Here, we’ve ranked his filmography according to the letter grades they received in their EW reviews.
He probably wouldn’t have it any other way.
The sizzling ethical-dramatic question that drivesThe Social Networkis: Why did Zuckerberg betray these people?
Credit: Merrick Morton/20th Century Studios; Netflix; Everett Collection
Or, in fact, did he really?"
Fincher, however, teases out the full mythological grandeur of the material.
And for good reason.
There were reasons to be wary, of course.
WasBen Afflecktoo smug and let’s face it, too on-the-nose to play the callow Nick Dunne?
WasRosamund Piketoo icily ethereal and untested to play his missing wife, Amy?
And how would the film handle the novel’s just-short-of-preposterous Big Reveal?
Well, the answers are no, no, and…masterfully.
Fincher and Flynn’s film gets just about everything right."
But only now has computer-driven wizardry matured enough to meet the story’s challenges so unobtrusively.
What he is, though, is a phenomenon of heightened celebrity.
(Vanity be damned, Pitt revels in dental imperfections!)
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