David Fincher, 2011

The long-awaited Americanized version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo became one of the latest movies to explore the darker side of killers, as if there is a light side. If you like this movie, you should have read all three bestselling books by Stieg Larsson and watched all three movies, the Swedish-Danish versions. The English version is quite interesting once you get

The films of Swedish master Bergman are a mixed bag, as he can often produce what I consider art, as in The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries, then he can descend into the angst and inner hell of characters in crisis - films like Cries and Whispers and Scenes From a Marriage almost sent me out of the theater. He is definitely a visual master worth studying, by anyone interested in cinema, but