Every David Fincher Movie Ranked From Worst To Best
5. Mank
Fincher's latest film is surely the most singular and stripped-down of his entire filmography - it's not a bleak thriller, nor does it offer much in near-overwhelming stylistic exuberance.
Mank is a clear passion project for the director, working from a script penned by his own late father Jack in the 1990s, covering the near-mythic quest of booze-filled screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (a superb Gary Oldman) to complete the script to Orson Welles' Citizen Kane.
Without question, this is the trickiest and least-accessible film in Fincher's oeuvre to general audiences, given that it makes only the most base concession to viewer knowledge (or lack thereof).
But for lovers of Citizen Kane and Old Hollywood in general, there are rewards-a-plenty to be found here, between the snappily witty dialogue, outstanding supporting cast, and gorgeously rendered cinematography.
Though likely to end up one of the more divisive entries in Fincher's filmography, and it's not necessarily a film you'll be immediately keen to revisit, it's absolutely worthy of the movie whose shadow it unavoidably stands in.