Zodiac
For some, the restraint of Zodiac will be the most shocking thing about it. The director, David Fincher, is perhaps best known for the grisly cinematic guignol Seven, and Zodiac is about a real-life serial killer who terrorized California's Bay Area — and more vicariously, the rest of America with both his murders and his taunting, often coded communications to the police and the media. There's definitely the potential for a crassly manipulative gore-fest here. But Fincher's near-epic-length film (it's about two hours and forty minutes), scripted by James Vanderbilt from two books by Robert Graysmith, is instead a complex, multi-layered, two-pronged account of the case.

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