David Fincher’s remake of the first book in Stieg Larsson’s trilogy finds Craig in the role of Mikael Blomqvist, a disgraced reporter who partners up with gifted, antisocial investigator Lisbeth Salander to uncover the truth about a corrupt businessman. Fincher’s film is icy cold, but Craig brings the heat to the relationship between Mikael and Lisbeth, even as he undercuts it with the character’s irrepressible ambition and dishonesty.
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