The Zodiac Reviews

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

I hate to waste my time seeing what I know is an incomplete work. Good filmmaking and story telling, though.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

Whether you're a true-crime buff or just an average cinephile who enjoys a well-crafted film, you'll find something to like about Zodiac.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Though The Zodiac is filled with a strong premise and taut atmosphere, Bulkley hardly ever gives us a reason to care for Johnny or Laura.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Great case; mediocre movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Bulkley juxtaposes the benign ordinariness of Vallejo with the savagery of the crime, the wholesome landscape standing in sharp contrast to what happens when no one is looking.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Impressive and unnerving, if uneven.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

At its most interesting, The Zodiac spins a tale of the consequences of homicide, painting a palpable and realistic-seeming portrait of a family and a community falling victim to the psychological terrorism of a serial killer.

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The Zodiac case receded into limbo, and Bulkley's film ends on an inconclusive and profoundly unsatisfying note.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

It's two, maybe three different takes on the same subject duking it out for airtime, and the resulting struggle only leads to boredom.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

A B-movie with just enough heft and factual accuracy to lull us into taking it seriously.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

The Zodiac has been made with the dunderheaded flatness of bad '70s TV.

Full Review | Original Score: D-

A wan, pedestrian treatment of a notorious unsolved crime

Full Review | Original Score: C-

It has the look of a straight-to-video movie, or at best a Project Greenlight production.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

The would-be psychological thriller devolves into a plodding domestic drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

It's a barely serviceable police procedural that has a harder time locating persuasive drama than its detectives do tracking down their man.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

The B-team version of the story.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Have the screenwriters ever studied the concept of arc, how characters evolve from opening to closing credits?

Full Review | Original Score: C-

This movie was born under the sign of the mediocre.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

A less-than stable script and some questionable performances keep it firmly in the realm of direct-to-DVD fodder.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5