Gone Girl, David Fincher’s adaptation of
Gillian Flynn’s knockout best-seller, has several things to
recommend it. Chief among them is a world-class performance by
Rosamund Pike, who plays the devious schemer Amy Dunne with an icy
calculation that recalls old-school noir icons like Barbara
Stanwyck and Lana Turner. Pike has been featuring in movies
(The World‘s End, Jack Reacher) for
more than a decade now, but this juicy role is, at last, her
breakthrough onto the Hollywood A-list. d Fincher savors its dark
maneuverings, while also taking aim at the hypocrisy of tabloid
media and occasionally deploying his gift for creepy set-piece
scenes. As problematic as some of its elements may be, writes Kurt
Loder, the movie is never dull.
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