British critic and filmmaker Charlie Shackleton ('Beyond Clueless') reopens the infamous case of the murderer who terrorized ...

Director Charlie Shackleton had his Zodiac killer documentary shut down. Debuting at Sundance, his new film explains how it ...

Charlie Shackleton’s clever documentary is a wake-up call for the true crime genre The post ‘Zodiac Killer Project’ Review: ...

Director Charlie Shackleton's meta project about the notorious serial killer challenges, with wry humor, our entire approach ...

Watch enough true-crime documentaries and patterns begin to emerge—a situation that speaks to the genre’s embrace of a cookie ...

Zodiac Killer Project' dissects true crime’s tropes, ethics, and obsession with closure, exposing the genre’s contradictions with sharp insight.

The Zodiac Killer Project by Charlie Shackleton masterfully exposes the tricks and tropes of true crime. It just debuted at ...

The new documentary Zodiac Killer Project, which explores the infamous case of the Zodiac Killer, premiered on January 27, 2025, in Park City as part of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. It will ...

Naturally, The Verge is going to be taking in as much of Sundance as we can and posting bite-sized reviews of everything we ...

A still from The Perfect Neighbor by Geeta Gandbhir, an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute.

“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 ...

Filmmaker Charles Shackleton faced that grief when his thoroughly researched project, a documentary on the Zodiac killer case, got the plug pulled after years in development. But the director’s ...