Fight Club: Critic Reviews
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MovieWeb: 18 reviews
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RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews
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Steven Rosen Denver Post (Top Critic)Affliction is a better film, because it brings us into the hearts and minds of its characters rather than just bludgeoning us with its visions.Full Review » 12 years ago
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David Rooney Variety (Top Critic)[A] bold, inventive, sustained adrenaline rush of a movie...Full Review » 4 years ago
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Jay Boyar Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)Fight Club is an empty shout of 'To hell with it all!'Full Review » 12 years ago
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Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)30If the first rule of Fight Club is 'Nobody talks about Fight Club,' a fitting subsection might be 'Why would anyone want to?'Full Review » 12 years ago
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Nick Schager Lessons of Darkness84A shrewd, scintillating work rooted in an investigation of varying degrees of masculinity and extremism.Full Review » 1 year ago
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Charles Cassady Common Sense Media80Lurid, twisted, and violent. Not for kids.Full Review » 1 year ago
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Walter Chaw Film Freak Central75where Taxi Driver sees the fallacy in canonizing Travis Bickle, Fight Club does it without irony.Full Review » 1 year ago
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Radheyan Simonpillai AskMen.com86The 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 Full Review » 3 years ago
Bill Gibron
PopMatters
100
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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3 years ago
Peter Canavese
Groucho Reviews
100
One of the seminal films of the 1990s...just as darkly funny, epic, and psychically wrenching as ever. [Blu-ray]
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3 years ago
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com
92
"Fight Club" is a cinematic Hail-Mary pass from David Fincher that the audience desperately wants to catch.
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3 years ago
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com
60
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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4 years ago
Joe Lozito
Big Picture Big Sound
63
I don't mind a film with a surprise ending but, rather than enhancing the film, the climactic revelation in Fight Club cancels out everything previously seen. In fact, the bitter end of the film is a hypocritical cop-out.
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5 years ago
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
An exciting, dangerous, and intense story.
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6 years ago
Time Out
You can call [it] irresponsible. Or you can call it the only essential Hollywood film of 1999.
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6 years ago
Jason Zingale
Bullz-Eye.com
80
It might not be as controversial as it was back in 1999, but it's definitely just as relevant.
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7 years ago
Robin Clifford
Reeling Reviews
Durden is so intense, focused and honestly violent that the messianic hold he has on his followers is palpable. It's one of the best things that Pitt has done and his performance helps to recommend the film.
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7 years ago
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star
100
One of the greatest films ever made
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7 years ago
Stuart Klawans
Nation
Pitt bronco-rides through the movie, using many of the nutsy-dangerous mannerisms he previously unloosed in 12 Monkeys. It's the performance you'd expect Pitt to give, and still you can't take your eyes off it.
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7 years ago
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
75
...more clever and kinetic than it is profound, more a visceral movie than a think piece.
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7 years ago
Jeffrey Overstreet
Looking Closer
77
In the future, all manner of society's ills in the future will be blamed on this movie. [But] this is a film that exposes evil, not one that glorifies it.
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7 years ago
Judith Egerton
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)
63
It's a movie with all the warmth of a refrigerated meat locker at midnight. And who wants to hang around there?
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8 years ago
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly
Lobs punishing combinations at the flabby midsection of life in the 1990s. But as the film wears on, it's apparent that Fincher can't deliver the knockout blow.
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8 years ago
Jim Shelby
Palo Alto Weekly
75
This is a strange, agonized film--a darkly comic end-of-the-millennium fable with unforgettable performances and visuals. The writing is tight, smart and edgy; there's no question it hits a chord with our consumer-crazed lifestyle.
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9 years ago
David Sterritt
Christian Science Monitor
Undermines any seriousness it might have harbored with an avalanche of smirky cynicism designed to flatter the hipper-than-thou fantasies of adolescent moviegoers.
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9 years ago
