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Metascore®78 out of 100 | Generally favorable reviews

Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    The Onion (A.V. Club) | Scott Tobias

    Zodiac is the rare serial-killer movie in which the psychosis stems as much from the pursuers (and the filmmaker) as the pursued. Read full review

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    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. Read full review

  • 100
    Village Voice | Nathan Lee

    Zodiac 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." Read full review

  • 100
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Zodiac never veers from its stoically gripping, police-blotter tone, yet it begins to take on the quality of a dream. Read full review

  • 90
    Time | Richard Corliss

    Fincher, whose work on "Fight Club" and "Panic Room" displayed his expertise in melding the suspenseful and the lurid, plays it cool here. He lets his stars do their thing. Read full review

  • 90
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    Conveying 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. Read full review

  • 90
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    Rarely has a film with so much blood on its hands seemed so insistently alive. Read full review

  • 88
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    This is the rare movie that blends long scenes of meticulous research with a sweeping story and sustains a feeling of riveting suspense. Zodiac grips you by the throat and doesn't let go. Read full review

  • 75
    ReelViews | James Berardinelli

    The length and uneven pacing are stumbling blocks with which an audience must contend. Patient viewers will be rewarded; others may wish for something with less subtlety and more verve. Read full review

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Crust

    Zodiac is primarily a complex character study, despite the film's grim and gruesome subject matter. It's a role reversal of sorts for a director who normally emphasizes the brutal tension in his movies. Read full review

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