93
Se7en review
Two detectives chase a killer who stages murders around the seven deadly sins, in a city where it is always raining and never gets dark enough to slee…
★★★★½ 4.8/5
David Fincher
Fincher came to features from music video and advertising, and the precision of that background is visible in every frame he has shot. His films are about systems — media, corporate power, online networks, criminal investigation — and the people who try to operate inside them. He is known for an extraordinary number of takes, immaculate digital post-production, and a cold visual palette that is frequently mistaken for nihilism.
Signature and approach
- Meticulous camera control and locked-down framing
- Digital post-production used with unusual discipline
- Subjects organised around systems and their costs
- Scores that function as soundscapes
- 3Films reviewed
- 91.7Average score
- 1962Born
- AmericanNationality
Films by David Fincher in our collection
Ordered by release date. Every entry links to the full review.
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93
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89
Fight Club review
An insomniac office worker and a soap salesman start a fight club that becomes a movement. The most misread film of its era, and deliberately so.
★★★★½ 4.6/5
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93
The Social Network review
The founding of Facebook told as a deposition drama, with a script that treats every conversation as a battle. Fincher's most perfectly controlled fil…
★★★★½ 4.8/5
Filmography reviewed
Year, genre, runtime and score for each film.
| Film | Year | Genre | Runtime | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Se7en | 1995 | Thriller | 127 min | 93 |
| Fight Club | 1999 | Drama | 139 min | 89 |
| The Social Network | 2010 | Biography | 120 min | 93 |
Reading David Fincher in context
This page collects every film by David Fincher that we have reviewed in full, along with our average score across that body of work. It is not a complete filmography: our library is curated, and we only list films we have written about at length.
For a wider view, the genre hubs place this work alongside films by other directors, and the ranked lists show where these titles sit against the rest of their decade or genre.
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