OWEN'S BESTS
10. Zodiac
Drawn, with meticulous precision, from
the actual case files, and shot under dank
fluorescence, David Fincher's raptly unsettling
docudrama about the hunt for the San Francisco
serial killer is a journalistic procedural mystery in the
tradition of All the President's Men. Yet it's also an
investigation into the obsessive addiction of mystery
itself. The killer creates a reign of terror metaphorically
evocative of the one we're in now, and as the case gets
bounced from one precinct to the next, finally landing
in the hands of a cartoonist and amateur sleuth (Jake
Gyllenhaal, in an underrated performance), we're
trapped in his desire to look the monster in the face — and, more impossibly, to make the monsters go away.
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