
A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. We follow the investigators and reporters in this lightly fictionalized account of the true 1970's case as they search for the murderer, becoming obsessed with the case. Based on Robert Graysmith's book, the movie's focus is the lives and careers of the detectives and newspaper people.... (Full plot summary below)
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A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. We follow the investigators and reporters in this lightly fictionalized account of the true 1970's case as they search for the murderer, becoming obsessed with the case. Based on Robert Graysmith's book, the movie's focus is the lives and careers of the detectives and newspaper people.
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| Cinemaphile.orgDavid KeyesAmong a plethora of skillful thrillers about repeat offenders in the realm of mass murder, David Fincher's wonderful film has easily become the benchmark of the modern era. |
| Empire Magazine AustralasiaLuke GoodsellBeautifully poised, slow and sinister: a trance of expectant menace in which Fincher holds his audience until the movie's finale. |
| CinematicalKim VoynarThe attention to detail in the film is remarkable. |
| eFilmCritic.comRob GonsalvesA stuffed package, a densely woven tapestry of data and entertainment. |
| ViewLondonMatthew TurnerZodiac is a thoroughly engrossing, brilliantly directed and superbly acted thriller that is quite simply one of the best films of the year. Unmissable. |
| musicOMH.comAnton BitelFincher manages the pace brilliantly, making the viewer feel as frustrated, paranoid and, most importantly, driven, as the film's characters. |
| TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghFincher gets it all right, and Donovan's hippie-dippy "Hurdy Gurdy Man," which bookends the story, has never sounded so hauntingly menacing. |
| Detroit Free PressTerry LawsonZodiac is not only smart and calculated -- it's in it for the long haul. |
| ReelerMichelle OrangeAt over two-and-a-half hours of dead-ends and bedevilment, there isn't enough intrigue to justify the empirical extents Fincher is intent on mapping. |
| CinematicalJames RocchiBy showing us the details in carefully-wrought, exacting fashion, Fincher and screenwriter James Vanderbilt turn the hunt for the Zodiac killer into thrilling, exciting cinema -- and the best true-life tale of detection we've had on the big screen since A |