Madfilm Meetup: Movie Tuesday
Gone Girl (David Fincher, USA, 2014, 145 min)
Marcus Eastgate Cinemas, Tuesday October 7, 8:15pm»
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This week we will see what all the buzz is about for David Fincher’s newest, Gone Girl, starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike. We return to Tuesday nights at Marcus Eastgate, so this will be a $5 Movie Tuesday screening. As this will still be opening week for Gone Girl, we anticipate a crowd so consider getting your ticket in advance online. (Convenience fee is waived for Magical Movie Rewards members)
The Madison Film Forum wants you to stream one great film every week, attend at least one great film every month, and meet people doing the same. We don’t sponsor these screenings, we just support them by showing up.
As always we have aggregated reviews of Gone Girl at our Flipboard Magazine. Despite the high overall rating, there are some interesting negative reviews from some major critics. The film currently has a Tomatometer Rating of 86% at Rotten Tomatoes.
Review highlights, positive and negative, include:
“GONE GIRL shows the remarkable things that can happen when filmmaker and material are this well matched.” Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
“The movie, while entertaining and extremely well crafted, is too self-conscious about its depravity to be either truly disturbing or disturbingly funny. Ticking along with metronome-like efficiency, it’s more slick than sick.” Stephanie Zacharek, Village Voice
“The movie is phenomenally gripping-although it does leave you queasy, uncertain what to take away on the subject of men, women, marriage, and the possibility of intimacy from the example of such prodigiously messed-up people.” David Edelstein, New York Magazine
“As sometimes happens in Mr. Fincher’s work, dread descends like winter shadows, darkening the movie’s tone and visuals until it’s snuffed out all the light, air and nuance.” Manhola Dargis, New York Times