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41 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanFincher has made The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo into an electrifying movie by turning the audience into addicts of the forbidden, looking for the sick and twisted things we can't see.
- 90The New YorkerDavid DenbyThe New YorkerDavid DenbyThis is a bleak but mesmerizing piece of filmmaking; it offers a glancing, chilled view of a world in which brief moments of loyalty flicker between repeated acts of betrayal.
- 80VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangAs classy a film as could be made from Stieg Larsson's sordid page-turner, David Fincher's much-anticipated return to serial-killer territory is a fastidiously grim pulp entertainment that plays like a first-class train ride through progressively bleaker circles of hell.
- 80EmpireDamon WiseEmpireDamon WiseA tough, post-punk Tintin-meets-Klute for the Occupy Wall Street set, this kinetic, hard-edged thriller is the perfect festive comedown for Fincher fans and dysfunctional families everywhere.
- 80Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzArizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzThe movie plays to Fincher's strengths, with its dark elements and cool feel, combining for a bracing pop-culture experience.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyDragon Tattoo is too neatly wrapped up, too fastidious to get under your skin and stay there.
- 63Slant MagazineEd GonzalezSlant MagazineEd GonzalezThe difference between Niels Arden Oplev's adaptation of Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and David Fincher's own is not, as some might have hoped, the difference between night and day, but between curdled milk and a warmed-over holiday second.
- 60Boxoffice MagazineSara Maria VizcarrondoBoxoffice MagazineSara Maria VizcarrondoYou'll be happier with the film if you don't expect fidelity to source material, but that doesn't mean you'll hate it if you loved Niels Arden Oplev's movie.
- 60Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichFincher's film tips much more in the indulging direction of crowd Comic-Con - delighting the franchise junkie above all other considerations.