Every David Fincher Movie, Ranked
One of the most critically acclaimed film directors of the past three decades, David Fincher has made 11 features to date—each written by a different screenwriter. With his latest film, the Oscar hopeful Mank, soon to launch on Netflix, we are taking the opportunity to rank all of the director's films from worst to best according to their Metascores, which reflect the critical consensus for each film.
While Fincher has spent much of the past decade working in television, he returned to feature filmmaking in 2020 for the first time in six years with a black-and-white biopic that follows alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) as he navigates a tricky relationship with director Orson Welles (Tom Burke) while attempting to complete the screenplay for Citizen Kane. A decades-long passion project for the director, Mank's own screenplay was written by Fincher's father, Jack Fincher, shortly before his death. Expect numerous Oscar nominations.
“At first blush, Mank isn’t your typical David Fincher flick. Yes, it’s gorgeously mounted and meticulously crafted. But it doesn’t feel like Fincher’s other movies. And yet, when you look closer…it does. Because like all great Fincher films, Mank is about obsession. The obsession with getting something right. The obsession with creating good art. The obsessions with being remembered long after the whole world has faded to black.” —Chris Evangelista, Slashfilm
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