National Review, April 2nd, 2007
LONG, repetitive, and deliberately inconclusive, David Fincher's Zodiac is the best movie of 2007 so far, and a better piece of filmmaking than anything nominated for Best Picture in the year just past. Superficially more conventional than his brilliant 1990s provocations, Seven and Fight Club, Fincher's latest film is actually another exercise in subversion, in which the familiar rhythms of two crowd-pleasing genres--the serial-killer film and the police procedural--are faithfully recreated and then allowed to dissipate gradually into a miasma of missed connections, lost opportunities, and am...
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