The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

"Leaner, meaner, more high-powered, stylish, and deftly directed."

"A fastidiously grim pulp entertainment that plays like a first-class train ride through progressively bleaker circles of hell."

"A controlled, mesmerising, beautiful thriller scarred by scenes of unshakeable brutality and breathless tension."

"It moves like a mad dog, looks like a hi-def dream and is deliciously cast."

"A bleak but mesmerizing piece of filmmaking."

"This brisk, intelligent thriller lacks social and political commitment."

"It is a muscular, overwhelmingly confident movie – and its brutal violence is thus even tougher to take."

"Gloriously rendered but too impersonal to leave a mark."

"It worked for me."

"Fine American version of the literary sensation delivers everything except that something extra."

"A brilliant franchise movie."

"His film is not for the faint-hearted."

"It isn't a bad movie, but Fincher is capable of better."

"All surface—magnificent, arresting surface, but surface all the same."