George A. Romero's Land of the Dead Critic Reviews

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 the full review

The latest installment could well be Romero's masterpiece. Taking full advantage of state-of-the-art makeup and visual effects, he has a more vivid canvas at his disposal, not to mention two decades worth of pent-up observations about American society.Read the full review

George A. Romero shows 'em how it's done in Land of the Dead, resurrecting his legendary franchise with top-flight visuals, terrific genre smarts and tantalizing layers of implication.Read the full review

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 the full review

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 the full review

The satire is headline-fresh, the action scenes keep pace with summer blockbusters, and no one shoots an evisceration with as much skill.Read the full review

It's fairly solid fun, though, without breaking any new ground, just as January's remake of "Assault on Precinct 13" was.Read the full review

Romero finds still new and entertaining ways for unspeakably disgusting things to happen to the zombies and their victims.Read the full review

The master is back, and there's no shortage of exploding brain matter -- or fun -- to be had in the theaters this weekend.Read the full review