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Land of the Dead
Universal Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for pervasive strong violence and gore, language, brief sexuality and some drug use
Starring
Simon Baker,
John Leguizamo,
Asia Argento,
Robert Joy,
Dennis Hopper,
Eugene Clark,
Jennifer Baxter,
and
Boyd Banks
George A. Romero's long-awaited return to the genre he invented. (Universal)
| GENRE(S): |
Action
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Drama
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Horror
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Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
George A. Romero
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| DIRECTED BY: |
George A. Romero
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: October 18, 2005
Video: October 18, 2005
Theatrical: June 24, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
93 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Canada / France / USA |

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
Michael Rechtshaffen
The latest installment could well be Romero's masterpiece. Taking full advantage of state-of-the-art makeup and visual effects, he has a more vivid canvas at his disposal, not to mention two decades worth of pent-up observations about American society.

100
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Romero's newest is a horror movie for hard-core fans of the gory and the gruesome and a classic genre film for genre aficionados.

100
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
One of the enormous pleasures of genre filmmaking is watching great directors push against form and predictability, as Mr. Romero does brilliantly in Land of the Dead. One thing is for sure: You won't go home hungry.

100
Premiere
Aaron Hillis
Land of the Dead is Romero's long-awaited masterpiece, a slyly suspenseful and droll thrill-ride that expounds on both the highbrow and the chewed-off-brow concepts of his previous trilogy, then flippantly dismisses the cheap scare tactics of the control-pad generation's gimmicky genre knockoffs.

90
Variety
Justin Chang
George A. Romero shows 'em how it's done in Land of the Dead, resurrecting his legendary franchise with top-flight visuals, terrific genre smarts and tantalizing layers of implication.

90
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Romero easily commands an enormous cast, a plethora of action sequences and a cornucopia of special effects -- some of them very gory -- and creates one darkly dazzling image after another that allows Land of the Dead to emerge without any nudging whatsoever as a bleakly humorous, hard-charging allegory.

90
Slate
David Edelstein
As the ghouls evolve toward humanity and the humans toward ghouldom, we can appreciate Romero for using horror to show us How We Live Now, and How We're Living Dead now, too.

83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
The social commentary isn't subtle, but Romero delivers the goods so effectively that many won't even notice.

83
Portland Oregonian
Marc Mohan
Land of the Dead is huge. It's Romero doing what he does best: using zombies to create a lowbrow social parable. It shows up junk like "Resident Evil: Apocalypse" for the brainless pap it is. And it's got something that even the best previous "Dead" films have lacked: good acting.

80
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
The satire is headline-fresh, the action scenes keep pace with summer blockbusters, and no one shoots an evisceration with as much skill.

80
Empire
Kim Newman
Inventive suspense, spiky characters, outrageous horror and wicked satire. Welcome back, George - you've been away too long.

78
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Hopper, unsurprisingly, devours scenery like he's already dead and loving it, but for once his penchant for overacting is overshadowed by the real stars of Romero's world: They're dead, they're all messed up, but it's great to finally have them back in town.

75
New York Daily News
Staff (Not Credited)
Land is pure entertainment and superbly well done. It is not as scary as it is gross, and its grossness is so outrageously graphic (hint: don't seat yourself next to a zombie at your next barbecue) that it is laugh-out-loud funny.

75
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Brains! Brains! Why can't they make a zombie movie with brains? This is one. Romero has given us, as well as the zombies, a lot to chew on.

75
USA Today
Mike Clark
It's fairly solid fun, though, without breaking any new ground, just as January's remake of "Assault on Precinct 13" was.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
David Hiltbrand
Oddly enough, though Land of the Dead is more clever and grand than Romero's early classics, it is not as haunting.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Romero finds still new and entertaining ways for unspeakably disgusting things to happen to the zombies and their victims.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
The master is back, and there's no shortage of exploding brain matter -- or fun -- to be had in the theaters this weekend.

75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Brad Wheeler
Land of the Dead is a horror flick, but not a screamy one -- the booming soundtrack pumps up the drama, and the gore induces squirms, but zombies more titillate than anything.

70
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Romero isn't a subtle filmmaker -- the sociopolitical underpinnings of his DEAD films have always been brutally clear -- but LAND is alive with subtle touches.

70
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Romero's fourth entry, turns out to be his most conventional as an action thriller--though it's every bit as gory as the others and more clearly class-conscious.

63
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
It's not startling or frightening enough.

63
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
A perfectly adequate horror romp, but it's hard to imagine anyone remembering it five years from now.

60
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Romero's fourth-grade dialogue doesn't help matters, but anyone seeking out the latest achievements in cranial ruptures, spewing-blood gouts, and ground-beef spillage need look no further.

50
Dallas Observer
Luke Y. Thompson
If the Star Wars movies have taught us anything, it's that waiting 20 years for a new sequel by a guy named George can lead to disappointment.

50
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Land of the Dead is fairly intense. Intensely gory and violent, that is, as has come to be expected from the genre. It's just not very frightening. Not half as frightening as, say, last year's "Dawn of the Dead."

50
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
Land falls well short of the greatness of Romero’s previous zombie efforts.

50
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Looks and feels like someone else's better-made schlock.

42
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
In Land of the Dead there are virtually no good parts. The movie is listless and uninspired.

40
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Too bad the plot held no surprises and the acting no revelations. No actor could be said to stand out and the movie never acquires much tension or momentum.


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