To satiate your curiosity, the list of appropriate adjectives of what follows in the second and third acts would include twisted, dark, seething, shocking, disturbing, unsettling, rich, creepy, and engrossing. You’ll see.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 14, 2024

A masterful adaptation led by a career-best performance from Rosamund Pike.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 7, 2024

Gone Girl is a contemporary classic. A great Fincher film with two stellar leads performances (seriously, Affleck is doing great work playing off his own public persona). Flynn's work is like catnip.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 3, 2024

The makers want you to relax—maybe even curse under your breath—and feel like you’re in control until they rudely pull the rug off your feet.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 9, 2024

The film is a character study, an analysis of gender norms with a regressive, problematic underbelly that could easily be missed because the movie is so darn entertaining.

| Jun 12, 2024

Without prescriptions or clichés, Fincher manages to show the lights and shadows of the two central characters: the perfect marriage of the common man and the femme fatale. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 13, 2023

Tonally sloppy. Things happen to Ben Affleck; Ben Affleck doesn't make things happen.

| Aug 31, 2023

Yet another evidence of David Fincher's masterful visual filmmaking. With seamless editing, a memorable score, and fantastic camera work, Gone Girl is technically magnificent, but it's Gillian Flynn's debut screenplay that steals the spotlight.

| Original Score: A | Jul 24, 2023

The mystery won't let up. Because the movie and the book formulate deeper doubts that, free from the boundaries of a procedural, allow us to generate (bitter) reflections on conjugal love. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 11, 2023

Shocking and delightfully sick, Gone Girl highlight’s America’s fascination with pop culture and the showboating of marriage bliss.

| Jun 23, 2023

... as smart as it is compelling, a wild ride as a mystery and a wickedly entertaining portrait of a marriage between two people who really don’t know each other.

| Feb 21, 2023

I’d love to watch it again, but I’m not sure there’s much to take ideologically from Gone Girl; no one should be proud of anything we might learn about ourselves from this.

| Jan 24, 2023

The visual presentation is moody and comfortless yet perfectly appropriate. And the music from Fincher favorites Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor creates atmospheres of tension.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 21, 2022

More than the poetry of misdirection, more than disappearances or curdling doubt, more than sinister motives or cunning manipulation, and more shocking than a singularly violent, bloody death, David Fincher's Gone Girl is a portrait of marriage.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 18, 2022

Employing crisp cinematography, atmospheric sound design, and an incredibly effective score, Fincher manages to utilize many of these crafts to create an engaging premise that sells an intriguing thematic insight.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 27, 2022

A brilliant example of a book-to-film adaptation that managed to stay faithful to the novel, while also injecting the story with its own inventive style.

| Sep 3, 2021

Fincher combines a maze-like plot with brutal drama to create an unmissable thriller.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 26, 2021

The dirty little secret of Gone Girl is that Amy never hated men as so many have alleged. Women had always been the true targets of her disdain.

| Mar 19, 2021

Not great art, but it is an artfully made potboiler with memorable performances and slick direction that will keep you guessing until the end.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 2, 2021

Gone Girl not only entertains, but engages the viewer. This is one creepy masterpiece.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 31, 2021