Subject: David Fincher

• Waiting for McGuffin

  Hitchcockian The Game fails to master suspense

  September 11, 1997

• Monster Mash

  Alien Resurrection breathes new life into the franchise

  November 27, 1997

• Wanted delivers the empowered Everyman sentiment of Fight Club, minus the guilt

  June 26, 2008

• Brad Pitt Ages in Reverse in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

  December 25, 2008

• New on DVD: Parenthood never looked scarier in the underrated Joshua

  January 10, 2008

• Final Cut

  The very, very best of 2007

  January 3, 2008

• Chow Time Again

  July 26, 2007

• Oh, the Humanity of a Heist

  Gordon-Levitt awes again in character-driven theft thriller

  March 29, 2007

• Killer Instinct

  Type-A approach to filmmaking pays off

  March 1, 2007

• Hand It to Him

  February 8, 2007

• The Year of Living Sequentially

  Sequels, prequels, and threequels headline Hollywood 2007

  January 4, 2007

• Murder By Death

  Like Se7en, but more jokes

  June 8, 2006

• Abort

  Running the franchise into the ground

  May 4, 2006

• Boy Oh Boy

  You have no idea what you're in for . . . but you'll learn

  April 28, 2005

• Shock Treatment

  Going completely mental

  March 3, 2005

• A Cut Above

  October 28, 2004

• Screenplay Zero

  August 26, 2004

• Breast in Show

  Angelina Jolie stars in Taking Lives, but the filmmakers are the real boobs

  March 18, 2004

• Sidestep of the Machines

  The Terminator's back. Again.

  July 3, 2003

• A Toothy Grin

  Horror fans have good reason to smile at Darkness Falls

  January 23, 2003

• Tapeheads

  Gore Verbinski and Naomi Watts throw their hats into The Ring

  October 17, 2002

• Fight Club

  When it comes to producing movies, it's a fine art (or Art Linson)

  July 11, 2002

• Skate or Die

  In the 1970s, the Z-Boys were hell on wheels. Today, they're shredding the big screen.

  May 2, 2002

• Reel War

  The Army and Hollywood join hands to wage virtual, bloodless battles

  October 18, 2001

• Ass-Backwards

  Reverse chronology leads nowhere fast in gimmicky Memento

  April 19, 2001

• Still Fab After All These Years

  A spiffed-up Hard Day's Night continues to dazzle, with its jump cuts, slow motion and sped-up Beatles antics

  December 28, 2000

• The Spoof That Dreams Are Made Of

  The first rule of Film Club is you don't talk about Film Club

  August 31, 2000

• The Late, Late Show

  Shadow Hours descends into film noir hell zone

  August 31, 2000

• Tool of the Trade

  A Perfect Circle tries to prove that its popularity is because of much more than just Maynard Keenan's pretty face

  June 1, 2000

• Pull the Strings!

  The power of puppetry propels Being John Malkovich

  November 4, 1999

• The Beat Generation

  Fight Club pummels promising premise in ground

  October 21, 1999

• Exorcise in Futility

  As demonic-possession thrillers go, Stigmata's no head-turner

  September 16, 1999