The Girl in the Spider's Web, settles for being a tension-packed, go-go-go thriller that will pump adrenaline into your nervous system for nearly all of its suspenseful if implausible 117 minutes
once intriguingly strange, Lisbeth Salander returns as a boring action hero; call it a spectacular failure to read the room that the new action-tooled The Girl in the Spider's Web, strips its hero of everything that made her spiky and singular
it's certainly not the most satisfying version of Lisbeth. But it is edgy and action-packed, and Alvarez' direction keeps the tension high through a slew of ever-more-improbable threats to Lisbeth and her allies
a disappointingly safe, by-the-numbers action-thriller; "Spider's Web" will likely be a letdown for fans who once embraced Lisbeth Salander's bold queerness and bleak nihilism
by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone ]
by Joshua Rothkopf [Time Out New York ]
