What’s most surprising, however, is how [filmmaker Robinson Devor is] able to make a film about such a sensationalistic subject and have it be neither unbearably sleazy nor cringe-inducing.

| Sep 8, 2023

A beautiful and quietly unnerving film about a forbidden subject...that leaves us wishing there was more to it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 6, 2019

Patterson's tense doomsday thriller is campy but curious.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 7, 2015

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 24, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 29, 2008

Devor has made an intriguing but flawed docu about bestiality, in which the aesthtic and bizarre imagery negates his more serious and critical probation.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 2, 2007

a bizarre, moody entry that's part documentary, part drama.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 22, 2007

The legacy of Chris Marker weeps when the future of essay filmmaking looks like a feature-length commercial for Ambien.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 21, 2007

Director Robinson Devor makes an only mildly disgusting film about a wholly revolting subject.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 5, 2007

Zoo is the formal antithesis of To Catch a Predator-like exposés in its presentation of outcasts.

| Original Score: 70/100 | Jun 25, 2007

Time and again, Devor sabotages his own attempt to bring 'zoos,' literally and figuratively, into the light.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 2, 2007

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 26, 2007

Punch lines and outrage come easy, but beware: If you walk into this film with a secure moral judgment, prepare to have it shaken by the time you leave.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 25, 2007

Zoo would be laughable if it weren't in such bad taste.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 24, 2007

Zoo, with its idiosyncratic subject matter, may not be the easiest sell in the world, but anyone interested in provocative, challenging, and unexpected fare owes it to themselves to check it out.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 19, 2007

Zoo, despite its elegance, teeters on a tightrope; by relying primarily on words from men who seem reluctant to talk much about what happened, it ends up having little to say.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 11, 2007

It's never explicit or sensational or tittering. And in that it's something of a golden example; political documentaries should be this careful and restrained.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | May 11, 2007

This experimental-style documentary invokes the waking dreams of David Lynch, Werner Herzog and Errol Morris. It's like a true-crime inquiry undertaken during a total eclipse.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 11, 2007