Män som hatar kvinnor 2009

A.O. Scott, At the Movies: The violence in this movie is so intense and upsetting and... I don't think actually serves the purposes of the storytelling or the points this movie wants to make. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: A chilling detective tale, a horrific sexual abuse drama and an overlong, emotional, tie-up-every-loose-end melodrama that is sure to be half an hour shorter when Hollywood remakes it without Swedish dialogue and probably without the cool Swedish edge. Read more

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: 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 more

Manohla Dargis, New York Times: Noomi Rapace more or less looks the part that the filmmakers don't let her fully play. Read more

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: A stylish thriller with real complexity, people with interesting faces, a sensational actress cast as an ambisexual Goth hacker heroine -- the news about The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is nothing but good. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Told with a jolting, lurid energy, The Runaways feels oddly off-balance. Read more

Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a handsome thriller, anchored by an arresting performance in the title role by Noomi Rapace. Read more

Tasha Robinson, AV Club: A poisonous gem, in large part thanks to fearless performances and an unwaveringly graphic sensibility that doesn't flinch at the most horrific parts of Larsson's story. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: It's easy to forget how dissatisfying so much Hollywood trash is until you see a good imported version. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The cluttered narrative leaves little room for character development, though director Niels Arden Oplev does manage to accommodate plenty of gratuitous torture and rape. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is exceptionally well-acted. But I've sort of had it with this stuff, whether it's American or Swedish. Read more

Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News: There's a lot to revel in, be provoked by and obsess over. Read more

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo grapples with far more than "whodunit." And it does a handy job of answering that question, too. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: You don't mess with Lisbeth Salander. And you'd do well not to miss her, either. Read more

Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly: This action/art-house hybrid miraculously manages to be faithful to Larsson's novel without seeming slavish. Read more

Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: Everyone has secrets in the The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, a mind-bending and mesmerizing thriller that takes its time unlocking one mystery only to uncover another, all to chilling and immensely satisfying effect. Read more

Anthony Lane, New Yorker: Noomi Rapace throws herself into the title role, but something about the conception of her character, and about the far-reaching urgency of the sociopathic shocks behind the killing, smacks of a filmmaker pushing too hard. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: There's nothing calming about director Niels Arden Oplev's style, which is fast and furious and smartly mirrors content. Read more

Bob Mondello, NPR: The author is a sharp social critic, so what his characters uncover isn't just crime, but a whole dark side to Swedish society -- not least a terrible, sadistic misogyny. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: The mismatched leads make a compelling pair, and director Niels Arden Oplev keeps the action relatively tight. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: A finely plotted, stylishly photographed and brilliantly acted whodunit that clocks in at 2 1/2 hours but never seems long. Read more

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is rife with nightmarishly violent and horrific behavior. It's intense, graphic, frightening. And, yes, exhilarating. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: It unfolds not with the breakneck velocity of a typical movie of this sort, but with the gradual, unforced, character-based focus of a novel. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a compelling thriller to begin with, but it adds the rare quality of having a heroine more fascinating than the story. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Rapace, a brooding beauty who won a Swedish Oscar for this performance -- and also appears in two more forthcoming installments of this series -- invests Lisbeth with a powerful, wounded dignity; she's much more than a Lara Croft-style cartoon. Read more

Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: Those who stick it out will see an especially dark murder mystery that presents Swedish society as corrupt and profoundly antagonistic to women. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: A densely plotted 2 1/2-hour saga, with enough mutilation, serial homicide, S&M rough stuff, cold-blooded violence and frank nudity to spice up the saggy bits. Read more

Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: It's the tender rapport that develops between Lisbeth and the older Blomqvist that sustains our interest in this violent, overlong film. Read more

Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: A bracing survey course on the mystery genre set in a Scandinavian landscape as cold as a killer's kiss. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Appreciation of the film relies more on the performances than the problem-solving, and Rapace delivers a complicated and deliciously contrary performance that tattoos Lisbeth Salander straight onto the brain. Read more

David Fear, Time Out: Every so often, you get the gift of watching an under-the-radar actor bloom into a critical-mass phenomenon before your bloodshot eyes... Read more

Tom Huddleston, Time Out: For fans of Larsson's books this could be the highlight of the cinemagoing year - for the rest of us it's a solid, enjoyable but emotionally unengaging detective story. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: Stieg Larsson's best-selling crime novel has all the makings of a cinematic thriller. As directed by Niels Arden Oplev in Swedish with English subtitles, Tattoo is mesmerizing. Read more

Boyd van Hoeij, Variety: Gives a relatively faithful idea of the novel's ingenious construction but only glimpses of its scathing portrait of Sweden as a corrupt, bankrupt and misogynistic society. Read more

John Patterson, Village Voice: Catch it before the inevitable U.S. remake. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: It's the rare 2 1/2 -hour film that doesn't make you look at your watch once. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is such a film. Read more

Jen Chaney, Washington Post: An engrossing and classically suspenseful story Read more