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40 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Village VoiceVillage VoiceZodiac exhausts more than one genre. Termite art par excellence, it burrows for the sake of burrowing, as fascinated by its own nooks and crannies as "Inland Empire."
- 100NewsweekDavid AnsenNewsweekDavid AnsenThe movie holds you in its grip from start to finish.
- 100Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanZodiac never veers from its stoically gripping, police-blotter tone, yet it begins to take on the quality of a dream.
- 90The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenThe Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenFiring on all cylinders as a creepy thriller, police procedural and "All the President's Men"-style investigative newsroom drama, the smart, extremely vivid production oozes period authenticity.
- 90VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyConveying an astonishing array of information across a long narrative arc while still maintaining dramatic rhythm and tension, this adaptation of Robert Graysmith's bestseller reps by far director David Fincher's most mature and accomplished work.
- 90L.A. WeeklyL.A. WeeklyZodiac may be the perfect meeting of filmmaker and subject -- an obsessive's portrait of obsession that is, finally, a monument to irresolution.
- 88Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversUnique and unmissable.
- 88PremiereGlenn KennyPremiereGlenn KennyIt makes for a daringly different kind of thriller -- cerebral, meticulous, haunting.
- 70New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinWhat begins like your basic police procedural becomes more and more choppy and diffuse. To a point, that’s intentional: Zodiac was never caught, and Fincher aims to creep you out with the lack of closure.
- 67Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAt 2 1/2 hours, the film is too long in the telling and too short on suspense.