The Game (1997)

David Fincher’s third movie (between Seven and Fight Club), which I hadn’t seen until it hit the Criterion Channel this week, with Michael Douglas as a wealthy banker who gets a mysterious birthday gift from his younger brother (Sean Penn). This is a solid twisty thriller, and much less bleak than the two Fincher films that bookend it. (Also, the 1990s was a fantastic decade for this type of movie in general, but it looks to me like September 8–19, 1997, was a particularly incredible couple of...