The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2010)

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  • Opened March 19, 2010 
  • 2 hr 32 min
  • R | disturbing violent content including rape, grisly images, sexual material, nudity and language

  • Parents: Common Sense Media says not for kids. More on child suitability

  • Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her beloved uncle is convinced it was murder and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) and the tattooed and troubled but resourceful computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) to investigate. When the pair link the disappearance of Harriet to a number of grotesque murders from almost forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history. The Vangers are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre, Sven-Bertil Taube, Peter Haber, Peter Andersson, Marika Lagercrantz, Ingvar Hirdwall
  • Director: Niels Arden Oplev
  • Genres: Art House/Foreign, Suspense/Thriller

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by hicksca86

Loved the american version and was told I had to see the Swedish version. Great thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat and wanting more....

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Philadelphia Inquirer
| Steven Rea

Rife with nightmarishly violent and horrific behavior. It's intense, graphic, frightening. Read full review

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Rolling Stone
| Peter Travers

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. Read full review

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Wall Street Journal
| Joe Morgenstern

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 full review

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San Francisco Chronicle
| Walter Addiego

A potboiler but entertaining enough to rise above its flaws. Read full review

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A scene from "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo."