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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Village VoiceVillage VoiceThe Dead, with its vast, pitiless landscapes and moral seriousness, is "Night of the Living Dead" reimagined as a Sergio Leone western. It's a knockout.
- 75Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanCharlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanThe Fords give us old-fashioned predators: Zombies shuffle slowly, silently, patiently forward, as implacably destructive as Time itself. Meanwhile, the Fords play off our memories from books, TV news and other movies.
- 67Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovThe film provides a whole new way of looking at the same old dead things. Eat up.
- The Dead, evocatively filmed in grainy 35mm, might carry the cinematic vibe of an old-school, flesh-eating adventure, but as it should be with stories like this, it's not a pretty picture.
- 50Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenThe Dead ultimately doesn't have much of a pulse, as it fails to transcend the banality of its inevitable theme.
- 40The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe New York TimesNeil GenzlingerIts scenes frequently feature Africans machine-gunning other Africans or hacking them to death with machetes. This is a disturbing sight indeed. Maybe it was intended as a metaphor, but this movie isn't nearly sophisticated enough to pull off that kind of commentary. It's not really even sophisticated enough to be an absorbing zombie movie