The Girl in the Spider's Web

Elizabeth solander is a larger than life figure and she's grounded in something more meaningful, and you lose parts of that with this film.

I think it suffers to some extent from some creaky dialogue...but the thing that holds it together is that Claire Foy surprisingly convincing.

That's it. That's all that has changed. Foy in the lead role. Otherwise everything else is the same, only worse.

A fast-paced, high-octane espionage action flick with superhero flourishes.

Much as I admire her, Foy is miscast here. She's just too empathetic for a role that requires an almost reptilian lack of emotion; too relatable for a character who needs to be weirdly alien in her responses.

Fede Alvarez is a fine action director, and his exciting set-pieces provide decent compensation for Lisbeth's now omnipotent skills.

It is a passionless, tedious take on a genre that is driven by passion and excitement, and it drags an iconic character along for the ride.

Foy, ever the chameleon, gives a strong performance, but in a role that is underwritten and doesn't service her considerable talent.

This weak sequel has forgotten to find its own voice and rests heavily on genre tropes that don't belong in a story that celebrates being unabashedly different.

There's almost no investigative journalism whatsoever; Mikael's history as a reporter seems irrelevant.