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Twitter Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

September 13, 2021July 13, 2010 by Culture Snob

‘Dragon Tattoo’ has a damaged, sharp heroine; compelling depravity; a fair mystery; and no fat. But it’s oddly amorphous and fixated on rape

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