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  Review by David Sims ★★ 8

  turns out making a sequel to the first book with the fourth book and getting rid of David Fincher, Rooney Mara, and Daniel Craig wasn't a great idea

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  Review by davidehrlich ★½ 32

  i don't envy anyone having to follow David Fincher, but this is almost BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY bad.

  eschewing the dread and nuance of the previous films (any of them, really), this iteration is — at best — a low-rent James Bond movie that takes a perilously glib approach to psychosexual trauma. more often, it feels like a nü-metal remake of the already godawful MERCURY RISING. between this and HUNTER KILLER, i think i've gotten over any lingering nostalgia for the '90s.

  Alvarez is totally boxed in by Fincher's aesthetic, handcuffed (or sealed in latex) by the severity of his style but also trying to resist it at every turn. Foy… could have been good? maybe? if she were given even the…

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  Review by Sean Baker 20

  I just skimmed through some of the reviews here on Letterboxd and surprised to see how disliked the film is on this site. I actually thought it was a fine addition to the series... much better than the Swedish sequels to the original.

  Anyway, I really like Fede Alvarez and will support what he makes in theaters. He knows how to make great looking films with tight set pieces. Pedro Luque's cinematography is gorgeous. It's one of the best shot films of the year. Claire Foy is a fine Lisbeth Salander but I'll always think of Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth.

  Watched at Cineplex Odeon Intl. Village, Vancouver

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  Review by matt lynch ★½ 9

  Genius move making Fincher's hushed, almost monastic metadata mystery/fetish film into a crappy action movie cartoon complete with cliched vaguely spectrum-y kid and nuclear launch codes for Chrissakes, with Salander as a watered-down feminist vigilante. This is Europacorp bad. Also am I crazy or shouldn't it be THE GIRL IN THE SPIDERS' WEB?

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  Review by alicja ★★½ 2

  hey everyone just wanted to remind you all that rooney mara kept the nipple piercing she had for lisbeth in case she ever had to do a sequel

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  Review by Lucy ★★★ 2

  “every day you chose not to save me”

  a bold statement: i think this has worth. i’m just as surprised as you might be, but when the initial annoyance wore off, i found myself caught up in what it has to offer. the david fincher version is one of my all time favorite films, so naturally it was really hard to adjust to this at first, but then i realized something: i can separate the two and see this for what it is

  it was a weird decision to even go through with making this, the change is overly apparent in every frame and every brick is torn apart and rebuilt into a more standard americanized thriller rather than the…

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★ 6

  frequently stylish but the pivot here from fincher's masterful investigation of historical patriarchal power and violence (and its relationship to the analog/digital landscape) to expensively made DTV actioner is just dire. no obsessive urgency, no grotesque grace; they just dropped in some cloak and dagger plotting, some technobabble nuke bullshit, some bond gadgets and a few setpieces and then called it a day. lisbeth hardly registers as a person here, she rides a motorcycle across a barely frozen lake like she's goddamn ethan hunt! justice for rooney.

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  Review by ♦️•Lily•💋 ★ 1

  pitch meeting for this film:

  producer: ok so we’re going to make a sequel to David Fincher’s Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

  other producer: cool, that film was great

  producer: but Fincher isn’t returning to direct it

  other producer: ok well we can find another great director

  producer: and none of the original cast is returning 

  other producer: wait what-

  producer: and instead of adapting the second book in the series we’re going to do the fourth one

  other producer [crying]: please stop

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  Review by Justine Smith ★★ 11

  Advice from one professional writer to another, select all + delete >>>> infinite backspace on feature length article

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  Review by Lindsey 3

  The tattoo in the poster kind of looks like a chicken to me.

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  Review by Geesuss ★★★★★ 7

  Road To 'Women Talking':

  I went into this expecting a massive disappointment and I found a unique and massively underappreciated underdog of a movie. There is no Fincher, no Mara, no Craig. And while Blomkvist character is so in background that could have been erased, this is Lisbeth's odissey.

  If you have Claire Foy playing the role and putting every inch of her skin in it, you have me already. But the storyline, while directed with not so much style thought, hides multiple hidden layers (a twisted love story between sisters -probably incestuous and with anger for Camile choosing her father instead of Lisbeth-, Lisbeth facing her own "death" thorough the entire film and "rebirth" at the vaccum climax) that…

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  Review by sree ★★ 1

  rooney mara sweetie i'm SO sorry