Every David Fincher Movie Ranked From Worst To Best
2. Fight Club
If undeniably the most controversial film in Fincher's back catalogue, his astonishing mystery thriller Fight Club also happens to nearly be his very best.
A stylistically peerless, breakneck adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's novel, Fight Club takes toxic masculinity to task years before that phrase even entered the public lexicon.
However, many begrudge the fact that a great number of frustrated young men appear to have taken the wrong message away from it - hence the litany of actual fight clubs which opened up in its wake.
Yet between Fincher's gorgeous, CGI-assisted filmmaking, a deliciously, blackly comic script from Jim Uhls, and the trifecta of note-perfect performances from Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, and Helena Bonham Carter, Fight Club might well be the defining film of its era.
A sandblaster to the face of what we all thought studio filmmaking was back in 1999, Fight Club changed the game, and despite many attempts to ape it since, it remains a fierce cinematic singularity.