Director David Fincher's film adaptation of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” earned solid early reviews on Tuesday following its London premiere, and the studio behind it pushed up the release in a crowded holiday season. Columbia Pictures said the U.S. opening now will take place on December 20, one day ahead of its previous announced debut. The shift should please fans of the movie based on a series of popular books by Swedish author Stieg Larsson telling about a journalist and a sexually abused computer hacker who band together in search of a killer. Early reviews of Fincher's widely-anticipated “Dragon Tattoo,” which follows a Swedish film version of the film and stars Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig, were generally positive with critics especially praising Mara's performance. New Yorker magazine's David Denby called the movie, “a bleak but mesmerizing piece of filmmaking” and said it was “Mara's shot at stardom.” __
