The Host: A sea creature is wreaking havoc on Seoul, the city's only real hope a collection of misfits who hope to prove that the family that slays together stays together. In this horror/comedy, South Korean director Bong Joon-ho stages his rampages with skill and dispatch.
Zodiac: It's been almost 30 years since the Zodiac killer terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area, but David Fincher's dogged re-creation of the effort to catch him makes it seem like only yesterday. Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr. and Mark Ruffalo play some of the puzzle-solvers who got swept up in the investigation, and Fincher presents us with a fascinating procedural.
