The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Noomi Rapace made her international breakthrough as the truth-seeking, vengeful, and nicotine-addicted hacker Lisbeth Salander in this raw crime thriller. Investigative journalist Mikael (Michael Nyqvist) is hired to unravel a forty-year-old murder mystery on an island of grand houses and Nazis. Together with the sharp-eyed and defiant Lisbeth, he takes on an investigation that resembles a family tree more than a case file. Niels Arden Oplev’s Guldbagge Award–winning adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s novel contains disturbing scenes of abuse and is a tense story of survival. Rapace and Nyqvist form an irresistible on-screen duo, and the film delivers exactly what its Swedish title promises: men who hate women.

• Ida Hofsten