Strange Harvest isn’t the first mockumentary to assume a true-crime format; Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, The ...

“Zodiac Killer Project,” the fascinating feature documentary from director Charlie Shackleton, is nothing like what it sounds. For one thing, it’s not really about the infamous Zodiac Killer ...

“Zodiac Killer Project” sees Shackleton recounting the narrative beats he’d planned for the film, speaking in a wandering, reflective cadence over long shots of Bay Area exteriors.

Without access to any of the story’s main characters, or permission to shoot in many of its actual locations, most of the shots in “Zodiac Killer Project” are defined by an increasingly ...

Dir. Charlie Shackleton — 2.5 Stars A still from "Zodiac Killer Project" by Charlie Shackleton, an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. By Courtesy of Sundance Institute ...

The Zodiac Killer Project premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival where it won the Next Innovator Award, and it's ...

2.5 Summary Zodiac Killer Project intends to indict an entire subgenre, though by the end, this subversive exercise in true crime antics indicts only itself.

“Zodiac Killer Project” is “a sly, sideways spin on the true crime genre, fashioned by a filmmaker who lovingly critiques the tropes and cliches of the form with a connoisseur’s eye ...

Zodiac Killer Project also pivots on a contradiction that numerous films invoke, but this one gets closer than most to reconciling it: that of being a rejoinder to our media-consumption pathologies, ...

“Zodiac Killer Project” sees Shackleton recounting the narrative beats he’d planned for the film, speaking in a wandering, reflective cadence over long shots of Bay Area exteriors.