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The 30 best films of 2023

By Little White Lies

As we wave goodbye to another year at the movies, we reflect on the films that have stayed with us – from the plastic fantastic to tense courtroom dramas.

The Killer review – throwback to the golden age of pulp fiction

By Hannah Strong

Michael Fassbender plays a contract killer suffering some professional setbacks in David Fincher's lean, mean new thriller.

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The Killer – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

David Fincher and Se7en screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker reteam for a thriller about an assassin whose bad day at the office has nasty ramifications.

David Fincher will adapt French graphic novel ‘The Killer’ for his next film

By Charles Bramesco

Michael Fassbender could be in line to star in the upcoming thriller, the director’s latest for Netflix.

The 10 best film soundtracks of 2020

By Thomas Hobbs

From Birds of Prey’s intoxicating mix of rap and pop music to Tamar-kali’s atmospheric Shirley score.

The 30 best films of 2020

By Little White Lies

Our favourite new releases from this year, featuring Spike Lee, Chloé Zhao, Josephine Decker and more.

David Squires on… David Fincher’s Mank

By Little White Lies

Our resident cartoonist offers his take on the creation of one of most notorious screenplays ever written.

It’s All True: A Conversation with David Fincher

By David Jenkins

The master filmmaker behind Mank on Orson Welles, Pauline Kael and realising a passion project after a 30-year wait.

LWLies 87: The Mank issue – On sale now!

By David Jenkins

David Fincher makes a spectacular return to feature filmmaking with this melancholy monochrome marvel.

Mank

By Hannah Strong

The man behind the man behind Citizen Kane is the subject of David Fincher’s sparkling paean to classic Hollywood.

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Feast your eyes on hundreds of behind-the-scenes photos from Mank

By Charles Bramesco

A newly surfaced website also previews Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor’s score.

It’s Hollywood versus Hearst in the full trailer for Mank

By Charles Bramesco

David Fincher pits art against commerce in the story of Herman Mankiewicz's tragic downfall.

David Fincher transports viewers to a bygone Hollywood in the Mank trailer

By Charles Bramesco

The director’s first feature film in six years tells the story of how Citizen Kane was written.

10 years on, The Social Network is sharper than ever

By Luke Walpole

David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin’s inside look at the creation of Facebook has got better – and more prescient – with age.

The 100 Best Films of the 2000s: 25-1

By Little White Lies

A.I., American Psycho and Bamboozled all make the final part of our list – but what will come out on top?

Why David Fincher’s Se7en is the perfect odd couple movie

By Lorna Codrai

As detectives Mills and Somerset, Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman make for a dynamic, contradictory pairing.

David Fincher returns to cinemas with first images from Mank

By Charles Bramesco

His first feature in six years chronicles the tensions between Orson Welles and Herman J Mankiewicz on Citizen Kane.

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