Reviews for this film from our members:
- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Ed allora dietro ad un film, pur costruito con grande maestria, si nasconde forse una piccola crisi d’ispirazione. E’ davvero questo quello che ci aspettiamo da uno dei grandi visionari del nuovo secolo?
- Dragan Antulov @ Draxblog VI [Croatian]
- [New – 7/2/15] | Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: I found Gone Girl has one extremely positive aspect, but in almost other ways, it’s a long drag to get to its inevitable conclusion.
- José Arce @ LaButaca.net [Spanish]
- Excerpt: David Fincher vuelve a crear un micromundo estéticamente impecable y esencialmente sórdido, y allí nos abandona para jugar con nuestra percepción con una película sobre el poder de las historias, las mentiras y el placer de la narración. Una propuesta fantástica.
- Nicholas Bell @ IONCINEMA.com
- Excerpt: Fincher’s Gone Girl is really an exaggerated spectacle of much more, a sordid examination of the games we play in our intimate interactions with one another, the masks and disguises used to create better personas of ourselves when trying to land (or trap, perhaps) a mate.
- William Bibbiani @ CraveOnline
- Excerpt: This is not a “meaningful” movie, it is a lark that takes itself too seriously, and under the assured direction of David Fincher, it’s way more fun that way.
- Luke Bonanno @ DVDizzy.com
- Excerpt: You want answers and justice, but you do not want the movie to end.
- Matt Brown @ Twitch Film
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: A brilliantly directed and well-acted psychological thriller.
- Sarah D Bunting @ Tomato Nation
- Kevin Carr @ 7M Pictures
- Excerpt: It may not be the most satisfying film when all is said and done – and if you think too hard about it afterwards, you’ll find massive plot holes that never get resolved – but for a slice of disposable fiction done with an expert hand, “Gone Girl” is quite entertaining.
- Samuel Castro @ Ochoymedio.info [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Una reflexión sobre un signo de nuestros tiempos: la imagen que proyectamos de nosotros mismos según quién nos mire, disfrazada de thriller.
- Bill Clark @ From The Balcony
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Fincher has designed a portrait of marriage as psychological warfare where ceasefires masquerade as happiness.
- Tony Dayoub @ Cinema Viewfinder
- Excerpt: Among director David Fincher’s movies, GONE GIRL might end up ranking as well executed a puzzle film as THE GAME.
- Carlos del Río @ El rincón de Carlos del Río [Spanish]
- Excerpt: La coherencia brilla por su ausencia.
- Jim Dixon @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: Crime thrillers don’t get much better than this. Based on Gillian Flynn’s bestselling novel, “Gone Girl” is a crafty and well-crafted suspense thriller about a man who finds himself the prime suspect in his wife’s sudden disappearance, but it’s also an unsettling and darkly perceptive study of the pitfalls of modern marriage.
- Billy Donnelly @ This Is Infamous
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: It’s stirring on a gut level, but the constant barrage of extremes also grows tiring—even a little tiresome.
- Candice Frederick @ Reel Talk
- Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: Director David Fincher’s enthralling adaptation of ‘Gone Girl,’ starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike, is one of the best films of 2014.
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: I can already hear Oscar buzz…
- Vadym Grygoriev @ kinoblog.com [Ukrainian]
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: At heart Gone Girl is a marriage fable, but this isn’t the fantasy of an idealized romance. It’s the tale of the institution as a prison that locks two people in a dungeon of souls desiring to break free.
- Travis Hopson @ Examiner
- Excerpt: The care and precision, the dark and foreboding undercurrents racing through every moment, are what Fincher brings that another director may have taken for granted.
- Blake Howard @ Graffiti With Punctuation
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Ruins itself as even high-toned cinematic junk food when its justifiable cynicism morphs into something manipulative and dangerously disingenuous.
- Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Excerpt: See Gone Girl for suspenseful, edge of your seat mystery but really see it for Rosamund Pike.
- Ben Kendrick @ Screen Rant
- Excerpt: Gone Girl is a layered narrative experience that can be appreciated on multiple levels – with an intriguing central mystery, rounded characters, and sharp social commentary.
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: Fully absorbing in all of its 149 minutes, “Gone Girl” deceptively begins as a moody, seductive crime investigation with a mystery not easy to solve and then becomes a bait-and-switch into a lurid, disturbing Brian De Palma and Paul Verhoeven collaboration, in a good way.
- Oktay Ege Kozak @ Oregon Herald
- Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- Kristin Dreyer Kramer @ NightsAndWeekends.com
- Donald Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
- Excerpt: Based on the acclaimed novel of the same name, “Gone Girl” explores the complicated relationship between a man and his wife, but who’s playing whom is part of the fun at the center of the film’s mystery.
- James Marsh @ The Society For Film
- Excerpt: Gone Girl looks very much like a David Fincher film, from its washed out colour-palette, earthy hues and now-obligatory Reznor/Ross soundtrack, but it sure doesn’t play like that.
- Alan Mattli @ Facing the Bitter Truth [German]
- Excerpt: It’s enthralling in the Hitchcock vein, but what ultimately makes ‘Gone Girl’ one of the best movies of the year is its formal brilliance.
- Matthew McKernan @ FilmWhinge
- Excerpt: It is also a film that offers a facile examination of marriage, one that the film seems to think is actually challenging and risky and that requires the cover of a dopey thriller. Almodóvar or Verhoeven it ain’t, though it is, by definition, pretentious.
- Ryan McNeil @ The Matinee
- Excerpt: Leave any man alone long enough and he’ll show you his true colours. Spoiler alert: They aren’t very pretty colours.
- Simon Miraudo @ Quickflix
- Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Excerpt: Gone, baby, gone…
- Pat Mullen @ Cinemablographer
- Excerpt: Gone Girl essential offers hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage, and then more hateship. I.e. it’s love, Fincher style.
- João Pinto @ Portal Cinema [Portuguese]
- Jason Pirodsky @ Expats.cz
- Excerpt: Gone Girl works just fine as an engrossing B-movie thriller – despite the 2.5 hour runtime, this thing just flies by – but it’s filled with such delicious subversive cynicism and social commentary that it becomes so much more.
- Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: Gone Girl is a complex story that opens one way, and then turns another way before turning into something completely different. The story is all about perspectives sprung from the story of a marriage that never should have happened in the first place.
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: An entertainingly movie with an intriguingly intricate plot, but it’s really nothing more than a slick, well-manufactured potboiler.
- Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Phil Villarreal @ Becauseitoldyouso.com
- Andrew Wyatt @ St. Louis Magazine
- Excerpt: It’s striking that such a pessimistic portrait of rotten relationships could be so enjoyable, but that’s the grim magic of Fincher’s sleight-of-hand.
- George Zervopoulos @ moviesltd.gr [Greek]
