Movies Adapted from Novels That Ended up Being Better Than the Book

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2009)

Stieg Larsson’s posthumous The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series features an abundance of superfluous exposition, which the 2009 film adaptation narrows and refines in favor of directing attention toward Lisbeth Salander. The 2011 American version is still better than the novel, but not as good as the Swedish one.

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