Fight Club Reviews
Guardian [UK]
Fight Club jettisons its sense of humour 60 minutes in, and, so far from satirising the tiresome "crisis of masculinity" stuff sloshing around the airwaves either side of the Atlantic, the film simply endorses it.
Total Film
Wildly inventive, exceptionally cast and undeniably controversial, there's an endless list of subtexts and viewpoints which will fuel student pub debates for years.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Top CriticIt is working American Beauty-Susan Faludi territory, that illiberal, impious, inarticulate fringe that threatens the smug American center with an anger that cannot explain itself, can act out its frustrations only in inexplicable violence.
Blistering, hallucinatory, often brilliant, the film by David Fincher is a combination punch of social satire and sociopathology.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Fight Club is an arresting, eventually appalling excursion into social satire by way of punishing violence.
Baltimore Sun
A movie that wants to keep its audience unsettled from beginning to end.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
We're meant to take the male bonding and the blood rituals as a protest against the sterility of corporate life and modern design, but Fincher's sadomasochistic kicks overwhelm any possible social critique.
7M Pictures
There's many levels of brilliance to this film, from the script to the acting to the cinematography to the overall directing.
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| Original Score: 4/5
This is American self-absorption at its finest.
Lessons of Darkness
A shrewd, scintillating work rooted in an investigation of varying degrees of masculinity and extremism.
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| Original Score: A-
Common Sense Media
Lurid, twisted, and violent. Not for kids.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Film Freak Central
where Taxi Driver sees the fallacy in canonizing Travis Bickle, Fight Club does it without irony.
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| Original Score: 3/4
AskMen.com
The last great male-centric movie of the last millennium just arrived on a spectacular new Blu-ray disc for its 10th anniversary, providing the opportunity to relish every aspect of David Fincher's ultimate dissection of Gen-X masculinity. Fight Club
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| Original Score: 86/100
Slant Magazine
A complex, confused look at life in late-'90s America, David Fincher's blood-black comedy Fight Club remains one of the most divisive pictures of the past 20 years.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
PopMatters
Fight Club is still today a definitive film, a statement as strong as any rock anthem and twice as packed with power chords.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Groucho Reviews
One of the seminal films of the 1990s...just as darkly funny, epic, and psychically wrenching as ever. [Blu-ray]
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| Original Score: 4/4
ColeSmithey.com
"Fight Club" is a cinematic Hail-Mary pass from David Fincher that the audience desperately wants to catch.
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| Original Score: A
[A] bold, inventive, sustained adrenaline rush of a movie...
eFilmCritic.com
May also be yet another example of a book that was just fine as a book -- that didn't need to be made into a film.
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| Original Score: 3/5
