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Gone Girl

2014

David Fincher

Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry ...

7.3

68,305

Mystery. Thriller On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his beautiful wife, Amy, has gone missing. The mysterious disappearance unearths the secrets at the heart of this modern marriage. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick’s portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Xan Brooks The Guardian	"A feverish thriller (...) a garish, gripping tale (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"David Fincher's adaptation of Gillian Flynn's best-seller is unnerving, shocking and provoking (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"Surgically precise, grimly funny and entirely mesmerizing over the course of its swift 149-minute running time, this taut yet expansive psychological thriller represents an exceptional pairing of filmmaker and material."	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"A sharply made, perfectly cast and unfailingly absorbing melodrama."	POS
United States	Rex Reed The New York Observer	"Preposterous, illogical, senselessly over-plotted and artificial as a ceramic artichoke ... one of the year's grossest disappointments"	NEG
United States	Joshua Rothkopf Time Out	"It's a hypnotically perverse film, one that redeems your faith in studio smarts. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Graham Fuller Screendaily	"David Fincher’s guileful Gone Girl - which opens the New York Film Festival - should transcend its aura of adult sophistication to become a major hit in all territories"	POS
United Kingdom	Ian Freer Empire	"A cinematic equivalent of a juicy page-turner, a gripping, sharp, blissfully entertaining thriller (...) Gone Girl is a David Fincher date movie: dark, smart and dangerous (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"What makes Gone Girl so intoxicating is the way the mystery unfolds (...) Anyone who loved Gone Girl the book will walk out of Gone Girl the movie with a sick grin on their face"	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"'Gone Girl"' shows the remarkable things that can happen when filmmaker and material are this well matched"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"David Fincher's shockingly good film version of 'Gone Girl' is the date-night movie of the decade for couples who dream of destroying one another. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"'Gone Girl' is to marriage what 'Fatal Attraction' was to infidelity. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"It's everything the book was and more. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS

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