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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
2009
· Movie
· 147 min
C
MEANRANK
68/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2687
- IMDb #1531
- Rotten Tomatoes #3158
- Metacritic #2465
- Letterboxd #2029
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3647
+6 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2911
- Metacritic Critics #2459
- Metacritic Audience #2536
- Kinopoisk #2059
- AlloCiné #1570
- Trakt #1329
Every rating
53–75
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 53, highest is Trakt on 75. Critics average 56, everyone else 71.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must prove her innocence. In doing this she plays against powerful enemies and her own past.
Details
- Director
- Daniel Alfredson
- Writer
- Ulf Ryberg
- Based on
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest by Stieg Larsson
- Studio
- Nordisk Film Denmark, Yellow Bird, ZDF, SVT
- Released
- 27 November 2009
- Country
- Denmark, Germany, Sweden
- Language
- Swedish
- Runtime
- 147 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $4.0M
- Box office
- $43.5M
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