It's well-acted, dramatic, has several thematic elements that are solid, even if it doesn't always peel back the curtains to reveal the reasons why or make use of the consequences of the protagonist's choices.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 2, 2019

[It] plays like one of those sections in certain House of Cards episodes that feel cheap and easy and trashy. For a minute or two it's fun, before it quickly becomes laborious and grating.

| Original Score: D | Feb 24, 2016

None to subtle in its approach, Zipper works only when it wants to.

| Jan 1, 2016

It's a muddled tale of sexual obsession that's both predictable and ridiculous, although Wilson brings some depth to his performance.

| Sep 25, 2015

Too much of the feature is devoted to condom unwrapping, not an excavation into the black heart of personal excess.

| Original Score: C | Sep 2, 2015

Zipper is yet another political thriller laced with adultery, but despite Patrick Wilson's surefire performance, it's not a particularly interesting one.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Sep 2, 2015

[Zipper is] clumsily structured with poorly drawn characters ... it's ugly, boring, and a complete waste of time.

| Original Score: 1/10 | Sep 2, 2015

As it stumbles to the finish line, "Zipper" means to be a condemnation of our political system, but the impact is negligible. The fate of a dull enigma doesn't have much weight.

| Sep 1, 2015

Another cautionary tale that hits a snag...

| Original Score: 4/10 | Aug 31, 2015

"Zipper" is a borderline unmarketable anomaly that exists right in the middle of two completely separate narrative approaches.

| Original Score: C | Aug 29, 2015

If you love Scandal you'll love Zipper. Wilson and Headey head excellent cast.

| Original Score: A minus | Aug 28, 2015

Of interest perhaps only as a glossy bit of Eliot Spitzer fan-fiction.

| Aug 28, 2015

The film as a whole feels sort of retro as a tawdry cautionary tale.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 28, 2015

Lurid and cheesy and sometimes unintentionally funny.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 27, 2015

Another cautionary yarn about a political hopeful whose adulterous behavior catches up with him, Mora Stephens' "Zipper" hits a snag from the get-go.

| Aug 27, 2015

What "Zipper" lacks in depth it makes up in interesting, morally shaded supporting characters.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 27, 2015

Mr. Wilson, as dexterous with righteous bravado as with calibrated self-disgust, ably captures Sam's growing enslavement to his impulses.

| Aug 27, 2015

Zipper has ambitions that go beyond mere prurient exploitation appeal, but the film's reach significantly exceeds its grasp.

| Aug 27, 2015

Zipper takes its sleaze seriously, which isn't quite the same thing as actually caring about it.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 27, 2015

This Zipper gets stuck halfway up to the moral outrage it clearly wants to inspire.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 27, 2015