If you loved State of Play, try Zodiac
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Theyboth carry the cerebral, paranoid mood tags, and they sit in Crime / Mystery / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to State of Play, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Zodiac is
San Francisco, 1970s, a cryptic letter arrives. A serial killer taunts police and reporters, who become obsessed with the case, as an amateur cartoonist races against time to prevent another murder. Fincher methodically reconstructs the decade-long hunt.

