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6. Zodiac
Lack of resolution is one of the defining conditions
of our time, leading to symptoms of
anxiety and obsession. David Fincher presses
on those sore spots masterfully in the year's best whodunit
drama without a reassuring hedidit ending. Who
was the so-called Zodiac Killer on a serial spree of death
around San Francisco's Bay Area in the late '60s? And
what toll did pursuit of such a taunting, elusive killer
take on those committed to the chase? With a sure feel for manifestations of mass-media frenzy (the way it
was then, the way it is now); a great cast of dark-eyed
souls, including Robert Downey Jr., Jake Gyllenhaal,
Mark Ruffalo; and a primo character actor in John
Carroll Lynch as the prime suspect, Fincher turns a
police procedural into a nerve-racking thriller.
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