From the guitar roar on the Dust Brothers' opening title track through to the thundering drums of Pixies' Where Is My Mind? it is pure synapse-splitting sensory overload and the road that commercial cinema refused to take.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 15, 2024

David Fincher’s adaptation of the Chuck Palahniuk novel is a shrewd and expertly crafted study of the male in crisis.

| May 24, 2023

Perhaps it is postmodern filmmaking, whatever that means. In any case, Fight Club remains the ugliest, most inhuman film since Natural Born Killers.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 7, 2020

The movie demands a certain attention and is not easily dismissed, but there is something deeply unsettling about a work that uncritically espouses brutality as a function of alienation and nonconformity.

| Oct 15, 2019

An outrageous mixture of brilliant technique, puerile philosophizing, trenchant satire and sensory overload, Fight Club is the most incendiary movie to come out of Hollywood in a long time. It's a mess, but one worth fighting about.

| Mar 6, 2018

Oh, for the time when men were men and were encouraged to beat the tar out of one another. That's the world "Fight Club" pines for.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 15, 2015

It’s tremendously directed and performed with brio.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 22, 2013

It is working American Beauty-Susan Faludi territory, that illiberal, impious, inarticulate fringe that threatens the smug American center with an anger that cannot explain itself, can act out its frustrations only in inexplicable violence.

| Apr 22, 2013

Blistering, hallucinatory, often brilliant, the film by David Fincher is a combination punch of social satire and sociopathology.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 22, 2013

Fight Club is an arresting, eventually appalling excursion into social satire by way of punishing violence.

| Apr 22, 2013

A movie that wants to keep its audience unsettled from beginning to end.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 22, 2013

We're meant to take the male bonding and the blood rituals as a protest against the sterility of corporate life and modern design, but Fincher's sadomasochistic kicks overwhelm any possible social critique.

Full Review | Apr 22, 2013

This is American self-absorption at its finest.

| May 11, 2012

A shrewd, scintillating work rooted in an investigation of varying degrees of masculinity and extremism.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 22, 2011

The 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

| Original Score: 86/100 | Nov 26, 2009

A complex, confused look at life in late-'90s America, David Fincher's blood-black comedy Fight Club remains one of the most divisive pictures of the past 20 years.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 24, 2009

[A] bold, inventive, sustained adrenaline rush of a movie...

| Oct 18, 2008

You can call [it] irresponsible. Or you can call it the only essential Hollywood film of 1999.

| Jan 26, 2006

If it had all continued in the vein explored in the first act, it might have become a great film. But the second act is pandering and the third is trickery.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 1, 2003

Delivers a sucker punch to the audience and then pulls the rug out from under it. It is sensational.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 18, 2002