Zodiac

Building Suspense Along the Trail of an Invisible Man

YOU don’t ride with the devil in “Zodiac,” that rare American movie that doesn’t turn murder into kicks. With cool intelligence, David Fincher’s masterly opus tracks the years-long efforts by several detectives and newspapermen, including Robert Graysmith (who wrote the book on which the movie is based), to find the killer — the self-anointed Zodiac — who committed a string of murders in Northern California starting in the late 1960s and perhaps continuing into the early 1970s. For these men the search is not only about seeking knowledge but also seeking justice. [...]

di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (6518 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 6 gennaio 2008