Michael Blomkvist

Although it is already receiving something of a mixed reception--A.O. Scott in the called it a film with "waves of brilliantly orchestrated anxiety and confusion but also long stretches of drab, hackneyed exposition that flatten the atmosphere"--David Fincher's American adaptation of the first novel in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, is unquestionably one of the most anticipated of the holiday movie season. Opening Wednesday, the movie, which stars Daniel Craig (as Michael Blomkvist) and Rooney Mara (Lisbeth Salander), is also being accompanied by a flood of new editions from the book's publisher, Knopf. A

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