Overview
- Following its Sundance premiere, the feature begins theatrical engagements on November 21 with an opening at Toronto’s Hot Docs Cinema.
- Shackleton pivoted to this self-reflexive project after the Lafferty family withdrew support, leaving him without rights to adapt The Zodiac Killer Cover-Up.
- Built from long, mostly static Bay Area shots under an intimate, self-correcting voiceover, the film maps the documentary he planned but could not make.
- The work critiques streaming-era true-crime tropes rather than advancing the Zodiac case, citing examples such as The Jinx, Making a Murderer, Paradise Lost, and Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.
- Reviews characterize the release as sharp and entertaining yet occasionally thin, emphasizing formal and ethical scrutiny over new investigative revelations.