Gone Girl
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: October 3, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
79
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 49 Critic Reviews
Positive:
39
Mixed:
10
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
CineVueDaniel GreenSep 27, 2014
Though some artfulness is dredged up amongst the trash, there's plenty to perturb and perplex. Read full review
60
The New York TimesManohla DargisSep 25, 2014
At its strongest, Gone Girl plays like a queasily, at times gleefully, funny horror movie about a modern marriage, one that has disintegrated partly because of spiraling downward mobility and lost privilege. Yet, as sometimes happens in Mr. Fincher’s work, dread descends like winter shadows, darkening the movie’s tone and visuals until it’s snuffed out all the light, air and nuance. Read full review
58
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerOct 3, 2014
A few of the supporting players, including Kim Dickens, as a suspicious local cop, and Carrie Coon, as Nick’s twin sister, move beyond the formulaic, which is more than can be said for the movie. Read full review
58
IndieWireMichael NordineSep 21, 2014
Fincher likely prides himself on turning coal into diamonds at this point, but Flynn's script can feel so retrograde at times that one wonders whether it might have been better served by a De Palma, Bigelow, or even a Verhoeven — which is to say, a filmmaker less concerned with making the lascivious seem prestigious. Read full review
50
New York PostLou LumenickOct 2, 2014
A glossy, empty and ultimately unsatisfying — if undeniably entertaining — movie. Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn HornadayOct 2, 2014
Gone Girl may get the job done as a dutiful, deliberately paced procedural, but it never quite makes the splash it could have as a thoughtful, timely and thoroughly bracing plunge. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeMark FeeneyOct 1, 2014
Perhaps Flynn, who did the adaptation, has been a little too faithful to her novel. The faux-punchiness of her dialogue doesn’t help matters. The characters sound like people trying to sound like people in the movies and not quite pulling it off. Read full review
50
ObserverRex ReedOct 1, 2014
Preposterous, illogical, senselessly over-plotted and artificial as a ceramic artichoke, David Fincher’s Gone Girl is another splatterfest disguised as a psychological thriller about the disintegration of a murderous marriage that I find one of the year’s grossest disappointments. Read full review
50
The New YorkerAnthony LaneSep 29, 2014
The glum fact is that Gone Girl lacks clout where it needs it most, at its core. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineEd GonzalezSep 27, 2014
There's a comic streak to the film that suggests David Fincher may understand the material as trash, but it's the kind of affectation that only reinforces, rather than dulls, its insults. Read full review
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