Seven (Se7en)

Seven (Se7en) (1995)

  • 85% of critics liked it
    (53 reviews)

  • 94% of users liked it
    (403,294 ratings)

Director David Fincher's dark, stylish thriller ranks as one of the decade's most influential box-office successes. Set in a hellish vision of a New York-like city, where it is always raining and the air crackles with impending death, the film concerns Det. William Somerset (Morgan Freeman), a… More

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R, 2 hr. 10 min.
Directed By
David Fincher
Written By
Andrew Kevin Walker
Genres
Mystery & Suspense, Drama
In Theaters
Sep 22, 1995 Wide
On DVD
Apr 14, 1997
New Line Cinema

Critic Reviews

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

    The filmmakers stick to their vision with such dedication and persistence that something indelible comes across--something ethically and artistically superior to The Silence of the Lambs that refuses to exploit suffering for fun or entertainment.

  • Variety Staff, Variety

    An intensely claustrophobic, gut-wrenching thriller.

  • David Ansen, Newsweek

    So chic, studied and murky it resembles a cross between a Nike commercial and a bad Polish art film.

  • Janet Maslin, New York Times

    The crime scenes are rendered in sickening detail, and the whole film has a murky, madly pretentious tone.

  • Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

    Seven wants to abrade, not ingratiate.

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  • c0up  


    'Se7en'. A dark, clever, suspenseful tale, with a wonderfully creepy Kevin Spacey and his take on a nation of sinners

  • Zach B


    The entire town is rainy and dark every moment of the day. You wake up in the morning, you open your window, you see the dark clouds floating, the sounds of people below, the racket of police cars as they are off trying to capture someone. You are a detective, and this is your last… More

  • Melvin W


    John Doe: It seems that envy is my sin.  "Let he who is without sin try to survive" Sev7n is a simply brilliant crime/detective thriller. This is the film that gave David Fincher credibility and really paved the way, for what would be a magnificent career. He has made some… More

  • paul o


    AWWWWWWW YEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHH But actually, this movie is the best! Nine inch nails intro, the box at the end, and MORGAN FREEMAN!

  • Thomas B


    There are few films which can lay claim to scenes which shook the world, or at least the people watching. Alien had the Chestburster, Silence of the Lambs had that first meeting with Hannibal Lecter, Se7en has the box. A simple cardboard box that gives way to an ending which literally… More

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