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Fincher returns to the airport novel, and this time he’s up to the task of elevating it beyond even his customary craftsmanship. Some credit to Gillian Flynn’s adaptation of her own book, which can’t quite reproduce the breathless page-turning qualities of the source material but allows room for it to grow into a pitch-black satire of gender-war dynamics. He (Ben Affleck) is the underachieving bozo trying to warm himself with a fading golden-boy aura; she (Rosamund Pike) is the…
