“The Killer” is a slickly crafted beast that leaves you clutching your seat as its psychotic protagonist follows his mission through to its predictably bloody conclusion.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 19, 2024

The Killer is not a good film, it is misguided from beginning to end. Why should anyone care about the central character or most of the others?

Full Review | Jul 11, 2024

It's pure Fincher on all fronts, and that's reason to rejoice.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 5, 2024

The Killer is David Fincher playing to his cold and precise strengths, to a mostly positive execution.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 2, 2024

This is the worst dressed, most haggard cinematic assassin in recent memory, with the ugliest beach villa.

Full Review | May 29, 2024

The Killer does provide a fine showcase for some expert close-up fight choreography, but the same attention to detail doesn't extend to the film's contrived, confusing plot and lazy stock characters.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 27, 2024

It plays like a John Wick flick for people who think they’re too good for a John Wick flick.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 12, 2024

The Killer evaporates before your eyes, undone by an obtrusive voiceover narration that undermines its sleek minimalism at nearly every turn.

Full Review | Mar 11, 2024

Just like only David Fincher knows how to do it. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 23, 2024

A stark and stylish hit man drama that makes maximum use of the magnetism of Michael Fassbender.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 15, 2024

Even the fact that the film itself is a technical marvel, sleek perfection from start to finish, is part of the gag.

Full Review | Jan 4, 2024

The Killer is a self-referential work in which Fincher acknowledges his own reputation as a controlling director and digs under the surface to find the quivering child beneath. He’s there, but you have to look for him.

Full Review | Jan 3, 2024

The Killer feels like the Rosetta Stone for David Fincher: the core of his entire thesis as an artist.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jan 1, 2024

A satisfying film, yet I can't tell whether Fincher appreciates that his variations on the formula are still formula.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 29, 2023

An uneven revenge thriller without the emotional depth to match its visual prowess. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 29, 2023

In "The Killer,” a superb Fassbender is at the heart of almost every frame of the film. You could call it a Shakespearean performance. His acting in the thought-provoking, existential movie is a tour-de-force.

Full Review | Dec 29, 2023

Death, “The Killer” seems to say, is just another commodity — like office space at WeWork or a McDonald’s hamburger — and Fincher depicts Fassbender’s assassin as the Grim Reaper as the ultimate vulture capitalist.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 23, 2023

Michael Fassbender, another artist who should also have two Oscars, gives a restrained yet potent portrait of a man who must suddenly protect what he loves. Add a stunning turn by Tilda Swinton...

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Dec 21, 2023

David Fincher strips away the assassination thriller to its essentials ...

Full Review | Dec 16, 2023

Fassbender kills it as The Killer.

Full Review | Dec 16, 2023