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Zodiac

The 21st Century’s 100 greatest films (BBC)

Zodiac

2007

David Fincher

Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards ...

6.8

70,018

Thriller. Mystery Based on the Robert Graysmith book of the same name, Zodiac is about the notorious serial killer who haunted San Francisco during the 1970's. Leaving a series of puzzling clues and letters on the trail, he was never officially caught while leaving several victims in his wake. A killer without a known identity, this is the story of what is now the notorious legend that to this day, remains one of San Francisco's most infamous unsolved crimes. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Magnificently obsessive (...) Rarely has a film with so much blood on its hands seemed so insistently alive."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A massively confident and watchable thriller (...) The murder scenes are chilling"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"It’s the process that pins you to your seat (...) [Fincher] hakes you up in ways you don’t see coming (...) Something unique and unmissable (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"I'm not convinced this had to be 157 minutes long (...) But Fincher does keep this bubbling along"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Its most impressive accomplishment is to gather a bewildering labyrinth of facts and suspicions over a period of years, and make the journey through this maze frightening and suspenseful (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"'Zodiac' never takes off, but it never collapses. At times, it becomes frustrating -- for example, about 30 minutes are spent pursuing a lead that goes nowhere."	NEU
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"Conveying an astonishing array of information across a long narrative arc while still maintaining dramatic rhythm and tension (...) David Fincher’s most mature and accomplished work"	POS
United States	Tom Charity CNN	"It is [Fincher's] most mature and coherent picture (...) 'Zodiac' is a fascinating procedural precisely because Fincher leaves room for doubt."	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"'Zodiac' is the rare serial-killer movie in which the psychosis stems as much from the pursuers (and the filmmaker) as the pursued."	POS
United States	David Denby The New Yorker	"'Zodiac' is superbly made, but it’s also a strange piece of work"	POS
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"This gripping character study becomes more agonisingly suspenseful as it gets closer to an answer that can’t be confirmed (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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