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#10. Zodiac (2007)

Sound the alarms. We are in the top ten. This is the cream of the crop of my film preference and I think it’s perfect. In the number 10 slot on the list of my 100 Favorite Films of All Time is the 2007 mystery thriller film, Zodiac. Zodiac was directed by David Fincher and stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, and Robert Downey Jr. with supporting performances from Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox, Elia Koteas, John Carroll Lynch, Philip Baker Hall, and Chloe Sevigny.

This is the fourth of six David Fincher films to make the list and I think is the second best movie of the 2000s and second best of 2007. Fincher telling the true story and portraying the mania that the Zodiac Killer caused was unreal to view. He layered Zodiac by also showing the madness that clouded Robert Graysmith and how this case drove Paul Avery further in alcoholism. The performances given by Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., and Mark Ruffalo are close to career peak performances for all three. And then the unsung performance came from John Carroll Lynch as Arthur Leigh Allen, the supposed Zodiac Killer.

I adore a plethora of the scenes in Zodiac, but one of my favorites is when Graysmith goes into the basement of Bob Vaughn and it leaves you terrified and perplexed. You think the whole time that Arthur Leigh Allen is the Zodiac Killer, but you’re thrown off the trail. Then a few scenes later, Graysmith goes to the store where Allen works and they lock eyes.

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