THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER’S WEB (15)

★★ ★★★ COMPUTER scientist Frans Balder (Stephen Merchant) hires hacker Lisbeth Salander (Claire Foy, pictured) to gain illegal access to the servers of the National Security Agency (NSA) and steal his FireFall application. Lisbeth’s actions attract the attention of NSA agent Edwin Needham (Lakeith Stanfield), who travels to Sweden to retrieve the stolen software and bring the hacker to justice.

The theft is complicated when masked assailants storm Lisbeth’s hi-tech lair and leave her for dead.

The bruised heroine re-establishes contact with journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Sverrir Gudnason) who exploits personal connections to the deputy director of Swedish National Security, to identify the attackers. Lisbeth follows a trail of evidence and realises that Balder’s autistic son (Christopher Convery) is the key to cracking the case.