28 Weeks Later Critic Reviews

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Boston Globe | Erin MeisterAdd Critic to Favorites

The script is biting and timely.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Lisa SchwarzbaumAdd Critic to Favorites

Excels at creating a keen, creepy sense of a civilization stopped dead in its tracks -- vaporized, almost, except for those disemboweled bodies left still undisposed.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Carina ChocanoAdd Critic to Favorites

28 Weeks Later lacks the streamlined thrust of its predecessor but makes for compelling, adrenaline-fueled viewing just the same.Read the full review

ReelViews | James BerardinelliAdd Critic to Favorites

"28 Days Later," while not terribly original, was suspenseful and involving. 28 Weeks Later is neither. The characters aren't as sympathetic or interesting.Read the full review

Rolling Stone | Peter TraversAdd Critic to Favorites

Hold on for a hell of a ride.Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Peter HartlaubAdd Critic to Favorites

The biggest sin of 28 Weeks Later is that it's not in the same league as the near-perfect movie that came before it.Read the full review

Slate | Grady HendrixAdd Critic to Favorites

The first hour of this lean, mean, 95-minute scream machine is so tasty that it redeems the predictable conclusion.Read the full review

The Hollywood Reporter | Ray BennettAdd Critic to Favorites

A ferociously entertaining thriller with sympathetic characters, stunning set pieces and pulsating excitement.Read the full review

The New York Times | A.O. ScottAdd Critic to Favorites

28 Weeks Later is not for the faint of heart or the weak of stomach. It is brutal and almost exhaustingly terrifying, as any respectable zombie movie should be. It is also bracingly smart, both in its ideas and in its techniques.Read the full review

The Onion (A.V. Club) | Scott TobiasAdd Critic to Favorites

Under Fresnadillo's assured direction, 28 Weeks Later blurs the line between genre entertainment and a photojournalist's shots of the next urban catastrophe.Read the full review

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