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.Read Full Review »
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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.Read Full Review »
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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.Read Full Review »
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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.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
Romero finds still new and entertaining ways for unspeakably disgusting things to happen to the zombies and their victims.Read Full Review »
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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.Read Full Review »
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.Read Full Review »
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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."Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
Looks and feels like someone else's better-made schlock.Read Full Review »
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