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OFCS Rating: 85% Fresh |
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8/10 | "Darkly funny, tense and devastatingly grim, it manages to bring a classic horror back to life without stinking of rot." |
| Movie Gazette |
| Anton Bitel |
B+ | "At last, a horror remake worth the watch." |
| FromTheBalcony |
| Bill Clark |
| "Their efforts to survive make them human, but they can only confront more of the same, deadish or aliveish." |
| Nitrate Online |
| Cynthia Fuchs |
2/4 | ""When there're no more original ideas in Hollywood, the studios will opt to remake." And, in first-time director Zack Snyder's case, poorly." |
| Movie Boeuf |
| David N. Butterworth |
2.5/4 | "The so-called zombie baby, promised in the film's trailer, is emblematic of the film's refusal to take risks." |
| Reel Film Reviews |
| David Nusair |
| "It’s definitely one of the wittiest, scariest and goriest horror films in the last decade, offering adrenaline-pounding, edge-of-the-seat fun.
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| Portland Tribune |
| Dawn Taylor |
C | "The only enjoyment I had was in making a body count of the dead and guessing who would be the
final survivors." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
3/4 | "Dawn of the Dead is creepy, smart, classy moviemaking. The film takes no prisoners in its sole goal to scare you silly." |
| TheMovieBoy.com |
| Dustin Putman |
A- | "Scene after scene of near-misses, direct hits and incredibly tense confrontations with the undead, all conceived and executed with pulse-pounding efficiency." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
B | "Originality is an issue, but it's not the issue, and besides: the movie exhibits plenty in the execution, if not in the concept." |
| Film Blather |
| Eugene Novikov |
3/4 | "...a killer thriller that has an over-the-top raw presence that stimulates and takes its observers on a tumultuous trip through its perverse playground" |
| Movie Eye |
| Frank Ochieng |
B | "There isn't much here that you haven't encountered in lots of other horror movies, but you'll rarely have seen the familiar elements delivered so effectively." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
0/5 | "A gross-out horror flick that reveals a total contempt for human life and ends on a predictable note of cynicism." |
| Spirituality and Practice |
| Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat |
3/4 | "For those who enjoy tight, tense, graphic horror, this movie offers an ample helping." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
3/4 | "reimagining the zombies as fast, proactive attackers makes for some truly scary horror, but it also deprives the film of the nuance Romero was able to instill in his zombies" |
| Q Network Film Desk |
| James Kendrick |
4/5 | "Thoroughly modern remake of 1978 B-movie classic is surprisingly smart and delivers zombie-tastic action-horror thrills." |
| Netflix |
| James Rocchi |
7/10 | "Less reflective of today's version of mindless horde-driven consumerism and perhaps simply more reflective of today's version of horror movie-making." |
| Window to the Movies |
| Jeffrey Chen |
2/4 | "Doesn’t stop to take its breath, and it remains frequently scary in the moment without leaving much to chew on afterwards." |
| Slant Magazine |
| Jeremiah Kipp |
5/10 | "... spent too much time with the losers in the mall and not enough with the man-eating freaks outside." |
| JoBlo's Movie Emporium |
| JoBlo |
75/100 | "It’s fast-paced, action packed, and desperately cheesy, but completely free of suspense." |
| FilmFocus |
| Joe Utichi |
8/10 | "...as hella scary as any zombie movie ever made, and its intensity never lets up for a second." |
| DVDTown.com |
| John J. Puccio |
| "Snyder...has created a completely new vision that constantly catches you by surprise." |
| Light Views |
| John Larsen |
7/10 | "An extremely rare example of a remake being better than its original, even though it lacks the tasty digs at consumerism." |
| Planet Sick-Boy |
| Jon Popick |
4.5/5 | "Fun, scary, witty, nerve-wracking, gory, exciting, and jam-packed with sly commentary." |
| Cinerina |
| Karina Montgomery |
2.5/4 | "... crunchy zombie guilty-pleasure goodness!" |
| MovieCrypt.com |
| Kevin A. Ranson |
B+ | "Snyder takes his horror seriously, and God bless him for it. He has crafted the rarest of remakes: one that might actually surpass the original." |
| FilmStew.com |
| Larry Carroll |
A- | "2004's Dawn of the Dead delivers the entire package, gripping you by the throat before the opening credits have run and never letting go." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Laura Clifford |
2.5/5 | "A buzzed-up gloss on the original, it's entertaining -- if fundamentally shallow." |
| TV Guide's Movie Guide |
| Maitland McDonagh |
3/4 | "These movies should be remade every decade" |
| Movie Habit |
| Marty Mapes |
| "[M]aybe the first slasher/zombie/splatter horror flick that feels like a part of the post-9/11 world, full of a chaotic, why-me panic..." |
| Flick Filosopher |
| MaryAnn Johanson |
3.5/4 | "Dawn of the Dead is ultra-violent, excessively bloody, and extremely gory – all in a good way. I left the theater feeling pumped full of adrenaline." |
| Aisle Seat |
| Mike McGranaghan |
B- | "Soups up the zombies, takes the gross-factor to eleven, and has a lot of cheeky in-jokes about its predecessor.
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| Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies |
| Nell Minow |
B | "Nicely amplifies George A. Romero’s 1978 zombies-at-the-mall horror classic." |
| Lessons of Darkness |
| Nick Schager |
4/5 | "Embora fique devendo o comentário social que transformou o filme original em um clássico, Madrugada dos Mortos é uma produção eficiente e divertida que merece aplausos." |
| Cinema em Cena |
| Pablo Villaca |
| "Surprisingly, 'Dawn of the Dead' is actually a pretty good film in its own right...as a gory action-horror movie, it gets the job done with speed and efficiency..." |
| Critic Doctor |
| Peter Sobczynski |
3.5/5 | "Not so much a remake of George A Romero's 1978 classic as a recycling of the premise." |
| Shadows on the Wall |
| Rich Cline |
3/5 | "Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately for those who feared a true desecration of Romero's masterwork, this is only a moderately competent zombie flick." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Rob Gonsalves |
| "Zack Snyder's zombies are like his stylistic flourishes: big, dumb, and obvious." |
| Projection Booth |
| Rob Humanick |
B- | "There are scares aplenty in Dawn of the Dead; enjoy them and be well. Twenty years from now, though, I know which version I'll still be watching." |
| Flipside Movie Emporium |
| Rob Vaux |
B | "A notch above what you expect from a Zombie movie." |
| Laramie Movie Scope |
| Robert Roten |
B+ | "“Dawn of the Dead” is a fast paced actioner that will please the fans of Romero’s work and attract a whole new gang of gore hounds" |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Robin Clifford |
4/5 | "There are dozens of zombie movies out there that AREN'T remakes, and this one's easily more entertaining than just about all of 'em." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Scott Weinberg |
B | "Romero's satire is largely replaced by a sardonic gallows humor... but otherwise it's a bloody entertaining zombie apocalypse." |
| Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Sean Axmaker |
3/4 | "Heretical to even suggest it, Zack Snyder's remake of George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead surpasses the original in any number of ways." |
| Film Freak Central |
| Walter Chaw |
D+ | Read review |
| FilmJerk.com |
| Brian Orndorf |
3/4 | Read review |
| Big Picture Big Sound |
| Joe Lozito |
| Read review |
| Sci-Fi Movie Page |
| James O'Ehley |
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OFCS Rating: 85% Fresh |
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