Metacritic Movie Ratings
Zoo Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 90

  out of 100

  VarietyScott Foundas

  A breathtakingly original nonfiction work by Seattle-based filmmaker Robinson Devor (whose "Police Beat" was among the highlights of Sundance's 2005 dramatic competition).

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• 80

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt

  Whether meaning to or not, Devor and his accomplished crew expand our concept of the documentary film, which relegates this documentary to art houses, not porn theaters.

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• 70

  out of 100

  Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan

  Zoo is a cool sensibility married to a hot topic, a poetic film about a forbidden, unsettling subject. Elegantly made and eerily lyrical, it deals with what director Robinson Devor has accurately called "the last taboo, the boundary of something comprehensible."

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• 60

  out of 100

  The New York TimesManohla Dargis

  Paradoxically, it is precisely because Mr. Devor refuses to acknowledge the murkiness that clings to every frame in his film, because he refuses to engage with the world beyond that of the zoophiles, that they seem like creatures from some never-ending night.

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• 50

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman

  You could wander into this poetic documentary willing to be sympathetic toward its subject -- men who have sex with horses -- and still find Zoo cryptic and borderline bogus.

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