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Lethal new 'Girl' spins a dull web

Lisbeth Salander now has a pet - a lizard, to be precise. Lisbeth, lizard: I suppose a salamander also would have been apropos. But the choice feels especially fitting for this most reptilian of 21st-century pop-punk heroines, who sports a massive black tattoo of a dragon on her back and tends to skitter like a critter in the shadows of the grim underworld that spawned her.

We get a glimpse of Lisbeth's brutal origins in "The Girl in the Spider's Web," or, as the one-sheets are calling it, "The Girl in the Spider's Web: A New Dragon Tattoo Story." By any title, the movie is an expertly crafted

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