The Girl in the Spider web: reviews

What the critics say

• VarietyJay Weissberg Lisbeth Salander has been reduced to a Batgirl-like figure with a tacked-on psychological profile (...) It delivers some big-bang thrills in a slick production that will do hefty business. Read
• The Hollywood ReporterDeborah Young Many thrills, few reasons to care (...) It is certainly not the most satisfying version of Lisbeth. But it is edgy and action-packed, and Alvarez? direction keeps the tension high. Read
• IndiewireKate Erbland Claire Foy is the best Lisbeth Salander yet in a sequel too muddled to leave its own mark (...) The story sinks under its own overwrought weight. Read
• The WrapWilliam Bibbiani 'The Girl in the Spider?s Web' is such an absorbing airplane novel of a movie that you half expect to walk out of the theater and into O?Hare International. Your flight was on time, and the turbulence was totally badass. Read
• The GuardianBenjamin Lee It?s watchable enough (...) Forcing Salander into Bond?s shoes feels like a misstep, her intellect and survivalism suited to far more interesting pursuits. Read
• Screen DailyTim Grierson Although it?s directed with slick skill (...) [it] ends up feeling like so many modern movie properties, which get revamped and rebooted due to corporate commercial interests that minimise what made the material special. Read