Fresh
There are no tidy, last-minute plot twists to make you feel good in Fincher's Zodiac, just focus -- to keep an audience focused -- and the most disciplined filmmaking you've seen in forever.
Bob Mondello, NPR.org
Zodiac
There's more than one way to lose your life to a killer.
2007 · 2h 37m · R
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
David Fincher
,
JD Cullum
Overview
Over the course of a decade, editors of the San Francisco Chronicle entice themselves in the murders of the Zodiac Killer. However, as time runs its course, and as interest in the case dwindles in the eyes of the professionals, and as the Killer stops interacting with the public, an amateur cartoonist from the initial sightings races against time to prevent another murder, believing this time he has the answers to crack the case.
Director and cast
- David Fincher Director
- JD Cullum Director
- Jake Gyllenhaal as Robert Graysmith
- Mark Ruffalo as David Toschi
- Anthony Edwards as William Armstrong
- Robert Downey Jr. as Paul Avery
- Chloë Sevigny as Melanie
- Elias Koteas as Jack Mulanax
- John Carroll Lynch as Arthur Leigh Allen
- Brian Cox as Melvin Belli
- Dermot Mulroney Cast
- Charles Fleischer Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
90%
Tomatometer
Fresh
[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.
Christopher Orr, The New Republic
Fresh
Fincher, 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.
Mark Bourne, Film.com
Fresh
Gyllenhaal always manages to present a person of some sensitivity without leaning on actorish resources.
Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic
Fresh
I think this is a great film.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
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