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Fight Club

Mischief. Mayhem. Soap.

1999 · 2h 19m · R Drama, Thriller
Directed by David Fincher

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Overview

A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.

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All reviews
81%
Tomatometer
Fresh

It is working American Beauty-Susan Faludi territory, that illiberal, impious, inarticulate fringe that threatens the smug American center with an anger that cannot explain itself, can act out its frustrations only in inexplicable violence.

Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
Fresh

Blistering, hallucinatory, often brilliant, the film by David Fincher is a combination punch of social satire and sociopathology.

Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
Rotten

Fight Club is an arresting, eventually appalling excursion into social satire by way of punishing violence.

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
Rotten

We're meant to take the male bonding and the blood rituals as a protest against the sterility of corporate life and modern design, but Fincher's sadomasochistic kicks overwhelm any possible social critique.

David Denby, New Yorker
Fresh

This is American self-absorption at its finest.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

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