The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

  • 87% of critics liked it
    (212 reviews)

  • 88% of users liked it
    (93,934 ratings)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first film in Columbia Pictures' three-picture adaptation of Stieg Larsson's literary blockbuster The Millennium Trilogy. Directed by David Fincher and starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, the film is based on the first novel in the trilogy, which altogether… More

Play Trailer

R, 2 hr. 37 min.
Directed By
David Fincher
Written By
Steven Zaillian
Genres
Mystery & Suspense, Drama
In Theaters
Dec 20, 2011 Wide
On DVD
Mar 20, 2012
Sony Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune News Service

    Best picture? Best director? It's certainly better than some of the nominated films. But Fincher & Co. lose points every time this movie is nothing more than a slightly -- just ever so slightly -- inferior version of the Swedish films.

  • Joe Baltake, Passionate Moviegoer

    Fincher's 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo': Retrofuturism

  • Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

    It's certainly worth seeing if you missed the original. If you saw it, however, there's no way of unseeing it, and nothing in the new one to top it.

  • Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

    Fincher's Dragon Tattoo is a faithful adaptation that brings the dazzle but shortchanges on the daring... It's gloriously rendered but too impersonal to leave a mark.

  • Eric D. Snider, Film.com

    What he has delivered is adequate, but it doesn't have any flavor - and of all the things Fincher is, "bland" is not usually one of them.

Read all 24 critic reviews

Critic ratings and reviews powered by RottenTomatoes.com

Fresh (60% or more critics rated the movie positively)

Rotten (59% or fewer critics rated the movie positively)

Featured Audience Ratings

  • Sanjay R


    This movie had a nice, but slow developing story with an awkward conclusion. Rooney Mara turns in a good performance and has good chemistry with Craig. This movie didn't blow my mind, but it didn't totally disappoint either. I just expected more.

  • Albert K


    Finally, after all the rave and talk about the series, I decided to step in and see what all the fuss has been about. My verdict? It's a glorious rendition of a wildly interesting thriller -- no doubt about that, but it fails to leave a mark of a trilogy that is memorable by any… More

  • Anthony L


    I liked this version just as much as the original, not surprising as they're pretty much the same film. For all the things I preferred in David Fincher's version, there are just as many things I preferred in Niels Arden Oplev's. Still, I liked it, it is a visually… More

  • ♥˩ƳИИ &


    Cast: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgård, Steven Berkoff, Robin Wright, Yorick van Wageningen, Joely Richardson, Geraldine James, Goran Visnjic, Donald Sumpter, Ulf Friberg Director: David Fincher Summary: When a young computer hacker is tasked with… More

  • Mike S


    Who better to re-imagine Stieg Larsson's crime noir than the ingeniously gifted David Fincher? His own take on the story, involving the riveting murder investigations of journalist Mikael Blomqvist and goth-punk hacker Lisbeth Salander, is true to the source material, while… More

Read all 20 featured audience ratings

Cast

See full cast

Trailers & Clips

facebook_logo

Now you can share movies with your friends on Facebook!

  • Discover movies your friends are watching
  • Keep track of what you want to see
  • Add your reviews to your Timeline