Gone Girl Reviews
The opening-weekend reviews are in! What’s everyone saying about the Gone Girl movie?
- Our sister site Movie Rewind has the Book vs. Movie rundown.
- NPR says David Fincher’s direction “delivers jolts designed to make audiences squeal, while also letting you identify with characters one moment, and wish you hadn’t the next.”‘
- RogerEbert.com says this “overheated,” “plot-obsessed picture” is a “sick film, and often brilliant.”
- Entertainment Weekly praises the cast’s “gallows humor” and “calculating oiliness,” and gives it an A.
- Rottentomatoes.com gives it a pretty-darn-good 87%.
- EW reports that Gone Girl pulled in $38 million for its opening weekend.
- Variety credits female audiences with Gone Girl‘s successful opening.
- See the full cast list.
See more Gone Girl coverage on Readers Lane:
- Read our review of the book that started it all.
- Way back when, we predicted our picks for the Gone Girl cast. How’d we do? Take a look!
- Watch a trailer, listen to a sample of the soundtrack, and read more behind-the-scenes info on our updates page.
- Loved Gone Girl? Try these read-alike dark thrillers and suspenseful stories about secretive spouses.
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Great points raised here regarding The Gone Girl Movie Is Here. In particular, the takeaways you highlighted are spot on for anyone tracking the culture space right now. Thanks for putting this together.