Larry Gross on ZODIAC (David Fincher, 2007)

I'm going to be back later this week with my thoughts on the recently released ZODIAC: Director's Cut, but first, I thought it would be useful to point out a favourite review of the film. It's written by screenwriter Larry Gross for Movie City News, and it's located here.

Gross' take is an incisive, exploratory look into the very formal properties that make up the Fincher film, and his thoughts on how it's an autocritique of the earlier SE7EN (a film I actually dislike) make it simply some of the best writing on film in the year 2007 (critic Bill Krohn makes a similar statement in his review for "Cahiers du Cinema", but unfortunately, there's no easy hyperlink, though I heartily recommend purchasing the May 2007 "online" version at the website if you're more than curious).