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100
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Pulls you in, challenges your prejudices, rocks your world and leaves you laughing in the face of an abyss. It's alive, all right. It's also an uncompromising American classic.
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100
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San Francisco Chronicle 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.
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100
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Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
A knockout...So feverish is Fight Club...that thermometer contact might make mercury shatter.
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80
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The New York Times Elvis Mitchell
The sardonic, testosterone-fueled science fiction of Fight Club touches a raw nerve.
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75
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Boston Globe Jay Carr
Begins with that invigoratingly nervy and imaginative buzz. But its chic indictment of empty materialist values fizzles.
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70
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Washington Post Stephen Hunter
A provocative experience that lights you up even as it brutalizes you. And I don't even like Brad Pitt very much.
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63
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USA Today Mike Clark
It's fun to talk about...but the price you pay is enduring its excesses and pummeled-home thematic points.
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50
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Chicago Sun-Times 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.
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30
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Los Angeles Times 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.
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25
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Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
If, as Fincher has said, this movie is supposed to be funny, then the joke's on us.
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