The Killer review: David Fincher’s assassin thriller hits a dead end

Michael Fassbender stars in a return to Fincher’s grime-and-crime era, but the movie never pays off its setups

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  Siddhant Adlakha
  
• on September 5, 2023 4:06 pm

This review of David Fincher’s The Killer comes from the film’s premiere at the 2023 Venice International Film Festival. The film will be released on Netflix in November.

David Fincher’s latest movie — a Netflix adaptation of the French…