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69
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67
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64
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62
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61
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61
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58
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57
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57
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55
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55
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55
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54
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54
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53
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49
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48
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47
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44
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41
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37
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37
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37
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36
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36
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35
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34
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34
10,000 B.C.
33
Superhero Movie
31
Deception
24
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22
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xx
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xx
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xx
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67
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75
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86
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86
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84
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84
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83
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83
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83
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83
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83
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82
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81
Tell No One
80
Bigger, Stronger, Faster*
80
Band's Visit, The
79
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79
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79
Visitor, The
78
Counterfeiters, The
76
Beauty in Trouble
76
Shotgun Stories
75
Young@Heart
74
Mongol
74
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73
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72
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72
Priceless
72
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72
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71
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71
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71
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70
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70
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70
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70
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69
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69
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69
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68
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68
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68
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67
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66
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66
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64
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64
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64
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64
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64
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63
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63
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63
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62
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62
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62
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62
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61
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61
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60
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60
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60
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59
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57
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56
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56
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56
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55
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55
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55
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55
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55
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54
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53
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52
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52
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52
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52
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51
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51
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49
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47
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45
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38
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37
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34
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33
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30
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28 Weeks Later...
Fox Atomic / 20th Century Fox
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for strong violence and gore, language and some sexuality/nudity
Starring
Catherine McCormack,
Robert Carlyle,
Amanda Walker,
Shahid Ahmed,
Garfield Morgan,
Emily Beecham,
Beans El-Balawi,
and
Chris Ryman
28 Weeks Later, the follow up to 28 Days Later, picks up six months after the rage virus has annihilated the Mainland Britain. The U.S. Army declares that the war against infection has been won, and that the reconstruction of the country can begin. As the first wave of refugees return, a family is reunited, but one of them unwittingly carries a terrible secret. The virus is not yet dead, and this time, it is more dangerous than ever. (Fox Atomic)
| GENRE(S): |
Foreign
|
Horror
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Sci-fi
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Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Rowan Joffe
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Jesús Olmo
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: October 9, 2007
Theatrical: May 11, 2007
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| RUNNING TIME: |
99 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
UK |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
The Hollywood Reporter
Ray Bennett
A ferociously entertaining thriller with sympathetic characters, stunning set pieces and pulsating excitement.

100
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
As viscerally compelling as smash-mouth filmmaking gets.

90
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
28 Weeks Later is not for the faint of heart or the weak of stomach. It is brutal and almost exhaustingly terrifying, as any respectable zombie movie should be. It is also bracingly smart, both in its ideas and in its techniques.

90
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
There's no better fun for movie lovers than a small, unheralded film that turns out to be terrific -- unless it's a small, unheralded sequel that trumps the original.

90
Variety
Derek Elley
A full-bore zombie romp that more than delivers the genre goods.

88
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Swift, vicious and grimly imaginative, the zombie film 28 Weeks Later exceeds its predecessor, "28 Days Later," in every way.

88
Boston Globe
Erin Meister
The script is biting and timely.

88
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Those rigorously moral and humanistic underpinnings give 28 Weeks Later a kind of power that 100 Saws and Texas Chainsaw Massacre remakes could never achieve.

88
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
28 Weeks Later has a stronger story line, equally fine performances, greater tension, enough gore to satisfy the most hard-core zombie fan, and a narrative pace that flings us from the opening scenes to the very last image.

83
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Under Fresnadillo's assured direction, 28 Weeks Later blurs the line between genre entertainment and a photojournalist's shots of the next urban catastrophe.

83
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
I give the slight edge to the first movie because I prefer Boyle's craft to Fresnadillo's, but the action is more intense here, and I greeted the thought of a third film -- virtually assured in the closing shots -- with a little yip of "Yes!" Likely you will, too.

83
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Excels at creating a keen, creepy sense of a civilization stopped dead in its tracks -- vaporized, almost, except for those disemboweled bodies left still undisposed.

83
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
The ending is a set-up for yet another sequel: Can "28 Months Later" be very far away?

80
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
28 Weeks Later lacks the streamlined thrust of its predecessor but makes for compelling, adrenaline-fueled viewing just the same.

80
New York Magazine
David Edelstein
Blistering and nihilistic--a vision to reduce you to a puddle of despair.

80
Empire
Kim Newman
Bigger action, more amazing deserted (and devastated) London sequences and biting contemporary relevance, if a touch less heart than the original.

80
Slate
Grady Hendrix
The first hour of this lean, mean, 95-minute scream machine is so tasty that it redeems the predictable conclusion.

80
Village Voice
Nathan Lee
The sequel trumps its predecessor for sustained doomsday gloom and suggests this might be the man to adapt Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel The Road.

80
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
This sequel to the apocalyptic splatter flick "28 Days Later" . . . (2002) is still well equipped to rip your face off.

75
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
t's an exciting, well-directed thriller that, while providing more than enough action and gore to satisfy genre fans, also offers the political commentary that has characterized zombie movies going back at least as far as "Night of the Living Dead."

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Holds the audience captive and unusually vulnerable to psycho- and viscero-terror.

75
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Hold on for a hell of a ride.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
The biggest sin of 28 Weeks Later is that it's not in the same league as the near-perfect movie that came before it.

75
Premiere
Glenn Kenny
A gruelingly tense, deftly plotted, and slyly intelligent piece of work. And also it's really really disgusting.

75
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Relentlessly grim and grisly, 28 Weeks Later is not for the faint of heart. But its provocative post-apocalyptic theme makes for a smart and deeply unsettling film.

75
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
28 Weeks Later is flawed -- the constant reappearance of one key character verges on the absurd -- but it knows where it's going, and it gets there in a chilling blaze of fire, blood and poisonous fog.

70
Newsweek
David Ansen
Where the original gave you something to chew on, the sequel is more interested in chewing on you.

70
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
Director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, who was essentially handpicked by now-executive producer Danny Boyle, gives us a more depressing look at humanity while retaining several of his predecessor’s moves. This isn’t always a good thing, since Fresnadillo can’t seem to get his fill of low-light hyper-edited fight scenes or frenetic hand-held shots of people running, but when used right it adds to the sense of claustrophobia and impending doom.

67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
The mayhem is presented sparingly enough to be suspenseful, some of the sequences are genuinely terrifying and, compared with Hollywood's last zombie movie, the Robert Rodriguez half of "Grindhouse," it's a masterpiece.

67
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
While 28 Weeks Later ultimately falls shy of classic status (it's no Panic in Year Zero!), there are several hard-to-shake scenes -- nightmare visions, really -- that reveal the infected populace to be far less dangerous to the fabric of a civilized society than, perhaps, the very notion of civilization itself.

63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
Only occasionally does Fresnadillo rise above the mundane, but, to his credit, the exceptions are worth savouring.

58
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
Doesn't match the impact of its predecessor, which both revived and reimagined the zombie-film genre.

50
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Deals with emotional concerns for half an hour. Then it turns into a mindless bloodfest, where it's impossible to care which characters end on the zombie gore-gasbord.

50
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
"28 Days Later," while not terribly original, was suspenseful and involving. 28 Weeks Later is neither. The characters aren't as sympathetic or interesting.


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