The long-awaited Hollywood remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), by director David Fincher, came with warnings from its lead actor, Daniel Craig, that it contained very violent material, and was for adult eyes only. The film’s reviewers duly noted its graphic and ‘slick’ violence (Scott 2011; Phillips 2011) but it is rather surprising how the rape and revenge scenes — which are central to the film and to the Millennium trilogy as a whole — are elided in the film’s critical reception in North America and the UK. Sexual violence is not seriously discussed, debated, or indeed in some cases even mentioned, in the film’s reviews, possibly because at this stage in the cultural retelling of the bestselling Millennium trilogy, the story is so familiar.