Tag: alfredson
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Thomas Alfredson’s adaptation of the 1974 spy novel is a must-watch, but unfortunately not for strengths in the plot or execution.
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The first entry in Swedish author Steig Larsson’s best-selling Millennium trilogy became a surprise big-screen hit. The film, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, directed by Niels Arden Oplev, was a near-perfect adaptation of Larsson’s novel. Chilling, reckless and relentlessly compelling, it was a foreign-language film for a mainstream audience, earning a place in multiplexes that…