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Diary of the Dead

George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead

2007

George A. Romero

Joshua Close, Michelle Morgan, George Buza, Joe Dinicol ...

5.0

6,162

Horror If Land of the Dead was the glorious and triumphal return of George A. Romero to the zombie subgenre, Diary of the Dead is its perfect counterpoint: the return to his roots in the form of an independent production (his first in twenty years) and once again with the living dead roaming the Earth in search of fresh flesh. As always, the government moves too late and poorly and a group of film students wind up filming the movie of their ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Isn’t it time that we give Romero his due? It’s hardly an accident that Stephen King, Quentin Tarantino, Guillermo del Toro, Simon Pegg and Wes Craven recognize Romero as a master. He is (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Dana Stevens Slate	"[It] is hardly top-drawer Romero. In fact, it may be his worst zombie film yet. But even bad Romero is a far sight more interesting than the coolly sadistic guts-porn that currently passes for mainstream horror"	NEU
United States	Jim Emerson rogerebert.com	"You may not believe in zombies, but the unnamed dread in the air of 'Diary of the Dead' is recognizably believable, because we live with it now (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"A raw, vivid despatch from the frontline, this melds content with frights in classic Romero style. An outstanding exercise in showing the kids how to do it (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Nathan Rabin AV Club	"Romero makes an admirable attempt to update his beloved franchise for contemporary audiences. But this time out, his heavy-handed intellectual concerns get in the way of a perfectly good fright flick."	NEU
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"The way 'Diary of the Dead' chooses to deliver its gore, you know you're in the hands of a grown-up uninterested in the excesses of the 'Saw' or 'Hostel' pictures."	POS
United States	Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune	"It's a shame to speak ill of the dead, but Romero leaves us no alternative (…) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"Not only the most satisfying motion picture Romero has made in a long while, but one of the best of his career (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 3)"	POS
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"We want to high-five Romero for finding new ways to off his lifeless marauders."	POS
United States	Kyle Smith New York Post	"You’re left with something more like the feeling of having a sore knee and a mild toothache at the same time."	NEG

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