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo': Retrofuturism

January 8, 2012 Full Review | Comments (2)

Joe Baltake

Passionate Moviegoer

Top Critic

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.

December 22, 2011 Full Review | Comments (45)

Joe Morgenstern

Wall Street Journal

Top Critic

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.

December 22, 2011 Full Review | Comments (65)

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

Top Critic

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.

December 21, 2011 Full Review | Comments (32)

Eric D. Snider

Film.com

Top Critic

David Fincher's adaptation of the international best-seller is a triumph of craftsmanship over material.

December 21, 2011 Full Review | Comments (6)

Ben Sachs

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

An altogether leaner, meaner, more high-powered, stylish, and deftly directed affair, though similarly hampered by a too-long narrative fuse.

December 20, 2011 Full Review | Comments (2)

J. Hoberman

Village Voice

Top Critic

David Fincher's Hollywood take on the Stieg Larsson bestseller is a sleek yet somehow soulless adaptation.

March 4, 2013 Full Review

Tom Glasson

Concrete Playground

A compelling ride for die-hard fans of the book series, dramatic thriller enthusiasts, as well as anyone who enjoys Fincher's darker works.

October 2, 2012 Full Review

Ben Kendrick

ScreenRant

While this film is a brilliant, dispassionate rival to the also-brilliant Swedish original, the films that could really use the Fincher treatment are the two sequels.

September 25, 2012 Full Review

Matt Looker

TheShiznit.co.uk

If you haven't seen the original Swedish film (which is highly recommended), this new version is good enough to recommend as a fair telling of the story with some really good performances and direction.

September 18, 2012 Full Review

Jeff Beck

Examiner.com

Fincher's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo manages to build on the original film without copying it, reinventing it or ignoring it.

September 15, 2012 Full Review

Kristal Cooper

We Got This Covered

Feels surprisingly tame thanks to weakened characters and story changes that rob the mystery of much-needed suspense.

August 22, 2012 Full Review

William Bibbiani

CraveOnline

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo can't quite transcend its junk foundation or...the familiar beats of the other adaptation.

August 17, 2012 Full Review

Mark Pfeiffer

Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

I regret is that I'd seen the 2009 original and was familiar with the story because it took the punch out of the major plot points/twists.

May 8, 2012 Full Review

Blake Howard

2UE That Movie Show

A very moody, well made retelling of Stieg Larsson's book, but the film also lacks much purpose and sometimes focuses on the grim with an exploitative eye.

April 1, 2012 Full Review

R. L. Shaffer

IGN DVD

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.

March 23, 2012 Full Review | Comments (8)

Roger Moore

McClatchy-Tribune News Service

It's ultimately David Fincher's perfectionist talent for creating a gripping aesthetic that raises this film above your average James Patterson adaptation.

March 22, 2012 Full Review

Catherine Bray

Film4

Was it really worth the effort? For all Fincher's famously fanatical control, he can't dispel the stench of half-baked cheese that hangs over the source material.

March 19, 2012 Full Review | Comments (2)

Donald Clarke

Irish Times

I may be one of the few who prefers the original Swedish TV version, but Fincher does a nice job of staying faithful to the Larsson novel and infusing it with his own sense of style.

March 14, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

James Plath

Movie Metropolis

If you enjoy a good mystery that's as grimy as a stomped on cigarette on the pavement then this film will have you hooked. Fans of the books should be pleased.

March 8, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Cameron Williams

The Popcorn Junkie

It's an effective, if unfathomable, entry in the Fincher canon.

January 30, 2012 Full Review

Matt Glasby

Flicks.co.nz

Para quien no haya visto la adaptación sueca de 2009, La chica del dragón tatuado va a resultar una película mucho más interesante que para el resto.

January 29, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Enrique Buchichio

Uruguay Total

Como todas as obras de Fincher que se calcam na razão, é uma produção envolvente, inteligente e intrigante.

January 25, 2012 Full Review

Pablo Villaca

Cinema em Cena

After watching both the laborious 2009 Swedish version, and now Fincher's [serviceable] English language remake, I am beginning to suspect that Larsson's book just isn't very good.

January 18, 2012 Full Review | Comments (15)

Tom Clift

Moviedex

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" will leave its mark on you. Dark, brutal and intriguing, this version is as troubling and memorable as its Swedish counterpart. Its disturbing tone begins in the opening credits and continues to the last frame.

January 16, 2012 Full Review | Comments (2)

Linda Cook

KWQC-TV (Iowa)

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  2. Mikael Blomkvist: it didn't work. I'm here.
  3. Martin Vanger: Mikael, it did work. You're here.
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• 1. Lisbeth Salander: Something wrong with the report?
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  3. Lisbeth Salander: There's nothing 'not in it'.
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  5. Lisbeth Salander: He's clean in my opinion.
  6. Dirch Frode: You mean, he's hygienic?
  – Submitted by Kevin L (7 months ago)
• 1. Lisbeth Salander: He has had a long standing sexual relationship with his co-editor of the magazine. It destroyed his marriage but not hers. He sometimes performs cunnilingus.... Not often enough, in my opinion.
  2. Dirch Frode: No you were right to leave that out.
  3. Lisbeth Salander: I know.
  – Submitted by Michael C (7 months ago)
• 1. Mikael Blomkvist: 'There's one more possibility...'
  2. Lisbeth Salander: Just a second please... okay, what were you saying?
  – Submitted by Pattie B (8 months ago)
• 1. Lisbeth Salander: I like working with you.
  2. Mikael Blomkvist: I like working with you too.
  – Submitted by Pattie B (8 months ago)
• 1. Lisbeth Salander: Everybody has secrets, the trick is just finding out what they are.
  – Submitted by Jack P (11 months ago)