Tiny as a sparrow, fierce as an eagle, Lisbeth Salander is one of the great Scandinavian avengers of our time, an angry bird catapulting into the fortresses of power and wiping smiles off the faces of smug, predatory pigs.
A. O. ScottA piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.
A. O. ScottThe camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to conjure visions of the future. But by the time the image reaches the eyes of the viewer, it belongs to the past, taking on the status of something retrieved.
A. O. ScottNot just a timely movie, a great one...Timbuktu feels at once timely and permanent, immediate and essential.
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