| Critic |
Review |
Quote |
Analysis |
This Week's Verdict |
A.O. Scott,
The New York Times |
28 Weeks Later |
"Nothing satisfies the appetite for allegory quite like a movie about flesh-eating zombies. Somehow the genre, at least as practiced by its masters, has the capacity to illuminate some brute facts about the human condition and its contemporary dysfunctions." |
Amen to that. AIDS? Terrorists? Plain old social decay? There is nothing flesh-eating zombies can't metaphorically represent. And don't we love them for it. |
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Nathan Lee,
Village Voice |
28 Weeks Later |
"Dark beyond darkness has settled on Fresnadillo's London as it does on McCarthy's unnamed hell, 'like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world.' Happy times! And superior horror. 28 Months Later can't come too soon." |
Happy times indeed. Nothing sharpens movie quality like glaucoma dimming away the world. Now that superior horror has been taken care of, let's hope that a reawakening of the superior conspiracy movie isn't far behind. |
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Armond White,
The New York Press |
28 Weeks Later |
"This film's visual clarity also cuts to the quick. You can see that it's all cheap thrills with the mere gloss of sociopolitical and psychological dread." |
Always the iconoclast, Armond White calls it like he sees it. Unlike his philistine colleagues, he doesn't confuse the mere gloss of sociopolitical dread with the real deal.
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Grady Hendrix,
Slate.com |
28 Weeks Later |
"Critics have been quick to spoil the beginning of 28 Weeks Later [. . .] but not its ending, which is too bad, because the beginning is where all the good stuff is and the ending is nothing you haven't seen before. So, allow me to do the opposite." |
Great. Now both the end and the beginning have officially been spoiled. |
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Stephanie Zacharek,
Salon.com |
Georgia Rule |
"While I don't want to see Lohan, a very gifted young actress, screw up her life, after sitting through Georgia Rule, I'm starting to wonder if her 'unprofessional' behavior during the movie's filming — which prompted a slap on the wrist from a Morgan Creek Productions studio head — wasn't a subliminal, albeit inappropriate, response to this weird, semi-repressive material." |
Looking for answers to an actor's real life drama in a film. Let's call it the new new criticism. |
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