The Girl in the Spider's Web
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: November 9, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
43
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 42 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
22
Negative:
10
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiNov 8, 2018
A slow trudge devoid of suspense and adrenaline. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzNov 8, 2018
It isn’t hard to find all the many ways in which this film exhausts both itself and Lisbeth. It is time, already, to give this Girl a rest. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiNov 7, 2018
The worst thing about The Girl in the Spider’s Web — the element likely to enrage most fans of the franchise — is how it betrays its central character by eradicating almost every aspect that made her so initially fascinating. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeTy BurrNov 7, 2018
And that’s what The Girl in the Spider’s Web is: soulless, bloodless product. Subtitled “A Dragon Tattoo Story,” it exists almost solely to drive a stake in the ground for the further franchising of author Stieg Larsson’s “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.” Read full review
30
The AtlanticDavid SimsNov 9, 2018
Rest assured, in The Girl in the Spider’s Web, Lisbeth Salander saves the day, and she looks cool doing it. But this is a story so slick that she’d be rolling her eyes if she watched it. Read full review
30
The New York TimesManohla DargisNov 7, 2018
Alvarez tries to pep things up with chases, near escapes, dramatic rescues, fetish wear and female nudity. But the whole thing is a bummer, at times risible. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleNov 6, 2018
Foy is anything but mysterious or feral. Rooney Mara and Noomi Rapace, who previously played this role, seemed appropriately weird, but weird depends on hiding something, and Foy hides nothing. Read full review
20
SlateSam AdamsNov 13, 2018
For Alvarez, Lisbeth Salander is an icon first and last, which is to say she never feels like an actual person. Here, she’s just a Goth version of James Bond, and if this is Alvarez’s audition for the next Bond movie, then give him the job — he’s exactly the kind of director with style to burn and not too many ideas who you wouldn’t mind seeing donate two years of his career to an aging franchise. Read full review
12
Slant MagazineGreg CwikNov 6, 2018
Fede Álvarez’s film suffers from a compulsion to be capital-C cool, and all of its ostensibly stylish shots are untethered to any semblance of a sustained reality. Read full review
0
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternNov 8, 2018
The stars were misaligned from the start for this frantic, turgid thriller. That’s no knock on Ms. Foy, who might have surprised us if she’d had a different director working from a different script under a different set of studio imperatives that didn’t involve extracting blood from a very cold stone. Read full review
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