The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018) poster
2018 · action · crime · thriller · spy

The Girl in the Spider's Web

Directed by Fede Álvarez1h 55m2018
ElsewhereIMDb6.154kRT38%Metacritic43
  • heavy
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • twisty
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Heavy, breathless, extreme action / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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After being enlisted to recover a dangerous computer program, hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist find themselves caught in a web of spies, cybercriminals and corrupt government officials.

Our read · The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · crime · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a sleek Claire Foy hacker thriller even if it softens Salander's edge.

ends triumphantyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 6attention 3/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencechild perilsexual violence

Skip it tonightSkip if you loved Fincher's Dragon Tattoo and demand that same icy grit.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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