n Beauty, …ms from 2023 seems to finally indicate pushback against a superhero-dominated cinematic landscape). When Fight Club was in cinemas, it rubbed shoulders with the likes of American Beauty, The Matrix, The Talented Mr Ripley, The Cider House Rules, Ride with the Devil, The Blair Witch Project, The Sixth Sense, and The Iron Giant: Films across multiple genres that all had a sense of questioning and challenge to traditional thinking, either formally or thematically.