The Killer might not be among David Fincher’s best works but it does stand out for its performances and technical excellence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 24, 2024

The Killer possesses many of Fincher’s traits but falls short of being truly satisfying. Whether that is the intention or not, the detachment and indifference which goes hand in glove with this assassin, robs The Killer of something essential.

| Nov 20, 2024

A slick, tongue-in-cheek take on the hitman movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 18, 2024

“The Killer” is a slickly crafted beast that leaves you clutching your seat as its psychotic protagonist follows his mission through to its predictably bloody conclusion.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 19, 2024

The Killer is not a good film, it is misguided from beginning to end. Why should anyone care about the central character or most of the others?

| Jul 11, 2024

It's pure Fincher on all fronts, and that's reason to rejoice.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 5, 2024

The Killer is David Fincher playing to his cold and precise strengths, to a mostly positive execution.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 2, 2024

This is the worst dressed, most haggard cinematic assassin in recent memory, with the ugliest beach villa.

| May 29, 2024

The Killer does provide a fine showcase for some expert close-up fight choreography, but the same attention to detail doesn't extend to the film's contrived, confusing plot and lazy stock characters.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 27, 2024

It plays like a John Wick flick for people who think they’re too good for a John Wick flick.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 12, 2024

The Killer evaporates before your eyes, undone by an obtrusive voiceover narration that undermines its sleek minimalism at nearly every turn.

| Mar 11, 2024

Just like only David Fincher knows how to do it. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 23, 2024

A stark and stylish hit man drama that makes maximum use of the magnetism of Michael Fassbender.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 15, 2024

Even the fact that the film itself is a technical marvel, sleek perfection from start to finish, is part of the gag.

| Jan 4, 2024

The Killer is a self-referential work in which Fincher acknowledges his own reputation as a controlling director and digs under the surface to find the quivering child beneath. He’s there, but you have to look for him.

| Jan 3, 2024

The Killer feels like the Rosetta Stone for David Fincher: the core of his entire thesis as an artist.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 1, 2024

A satisfying film, yet I can't tell whether Fincher appreciates that his variations on the formula are still formula.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 29, 2023

An uneven revenge thriller without the emotional depth to match its visual prowess. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 29, 2023

In "The Killer,” a superb Fassbender is at the heart of almost every frame of the film. You could call it a Shakespearean performance. His acting in the thought-provoking, existential movie is a tour-de-force.

| Dec 29, 2023

Death, “The Killer” seems to say, is just another commodity — like office space at WeWork or a McDonald’s hamburger — and Fincher depicts Fassbender’s assassin as the Grim Reaper as the ultimate vulture capitalist.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 23, 2023