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A compelling thriller to begin with, but it adds the rare quality of having a heroine more fascinating than the story.
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It's one of the most engaging foreign films to come along since 'Tell No One' in 2008.
91
Tattoo is as much mood piece as mystery, and the mood is almost always disturbing.
91
The key to the film’s effectiveness is the casting of Rapace, who, while not mapping quite exactly to the book’s physical descriptions, is riveting.
91
Rapace is a magnetic presence in a far-ranging mystery requiring such a solid character to orbit around.
90
A mind-bending and mesmerizing thriller that takes its time unlocking one mystery only to uncover another, all to chilling and immensely satisfying effect.
88
Rife with nightmarishly violent and horrific behavior. It's intense, graphic, frightening.
88
This dynamite thriller shivers with suspense. So if you ignore The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) because it's in Swedish with English subtitles, you probably deserve the remake Hollywood will surely screw up.
88
The biggest compliment you can pay the much-anticipated film adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is that you can't imagine Stieg Larsson's corker of a story ever having existed in book form.
88
Balances character development with plot, and that's crucial to its success.
