- Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
- Release Date: Oct 15, 1999
- Starring: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton
- Summary: The film's narrator (Norton) attends support groups of all kinds as a way to "experience" something within his unfeeling, commercial existence. On a business trip, he meets Tyler Durden (Pitt) who encourages them to form a fight club as a release for their latent aggressive tendencies.
- Director: David Fincher
- Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Crime
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 23 out of 35
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Mixed: 10 out of 35
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Negative: 2 out of 35
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100Delivers a sucker punch to the audience and then pulls the rug out from under it. It is sensational. It is also grimly funny.
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80A brilliantly realized series of sucker punches, a philosophical howl disguised as a muscular guy movie.
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60On 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.
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30What'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.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 157 out of 166
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Mixed: 2 out of 166
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Negative: 7 out of 166
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