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Why David Fincher's "The Game" is One of the Weirdest Thrillers of All

Why David Fincher's "The Game" is One of the Weirdest Thrillers of All

And why I've changed my mind about it, again

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Feb 09, 2023
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To relax, I’ve been going back through old 1990s suspense films. I was a teenager back then, and I’ve been wondering which of that era’s movies hold up in my middle-age and which now seem silly.

Enter David Fincher’s 1997 thriller “The Game.”

This one has, for whatever reasons, received the vaunted Criterion-Collection treatment. Here’s Criterion’s Bluray

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