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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

(Sony, $31)

This “beautifully taut” take on the hit Stieg Larsson novel is “faithful to its source in just about every way that matters,” said The Philadelphia Inquirer. Rooney Mara captures the “damaged, determined soul” of Lisbeth Salander, a computer hacker working to solve the mystery of a missing girl.

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

(Focus, $30)

Gary Oldman, “an actor of great experience and accomplishment,” finally found a movie “that fully deserves him,” said The Wall Street Journal. He utilizes great restraint to imply an amazing range of feelings as a spy who returns from retirement to find a mole in his old agency.

Vanya on 42nd Street

(Criterion, $30)

This collaborative reworking of an Anton Chekhov play “looks even better now” than it did in 1994, said the A.V. Club. In a nearly empty Times Square theater, a cast of actors—including Wallace Shawn and Julianne Moore—perform the play mostly to master it. The film would be director Louis Malle’s last.