Every David Fincher Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

Fincher made sure to follow up Alien 3 with an extremely assured sophomore feature, albeit one which once again saw him butting heads with the studio, this time to ensure that the bleaker-than-bleak ending made the cut.

Thankfully in this case he had Brad Pitt ready to go to bat for him, and so Seven largely turned out as the both director and actor had hoped.

In many ways the prototypical Fincher movie, Seven is aggressively grim, absolutely sodden in moody atmosphere, and unafraid to shirk genre conventions.

Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, and late arrival Kevin Spacey make for a superbly-matched trio in a thriller which transcends its potentially trope-heavy form to become one of the most heady, literate, and challenging films of its kind ever made.

The ultimate victory for Fincher might be that, despite having to fight tooth and nail to keep that head-in-the-box ending, Seven went down a storm with audiences and remained his highest-grossing film for over a decade.