‘The Killer’: A Frigid (and Bloody) Portrayal of Middle-Aged Ennui
What do you value when nothing matters?
5 min readNov 24, 2023
David Fincher’s newest film The Killer, starring the always great to watch Michael Fassbender, perpetuates the director’s ironic passion for neo-noirish nihilism. Fincher might be the only director to have achieved A-list status making essentially highly-stylized misery porn. Even…