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Wild Things

Who Won the Movie?

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Zodiac The Rewatchables
Zodiac

Most Rewatchable Scene

The Arthur Leigh Allen interrogation

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  • The Lovers Lane opening murder and its flashlight-on-gun image are nominated. — Bill Simmons
  • The Vallejo fireworks opening is nominated. — Bill Simmons
  • Graysmith reading the decoded letter as Paul Avery watches is nominated. — Bill Simmons
  • The Lake Berryessa bluff murder is called one of the most unsettling murder scenes.
  • Melvin Belli’s live television appearance is nominated.
  • The Ione Skye car sequence is nominated. — Bill Simmons
  • Downey and Gyllenhaal’s newsroom and bar exchanges are nominated.
  • The Arthur Leigh Allen interrogation is the final favorite. — Bill Simmons
  • The search of Allen’s trailer is nominated. — Bill Simmons
  • The basement sequence is nominated, though one host says repeat viewings reduce its impact.
  • Graysmith’s late-night visit to Toschi is nominated. — Bill Simmons
  • The Ace Hardware stare-down is nominated.
  • Toschi and Armstrong processing the taxi-cab murder scene is nominated. — Chris Ryan
  • Graysmith and Toschi’s first meeting is nominated. — Sean Fennessey
  • The final Door-to-Door breakfast is called a favorite except for the interrogation. — Sean Fennessey
Zodiac The Rewatchables
Zodiac

The most 2007 thing

Folgers coffee; difficulty coordinating investigations across cities

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  • Folgers coffee is the primary 1970s marker. — Bill Simmons
  • Coordinating investigations between cities is cited as another 1970s marker. — Sean Fennessey
  • The film is discussed as Gen X art reckoning with a chaotic late-1960s and 1970s childhood landscape. — Sean Fennessey
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Zodiac

Steven Seagal shitting on himself award for most unbelievable anecdote from the actual film shoot

Fincher’s repeated takes and exacting treatment of Gyllenhaal, Downey, and Ruffalo supply several production-shoot anecdotes.

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Zodiac The Rewatchables
Zodiac

What’s Aged the Best?

True-crime culture, period San Francisco, Downey, the protagonist shift, Graysmith’s internet-like obsession, Fincher’s catalog, and several craft details

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  • Chloë Sevigny’s humor and deliberately ordinary styling are praised.
  • The rise of true-crime culture gives the film more resonance. — Bill Simmons
  • Late-1960s and early-1970s San Francisco is nominated as an enduring setting. — Bill Simmons
  • Fincher’s San Francisco feels haunted and geographically unmistakable.
  • Downey’s mutterings and banter with Gyllenhaal are praised. — Chris Ryan
  • The tonal and procedural shift from Toschi to the isolated Graysmith is praised. — Chris Ryan
  • The unsolvability of mundane tragedy is treated as a lasting subject. — Sean Fennessey
  • Graysmith’s external obsession anticipates internet behavior. — Sean Fennessey
  • Robert Downey Jr.’s comeback context is nominated. — Bill Simmons
  • Zodiac’s place in Fincher’s catalog is nominated. — Bill Simmons
  • Paul Avery’s waterside home is praised.
  • The Chronicle newsroom recreation is praised for capturing an empty morning newspaper office. — Bill Simmons
  • The soundtrack’s gradual move into yacht rock is praised. — Bill Simmons
  • Downey’s on-screen smoking is praised.
Zodiac The Rewatchables
Zodiac

The Great Shot Gordo Award for Most Cinematic Shot

Lake Berryessa, the opening fireworks, a phone booth, the Golden Gate Bridge, and rebuilt San Francisco compete for the most cinematic shot.

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  • The opening city-and-fireworks image is nominated. — Chris Ryan
  • Graysmith and Melanie in the rain-lit phone booth are nominated. — Chris Ryan
  • The Zodiac cresting the hill at Lake Berryessa is nominated. — Sean Fennessey
  • The camera holding on Hartnell during the stabbing is nominated. — Sean Fennessey
  • The cut to the woman’s torso during the stabbing is nominated. — Sean Fennessey
  • An aerial Golden Gate Bridge shot is nominated.
  • The digital reconstruction of the Embarcadero is nominated.
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Zodiac

Sean Fennessey Award for Stealth Homage That Gives Every Movie Nerd a Criterion Orgasm

Memories of Murder

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Zodiac The Rewatchables
Zodiac

Is There a Porn Parody of This Movie?

The Zodiac Killer starring John Holmes

Flex pick · Craig Horlbeck

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  • The category asks whether the movie has a porn parody. — Craig Horlbeck
  • The title The Zodiac Killer and John Holmes are identified.
  • The premise casts Holmes as a cop hunting a killer.
  • Its 63-minute runtime is compared with the Century Club benchmark.
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Zodiac

The Vincent Chase Award: Are We Sure This Character Is Actually Good at Their Job?

The Zodiac is judged surprisingly bad at his job because victims survive and he leaves conspicuous clues.

Flex pick · Craig Horlbeck

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