Jake Gyllenhaal and Chloë Sevigny

Zodiac: The Director's Cut

Director: Fincher, David

Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards, Chloe Sevigny, Brian Cox, Dermot Mulrooney, Elias Koteas, John Carroll Lynch

(Paramount, 2008) Rated: R

US DVD release date: 8 January 2008 (Paramount Home Video)

[8 January 2008]

by Brian Holcomb

Even though Zodiac attempts to achieve a sort of documentary-like reality, there is an underlying surrealism, a poetic and nightmarish vibe that hangs over the whole film.

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