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 populate the aged-best field.
In the discussion (14)
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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.
- Late-1960s and early-1970s San Francisco is nominated as an enduring setting.
- Fincher’s San Francisco feels haunted and geographically unmistakable.
- Downey’s mutterings and banter with Gyllenhaal are praised.
- The tonal and procedural shift from Toschi to the isolated Graysmith is praised.
- The unsolvability of mundane tragedy is treated as a lasting subject.
- Graysmith’s external obsession anticipates internet behavior.
- Robert Downey Jr.’s comeback context is nominated.
- Zodiac’s place in Fincher’s catalog is nominated.
- Paul Avery’s waterside home is praised.
- The Chronicle newsroom recreation is praised for capturing an empty morning newspaper office.
- The soundtrack’s gradual move into yacht rock is praised.
- Downey’s on-screen smoking is praised.