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Reviews Counted:46
Fresh:37
Rotten:9
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: A quiet, dialogue-driven thriller that delivers with scene after scene of gut-wrenching anxiety. David Fincher also spends more time illustrating nuances of his characters and recreating the mood of the 70s than he does on gory details of murder.
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Runtime: 2 hrs 42 mins
Genre: Murder, Killer, , Cops, True Story, Thriller, Serial Killers, 1970s, 1960s, Detectives, Murder Mysteries, Murder Investigations, Based On A Novel, Theatrical Release
Theatrical Release:Mar 2, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $33,048,353
Synopsis: David Fincher's (FIGHT CLUB, SE7EN) adaptation of the Robert Graysmith book masterfully transports viewers to the Bay Area in the 1960s and '70s by drawing on actual case files from the notoriously... [More]
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey, Chloe Sevigny, Anthony Edwards
Director: David Fincher
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[W]here Se7en, with its stygian gloom and theatrical executions, inflated the serial killer genre to gothic proportions, Zodiac lets the air back out. It is methodical rather than macabre, clinical rather than cruel.
Top CriticFincher, more subdued ... and aching for a return to smart suspense films from the likes of Sidney Lumet and Alan J. Pakula, pulls us by the collar into the frame and cranks the sense of menace taut without cheap tricks or cop-out gimmicks.
Top CriticGyllenhaal always manages to present a person of some sensitivity without leaning on actorish resources.
Top CriticI think this is a great film.
Top CriticAny honest neurotic could probably tell you: the emotional payoff of an obsession is not attaining some longed-for goal -- it’s the obsession itself, which fulfills certain needs.
Top CriticLow-key but all the more compelling for it, Zodiac is the first must-see movie of 2007.
Top CriticIt makes you want to study it even more closely, in search of things you might have missed, trailing after leads that flash by in the relentless momentum of going nowhere fast. If you're not careful, it might make you obsessed.
Top CriticFor all its dramatic flaws, Zodiac deserves praise for not choosing the easy route.
Top CriticFor a director whose earlier films include the influential Seven and cult-fave Fight Club, the results are merely good -- not great.
Top CriticWithout a persuasive ending, Zodiac is an exercise in frustration.
Top CriticThe most perverse thing about Zodiac isn't that its Hollywood's umpteenth serial-killer flick, when such crimes are rare in reality. It's that Zodiac, though based on actual crimes, is one of the dullest of these films to date.
Top CriticThe most provocative aspect of this compulsive riddle is how it resists closure.
Top CriticThe Zodiac killer was never found. Dealing with a murder mystery that's still unsolved gives Fincher shaky enough ground for drama. Add in a protagonist who seems driven by a vacuum, and you pretty much have a movie about nothing going nowhere.
Top CriticZodiac is not only smart and calculated -- it's in it for the long haul.
Top CriticFincher has told a sprawling story about crime and fear and those whose lives are transformed by both.
Top CriticHave no doubts, director David Fincher makes movies that rattle. Even when they're not wholly successful.
Top CriticWhat makes Zodiac authentic is the way it avoids chases, shootouts, grandstanding and false climaxes, and just follows the methodical progress of police work.
Top CriticA long work of completely sustained suspense and dark humor.
Top CriticDavid Fincher's magnificently obsessive new film Zodiac is part police procedural, part monster movie, a funereal entertainment that is a testament to this cinematic savant's gifts.
Top CriticOverlong and lacking dramatic focus, the film nevertheless captures the dark allure that the unsolved crimes had on the region over a 22-year period.
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