Zodiac (2007)

Zodiac rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.7/10· 672K votes

Rotten Tomatoes90%

Metacritic79%

TMDb7.529/10· 12K votes

With 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.7/10 on IMDb and 79/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Zodiac

Over the course of a decade, editors of the San Francisco Chronicle entice themselves in the murders of the Zodiac Killer. However, as time runs its course, interest in the case dwindles in the eyes of the professionals. The Killer stops interacting with the public. However, believing he has the answers, an amateur cartoonist from the initial sightings races against time to prevent what he believes is another murder.

Cast of Zodiac

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  Jake Gyllenhaal

  as Robert Graysmith

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  Mark Ruffalo

  as David Toschi

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  Anthony Edwards

  as William Armstrong

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  Robert Downey Jr.

  as Paul Avery

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  Chloë Sevigny

  as Melanie

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  Elias Koteas

  as Jack Mulanax

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  John Carroll Lynch

  as Arthur Leigh Allen

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  Brian Cox

  as Melvin Belli

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  Dermot Mulroney

  as Martin Lee

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  Charles Fleischer

  as Bob Vaughn

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  Zach Grenier

  as Mel Nicolai

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  Philip Baker Hall

  as Sherwood Morrill

Zodiac facts

Budget

$65M

Box office

$84.8M

Our take on Zodiac

David Fincher's 2007 crime mystery follows a decade-long obsession with the Zodiac Killer, threading San Francisco Chronicle staff, investigators and an amateur cartoonist through a case that slowly cools while the paranoia never does. Rather than chase catharsis, Fincher lingers on paperwork, dead ends and the toll of an unsolved hunt, so this suits viewers who want procedural detail and mood over easy resolution. Patient, meticulous and unusually quiet for a thriller, it studies how a mystery can consume the people who pursue it. If you prefer slow-burn crime storytelling grounded in the grind of investigation, and can sit with an unresolved ending, it's absorbing and precise.