An interesting and well-sourced documentary that probes a largely unfamiliar side of a world-famous author, “Stieg Larsson: The Man Who Played With Fire” is nevertheless hobbled by a lack of critical introspection. Polished, engaging, and altogether relevant, the effort doesn’t challenge its subject, or ask the viewer to do much but admire him. It takes all of thirty minutes to pull this last trick off, leaving an hour-plus of filler to bolster the best-selling writer’s legend via a straightforward hagiography exercise.

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