The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [xrr rating=4.75/5]We live in the Information Age, and David Fincher has become its prophet. Increasingly, his protagonists engage foremost in pursuing and processing information, but even before that, his stylistic signature displayed a hyperawareness of information, reveling in virtuoso techniques and trick shots that lay out data with extreme precision. Even a deceptively minor film like Panic Room is notable … Read More
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest Dir: Daniel Alfredson Rating: 1.7/5.0 Music Box Films 148 Minutes In my reviews of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played With Fire, adaptations of the first two part’s of Stieg Larsson’s wildly popular “Millennium Trilogy” also released this year, I complained of the lurid subject that seemed to … Read More
The Girl Who Played With Fire The Girl Who Played With Fire Dir: Daniel Alfredson Rating: 3.0/5.0 Music Box Films 129 Minutes Most people who read this review will be English speakers. Many of these English speakers probably read at some of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium novels, a posthumous success that has swept the globe like Harry Potter for adults. However, many people who speak English and … Read More
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Dir: Niels Arden Oplev Rating: 3.0/5.0 Music Box Films 152 Minutes While it is best to enter The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo knowing little about the plot, that may be impossible given the near-ubiquity of the source material. The popular book was written by Stieg Larsson, a Swedish journalist who died in 2004 … Read More
