Seeing that angst and compelling drama traded in for rather generic thrills, and a plot too overstuffed for its own good, is deeply unfortunate.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 14, 2024

It is a passionless, tedious take on a genre that is driven by passion and excitement, and it drags an iconic character along for the ride.

| Original Score: 3/10 | May 17, 2022

Foy, ever the chameleon, gives a strong performance, but in a role that is underwritten and doesn't service her considerable talent.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 8, 2022

This weak sequel has forgotten to find its own voice and rests heavily on genre tropes that don't belong in a story that celebrates being unabashedly different.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 1, 2021

There's almost no investigative journalism whatsoever; Mikael's history as a reporter seems irrelevant.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 6, 2020

A movie that is similar to "Dragon Tattoo" in name only after scrapping the author (god speed Larsson), director (farewell Fincher) and cast (adios Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig) for an entirely different experience that feels awkward to watch.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 29, 2020

On evidence of this, it is likely that this Lisbeth will suffer a similar fate of Rooney Mara's before her, one of lukewarm commercial reception and eventual abandonment.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 28, 2020

Playing out like a boring Bond stripped of that franchise's knowing humour, the fight sequences are thoroughly unimpressive, as are the snoozesome car chases.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 19, 2020

The Girl In The Spider's Web is nothing like the complex thriller I was expecting it to be, cramming far too much into its runtime and leaving me feeling dissatisfied.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 27, 2020

Apart from Foy's expressive performance, layered with a controlled emotional vulnerability, its plot is extremely one dimensional and predictable. You really don't need to have read the books to figure out.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 27, 2020

What we get is Salander turned into a punk-rock James Bond, which sounds cool on paper, but the execution is deadly dull.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 1, 2020

A faded facsimile of earlier versions of this franchise, "The Girl in the Spider's Web" is a toothless thriller that waters down anything interesting about the lead character and squanders a fantastic cast.

| Original Score: C- | Jun 30, 2020

Instead, the new tale... has too many plot holes and coincidences to be called an assured rebooting of the property and character.

| Oct 18, 2019

The emphasis on action over the general intrigue that the Millenium novels have come to embody ends up cheapening the overall film.

| Sep 25, 2019

In developing the property for a broader audience, the film has essentially removed what made its predecessor so effective.

| Original Score: 4/10 | May 28, 2019

It's a perfectly serviceable actioner that's fronted by one hell of a woman, and features enough exciting (and conveniently timed) set pieces that seem tailor made to please action-ready audiences

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 1, 2019

It's clear that Alvarez really wanted to make a spy thriller, and that sort of template is a very poor fit for this girl and her dragon tattoo, misfiring in spite of a spirited performance by Foy.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Apr 8, 2019

Luckily, the performances across the board and Alvarez's camera tricks beef up the run-of-the-mill plot.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 30, 2019

Elizabeth solander is a larger than life figure and she's grounded in something more meaningful, and you lose parts of that with this film.

| Mar 21, 2019

The movie's such a mess.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 10, 2019