100
Portland Oregonian by Shawn Levy
Fight Club -- cue the blurb machine -- is a knockout.
Fight Club
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- Germany,
- United States
- 1999
- · 139m
Director
David Fincher
Cast
Edward Norton,
Brad Pitt,
Helena Bonham Carter,
Meat Loaf,
Jared Leto,
Zach Grenier
Genre
Drama
A man, thoroughly dissatisfied with his life, attends various support group meetings in a search for meaning, though he does not share any of the struggles that those in the support groups have. From a house explosion to debilitating insomnia, his life becomes increasingly worse. Everything changes when he forms a fight club with charismatic soap salesman Tyler Durden.
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100
San Francisco Chronicle by Bob Graham
Delivers a sucker punch to the audience and then pulls the rug out from under it. It is sensational. It is also grimly funny.
100
Philadelphia Inquirer by Carrie Rickey
A knockout...So feverish is Fight Club...that thermometer contact might make mercury shatter.
100
Film.com by Gemma Files
It always surprises, never bores. It's also just damn good, on every possible level -- so go see it. Now.
100
TNT RoughCut by Graham Verdon
Frighteningly intelligent and visually stunning film.
100
Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
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.
91
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Paula Nechak
It assaults us with violence, brutality, sexual confusion and anarchy and has enough bruising, punishing humor to keep us laughing with relief.
90
Variety by David Rooney
Bold, inventive, sustained adrenaline rush of a movie.
89
Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov
Fight Club's dirty little secret is it's one of the best comedies of the decade.
88
San Francisco Examiner by Wesley Morris
It's the rawest, most hot-blooded, provocatively audacious, dangerous movie to come of out Hollywood this year.
80
The New York Times by Janet Maslin
The sardonic, testosterone-fueled science fiction of Fight Club touches a raw nerve.
80
The New York Times by Elvis Mitchell
The sardonic, testosterone-fueled science fiction of Fight Club touches a raw nerve.
75
Miami Herald by René Rodríguez
As a piece of storytelling, Fight Club is a bit of a dud: It's a good 15 minutes too long, and the tension doesn't build the way you wish it would.
70
Washington Post by Stephen Hunter
A provocative experience that lights you up even as it brutalizes you. And I don't even like Brad Pitt very much.
63
USA Today by Mike Clark
It's fun to talk about...but the price you pay is enduring its excesses and pummeled-home thematic points.
63
Baltimore Sun by Ann Hornaday
Keeps filmgoers wondering what will happen next even as they are repulsed by what's happening in front of them.
50
Salon by Andrew O'Hehir
But imagination and energy are often not enough. On balance, this is the dumbest of the entries in Hollywood's anti-consumerist new wave.
50
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
But the second act is pandering and the third is trickery, and whatever Fincher thinks the message is, that's not what most audience members will get.
50
Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
This exercise in mainstream masochism, macho posturing, and designer-grunge fascism is borderline ridiculous. But it also happens to be David Fincher's richest movie.
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