Every David Fincher Movie, Ranked

Unfortunately, we cannot talk about this one. Well, just a little: One of the more memorable entries in the fantastic cinematic year that was 1999, Fight Club is both one of Fincher's best-known and most-loved films—as well as one of his most divisive (as evidenced by that lower-than-you-might-have-predicted Metascore). Described a decade after its release as "surely the defining cult movie of our time" by Dennis Lim in The New York Times, Fincher's provocative, twisty, and darkly funny adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's novel was a box office bomb—though it performed better on disc—and some critics hated it. (Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan, for example, deemed it a "witless mishmash of whiny, infantile philosophizing and bone-crunching violence.") But for those who got on the film's wavelength, it was one of the year's best.

“Pulls you in, challenges your prejudices, rocks your world and leaves you laughing in the face of an abyss. It's alive, all right. It's also an uncompromising American classic.” —Peter Travers, Rolling Stone