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

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

[David Fincher] certainly has powerhouse craft when all cylinders are firing -- which they are in this movie... A first-rate neo-noir.

| Nov 29, 2023

[It has] the best fight scene I've seen in a movie in a long, long time. It's thrilling. I really, really dug this.

| Nov 29, 2023

The Killer is an opportunity for America’s most stylish director to reboot, to get back to basics, to come in under two hours.

| Nov 21, 2023

David Fincher strikes a delicious balance with this neo-noir thriller about a methodical hitman: it is one of his slightest but most enjoyable feature films.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2023

Despite a measured performance from Fassbender and a clear vision/understanding of world-building in Fincher’s approach to visual storytelling, The Killer lacks any kind of teeth.

| Nov 17, 2023

David Fincher’s latest thriller, The Killer, is cold to the touch and might even seem impenetrable, but it contains multitudes for anyone interested in finding meaning.

| Nov 17, 2023

David Fincher’s Jeanne Dielman.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2023

The Killer is dead on arrival—a cheerless bit of 21st century pop existentialism

| Nov 16, 2023

Fincher is adept at excoriating the darkness of the human soul, but he's missed his mark with a character so blindly determined to prove he doesn't have one.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 13, 2023

The film is a veritable tone poem on the nature of work in the modern world. The Killer is a simultaneously hollow and profound meditation on the numerous ways identity has been swallowed up and voided by the various demands of commerce and brand.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 13, 2023

The Killer has an old-fashioned feel and still manages to nail its target by bringing dashes of freshness, wit and unpredictability to this well-worn genre.

| Nov 10, 2023

The Killer’s target dodged a bullet. Viewers who skip this film can, too.

| Nov 10, 2023

Leave it to Fincher to find something personal in an ode to impersonality.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 10, 2023

It's Fincher's deliciously depraved conceit that his perfectionist process is not unlike the killer's. In his hands, and a mesmerizing title turn from Fassbinder, what could have been a hitman cliche becomes a tangle of loose ends hauntingly left untied.

| Nov 10, 2023

Everything here is tantalizingly close to calculated perfection that it comes almost as a surprise how The Killer ends up missing its mark.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 9, 2023

I'm not suggesting his story cries out for a sequel, but by the time this very dark comedy reaches its strangely sunny ending, you're curious to see what job this killer — and Fincher himself — might take on next.

| Nov 9, 2023

The Killer is not Fincher’s best; it’s more of an offbeat character study with impressive production values than a fully realized drama.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 9, 2023

The character is boring and so is this movie, but like the supremely skilled Fincher, who can’t help but make images that hold your gaze even as your mind wanders, Fassbender does keep you watching.

| Nov 9, 2023

You’ll eat it up and watch it again, perhaps only to realize that maybe there’s something deeper that’s being said about a general lack of empathy in a short-sighted world where we often feel we just need to get the job done, no matter the toll.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 8, 2023