The movie that put Fincher on the map is, on the surface, a typical ’90s crime drama about a brilliant serial killer and the cops (Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman) who must hunt him down. In Fincher’s hands, however, the story is almost entirely about atmosphere — a millennial, apocalyptic gloom where the killer’s Biblical judgment is almost beside the point, since the characters are already living in hell. “Seven” remains so chilling, even decades later, that even that tiny spoonful of hope is hard to swallow.
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