“What are David Fincher’s Best Movies?” We looked at all of Fincher’s directed filmography and ranked them against one another to answer that very question!

We took all of the movies directed by David Fincher and looked at their Rotten Tomato Critic, Rotten Tomato User, Metacritic, Metacritic User, IMDB, and Letterboxd scores, ranking them against one another to see which movies came out on top. The movies are ranked in our list below based on which movies have the highest overall score between all 6 review sites in comparison with all of the other movies by the same director. The process is all very scientific with no flaws at all.

The full ranking chart is also included below the countdown on the bottom of the page.

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The Top Film’s Of David Fincher

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10 ) Alien³ (1992)

Review Website Ranks:

• Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 10
• Rotten Tomatoes Users: 10
• Metacritc Critic Score: 10
• Metacritic User Score: 10
• IMDB User Review Score: 10
• Letterboxd User Score: 10

After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfortunately, although Newt and Hicks do not survive the crash, a more unwelcome visitor does. The prison does not allow weapons of any kind, and with aid being a long time away, the prisoners must simply survive in any way they can.

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9 ) Panic Room (2002)

Review Website Ranks:

• Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 7
• Rotten Tomatoes Users: 9
• Metacritc Critic Score: 7
• Metacritic User Score: 4
• IMDB User Review Score: 9
• Letterboxd User Score: 9

Trapped in their New York brownstone’s panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders – Burnham, Raoul and Junior – during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.

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8 ) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

Review Website Ranks:

• Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 9
• Rotten Tomatoes Users: 7
• Metacritc Critic Score: 5
• Metacritic User Score: 9
• IMDB User Review Score: 4
• Letterboxd User Score: 8

Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.

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7 ) The Game (1997)

Review Website Ranks:

• Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 8
• Rotten Tomatoes Users: 6
• Metacritc Critic Score: 9
• Metacritic User Score: 3
• IMDB User Review Score: 4
• Letterboxd User Score: 7

In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a coldhearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad — a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nearly a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.

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6 ) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

Review Website Ranks:

• Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 4
• Rotten Tomatoes Users: 4
• Metacritc Critic Score: 4
• Metacritic User Score: 8
• IMDB User Review Score: 4
• Letterboxd User Score: 6

This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, as he investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch’s niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.

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5 ) Zodiac (2007)

Review Website Ranks:

• Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 2
• Rotten Tomatoes Users: 8
• Metacritc Critic Score: 3
• Metacritic User Score: 5
• IMDB User Review Score: 7
• Letterboxd User Score: 3

The true story of the investigation of the “Zodiac Killer”, a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are built and destroyed by the endless trail of clues.

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4 ) The Social Network (2010)

Review Website Ranks:

• Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
• Rotten Tomatoes Users: 4
• Metacritc Critic Score: 1
• Metacritic User Score: 6
• IMDB User Review Score: 7
• Letterboxd User Score: 5

On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room as a small site among friends soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history… but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.

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3 ) Gone Girl (2014)

Review Website Ranks:

• Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 3
• Rotten Tomatoes Users: 3
• Metacritc Critic Score: 2
• Metacritic User Score: 7
• IMDB User Review Score: 3
• Letterboxd User Score: 3

With his wife’s disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it’s suspected that he may not be innocent.

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2 ) Se7en (1995)

Review Website Ranks:

• Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 5
• Rotten Tomatoes Users: 2
• Metacritc Critic Score: 7
• Metacritic User Score: 2
• IMDB User Review Score: 2
• Letterboxd User Score: 1

Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the “seven deadly sins” in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Sommerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer’s mind, while his novice partner, Mills, scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case.

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1 ) Fight Club (1999)

Review Website Ranks:

• Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 6
• Rotten Tomatoes Users: 1
• Metacritc Critic Score: 6
• Metacritic User Score: 1
• IMDB User Review Score: 1
• Letterboxd User Score: 1

A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground “fight clubs” forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.

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David Fincher’s Best Movies

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David Fincher Review Website Filmography Rankings

Film	RT Critic	RT User	MC Critic	MC User	IMDB	Letterboxd	Overal Rank
Fight Club (1999)	6	1	6	1	1	1	1
Se7en (1995)	5	2	7	2	2	1	2
Gone Girl (2014)	3	3	2	7	3	3	3
The Social Network (2010)	1	4	1	6	7	5	4
Zodiac (2007)	2	8	3	5	7	3	5
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)	4	4	4	8	4	6	6
The Game (1997)	8	6	9	3	4	7	7
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)	9	7	5	9	4	8	8
Panic Room (2002)	7	9	7	4	9	9	9
Alien³ (1992)	10	10	10	10	10	10	10