Bad Girls’ Revenge

Can we please have a moratorium on serial killer, Holocaust and child-abuse combos? Too soon after Shutter Island, the Swedish film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo arrives with its preposterous plot combining all those elements. The result: a nearly three-episode-length film of TV’s Cold Case, featuring a punk-goth, fish-out-of-water heroine Lisabeth Salander (Noomi Rapace). She’s a computer whiz who helps a journalist investigate a financial crime that sprang from unsolved murders of teenage girls beginning four decades ago. Read more