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If it has a saving grace it's that it's not two hours long, and one hopes that those involved had some nice evenings out in Turin while filming.

Like Rear Window if James Stewart's character had doubted himself, the film becomes a tangle of paranoid possibilities.

Rapace delivers a powerhouse performance that carries it from beginning to end.

A nice study in group dynamic.

The ingredients are here, jumbled up, too confusing to fit the restrictions of a single screenplay

Dumb Men Dead would be a more apt title.

Bob may have the beefed up body of a bouncer but Hardy continually emphasises his softer, hesitant side, his body language screaming flight even though he is built to fight.

Far less conventional than the first film, and less accessible with it, The Girl Who Played With Fire is nevertheless strangely compelling.

Features an ending that leaves the softened finale of the first film looking as if it were simply intended to draw in unwary viewers in search of something altogether more conventional.

Whilst the story is ultimately fairly straightforward thriller stuff, the things it has to say are anything but. It's also a stunningly beautiful, atmospheric piece of work.

This is such a buttoned up character study that it feels more like a riff than an exploration.

Lacks all charm.

This big-screen epic is immersive less for its binocular vistas than for their impossibly grand scale

In general, the action feels either overly restrained or pushed too far, with Adler rarely finding the sweet spot in between.

Released for the Christmas audience, this film does have a touch of the pantomime about it.

It presents a radically different cinematic language, childlike, initially amoral, lyrical.