On first glance, the stylish MTV videos he directed for stars and wannabes look like his strongest work. So much of David Fincher’s film career consists of genre efforts with chic staging of violence. But like Otto Preminger the lumbering pace of bureaucracies and the sturdiness of institutions fascinate him: police departments (Seven, Zodiac), Harvard administrators (The Social Network), marriage (Gone Girl), masculinity (Fight Club), Brad Pitt (pick three). Few of his films reward further study, despite the precision of their visual design; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo are rebukes to the notion that movies should be more than excuses or precise visual design. The exception: Zodiac (2007), an Unsolved Mysteries episode whose body count wears down a generation of Bay Area investigators.
The Hague
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Meh
Mank
Gone Girl
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Panic Room
Alien 3
Sound, Solid
Seven
Fight Club
The Game
Good to Great
Zodiac
The Social Network
Humanizing The Vacuum 
I’m afraid “Mank” is a dour waxworks…
Interesting list. Panic Room wasn’t that bad. Maybe Nicole Kidman would have been better there (she was originally cast), but Jodie Foster provided it with her own intelligent aura, shall I put this way. If I had to pick my favourite Fincher film it would be Seven. His trademarks are all over it and Pitt was both a blessing and a curse for that film – same can now be said of Spacey, obviously.