100 | Bob Graham |
Delivers a sucker punch to the audience and then pulls the rug out from under it. It is sensational. It is also grimly funny. |
Read More: San Francisco Chronicle |
100 |
Fight Club -- cue the blurb machine -- is a knockout. |
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100 | Gemma Files |
It always surprises, never bores. It's also just damn good, on every possible level -- so go see it. Now. |
Read More: Film.com |
100 | Carrie Rickey |
A knockout...So feverish is Fight Club...that thermometer contact might make mercury shatter. |
Read More: Philadelphia Inquirer |
91 | Paula Nechak |
It assaults us with violence, brutality, sexual confusion and anarchy and has enough bruising, punishing humor to keep us laughing with relief. |
Read More: Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
90 | David Rooney |
Bold, inventive, sustained adrenaline rush of a movie. |
Read More: Variety |
89 | Marc Savlov |
Fight Club's dirty little secret is it's one of the best comedies of the decade. |
Read More: Austin Chronicle |
88 | Wesley Morris |
It's the rawest, most hot-blooded, provocatively audacious, dangerous movie to come of out Hollywood this year. |
Read More: San Francisco Examiner |
80 | Elvis Mitchell |
The sardonic, testosterone-fueled science fiction of Fight Club touches a raw nerve. |
Read More: The New York Times |
80 | Robert Horton |
Never less than dazzling to look at, and the scorching humor keeps it alive from scene to scene. |
Read More: Film.com |
80 | Maitland McDonagh |
A brilliantly realized series of sucker punches, a philosophical howl disguised as a muscular guy movie. |
Read More: TV Guide Magazine |
75 | Rene Rodriguez |
As a piece of storytelling, Fight Club is a bit of a dud: It's a good 15 minutes too long, and the tension doesn't build the way you wish it would. |
Read More: Miami Herald |
75 | Jay Carr |
Begins with that invigoratingly nervy and imaginative buzz. But its chic indictment of empty materialist values fizzles. |
Read More: Boston Globe |
75 | Lawrence Toppman |
It's visually surrealistic, acted with integrity, so brutal in spots that I averted my eyes. |
Read More: Charlotte Observer |
70 | Stephen Hunter |
A provocative experience that lights you up even as it brutalizes you. And I don't even like Brad Pitt very much. |
Read More: Washington Post |
63 | Mike Clark |
It's fun to talk about...but the price you pay is enduring its excesses and pummeled-home thematic points. |
Read More: USA Today |
60 | Manohla Dargis |
On a purely visual level, it's the most powerful and viscerally exciting movie to come out of Hollywood this year. Which doesn't mean that it's all good. |
Read More: L.A. Weekly |
50 | Jonathan Rosenbaum |
This exercise in mainstream masochism, macho posturing, and designer-grunge fascism is borderline ridiculous. But it also happens to be David Fincher's richest movie. |
Read More: Chicago Reader |
50 | Roger Ebert |
But the second act is pandering and the third is trickery, and whatever Fincher thinks the message is, that's not what most audience members will get. |
Read More: Chicago Sun-Times |
50 | Andrew O'Hehir |
But imagination and energy are often not enough. On balance, this is the dumbest of the entries in Hollywood's anti-consumerist new wave. |
Read More: Salon.com |
50 | David Sterritt |
Undermines its serious undertones with an avalanche of smirky cynicism designed to flatter the hipper-than-thou fantasies of adolescent moviegoers. |
Read More: Christian Science Monitor |
50 | J. Hoberman |
This malevolently gleeful satire...is extremely funny, surprisingly well- acted, and boldly designed...at least until its steel-and-chrome soufflé falls apart. |
Read More: Village Voice |
50 | Jami Bernard |
Grueling and bleak, but not unintelligent...although it's hardly groundbreaking just because everyone's face gets pulpy. |
Read More: New York Daily News |
40 | Gregory Weinkauf |
Fight Club is to intelligent men what Catherine Breillat's "Romance" is to intelligent women -- an insult. |
Read More: Dallas Observer |
40 | Tom Keogh |
This much-anticipated but terribly underwhelming black comedy represents a seriously squandered opportunity. |
Read More: Film.com |
30 | Kenneth Turan |
What's most troubling about this witless mishmash of whiny, infantile philosophizing and bone-crunching violence is the increasing realization that it actually thinks it's saying something of significance. |
Read More: Los Angeles Times |
25 | Lisa Schwarzbaum |
If, as Fincher has said, this movie is supposed to be funny, then the joke's on us. |
Read More: Entertainment Weekly |