An engrossing and classically suspenseful story full review

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a handsome thriller, anchored by an arresting performance in the title role by Noomi Rapace. full review

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. full review

A bracing survey course on the mystery genre set in a Scandinavian landscape as cold as a killer's kiss. full review

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. full review

You don't mess with Lisbeth Salander. And you'd do well not to miss her, either. full review

The mismatched leads make a compelling pair, and director Niels Arden Oplev keeps the action relatively tight. full review

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo grapples with far more than "whodunit." And it does a handy job of answering that question, too. full review

There's a lot to revel in, be provoked by and obsess over. full review

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. full review

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. full review

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. full review

Noomi Rapace more or less looks the part that the filmmakers don't let her fully play. full review

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. full review

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. full review

A finely plotted, stylishly photographed and brilliantly acted whodunit that clocks in at 2 1/2 hours but never seems long. full review

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. full review

There's nothing calming about director Niels Arden Oplev's style, which is fast and furious and smartly mirrors content. full review

Those who stick it out will see an especially dark murder mystery that presents Swedish society as corrupt and profoundly antagonistic to women. full review

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. full review