TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

Fincher gets it all right, and Donovan's hippie-dippy "Hurdy Gurdy Man," which bookends the story, has never sounded so hauntingly menacing.

The A.V. Club by 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.

Chicago Sun-Times by 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.

Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman

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

Newsweek by David Ansen

The movie holds you in its grip from start to finish.

Village Voice by 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."

Seattle Post-Intelligencer by William Arnold

An absorbing and fulfilling experience -- even though it ends with a question mark.

Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer

In Zodiac, working from a script by James Vanderbilt, Fincher has decidedly toned down his act. His straight-ahead, methodical direction isn't as flagrantly unsettling as much of his previous work, but it's more psychologically layered. In this film, for the first time, we feel for his characters when they bleed.

Variety by 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.

The Hollywood Reporter by Michael Rechtshaffen

Firing on all cylinders as a creepy thriller, police procedural and "All the President's Men"-style investigative newsroom drama, the smart, extremely vivid production oozes period authenticity.