THE NEW GILDED AGE (Part 2)
THE NEW GILDED AGE (Part 2)
Posted In: Arts & Entertainment, Movie Reviews, From Issue 701 By: Review Magazine
25th March, 2010 0
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is right on track. It’s a stylish thriller with real complexity, people with interesting faces, and a sensational actress cast as an ambisexual Goth hacker heroine. [Noomi] Rapace's haunting, enigmatic Lisbeth is the element that leaves you eager for the next two installments. She's fantastic, and so is the movie.
This Swedish language crime thriller about a tomboyish punk hacker and ace private investigator who teams up with a disgraced middle-aged journalist to solve a decades-old crime is riveting from start to finish. . Niels Arden Oplev's perfunctory adaptation veers from Visconti's 'The Damned' to Jonathan Demme's 'The Silence of the Lambs' without the decadence or the thrills of either.
Steven Rea wrote in the Philadelphia Inquirer, "The rape and torture scenes, a vivid (and necessary) component of Larsson's book, are rendered with fearless detail in the film. They are neither exploitative nor gratuitous, but they are certainly not easy to watch."
Like a good book, the plot is so engrossing, the characters so rich and complex, the mood of gloom mixed with glimmers of hope so all-encompassing that the thought of its actually ending never occurs to you.
Tunes by the Tridge
Party on McCarty
Fridays at the Fall
Friday Fun Nights
Bridgeport Historical Society Free Concert • Stix & Stone
Museum Tunes featuring The Stapletons wsg MIZNXN
Thursdays at Uptown
Rock the Boat Concert Series
2022 Concerts in the Park
Jazz in the Garden
Hearts & Bones • A Paul Simon Tribute
Pop Evil wig Riot
Santana & Earth, Wind and Fire
Tom Segura – I’m Coming Everywhere World Tour
Lunchtime Concert Series
Chris Stapleton, Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats, Marty Stuart & Madeline Edwards
Halestorm, The Pretty Reckless, The Warning & Lilith Czar
Billy Joel
The Stadium Tour: Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Poison & Joan Jett and The Blackhearts