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This piece was written during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Without the labour of the actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn’t exist.

It’s not hard to see why David Fincher would be a favourite for many young cinephiles, especially when one would know his own style from a body of work that includes Se7en, Zodiac, and The Social Network. With The Killer, a film based on the French comic book of the same name, it seems like Fincher is operating on an entirely different wavelength from what he usually works from. It’s as stylized as you’d expect from any other Fincher piece, but The Killer also feels like it’s giving you a sense of what it feels like to be a part of his own process. It’s a film all about the meticulous nature of everything, and it’s hard not to be at least wrapped into that whole ordeal.

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