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Black Death

2010

Christopher Smith

Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne, Carice van Houten, David Warner ...

5.6

6,766

Adventure Set in 1348 during the time of the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England, a young monk is tasked with learning the truth about reports of people being brought back to life in a small village.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"I was agnostic about horror director Chris Smith's first film, 'Creep', but this has an insistent, dour darkness and narrative energy that is very watchable indeed (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"With old-fashioned style and old-school effects (...) 'Black Death' takes Dark Ages drama to the limits of moral ambivalence"	POS
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"'Black Death' achieves its goal of reproducing a medieval Europe awash with rats, filth and rotting corpses"	NEG
United States	Duncan Bowles Den of Geek	"[It] is a great film, but utterly harrowing and so well put together that it left me wandering the streets of London afterwards, feeling slightly crushed under a weight of existential angst (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Dan Jolin Empire	"An encouraging set-up soon descends into a grubby muddle, leaving you wishing you were just rewatching 'The Name Of The Rose' instead. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"Spooky, grim, impressive: Bergman eat your heart out (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Leslie Felperin Variety	"A savvy, stylish horror-actioner that’s more than the sum of its genre parts (...) Tech credits create a strong, fetid atmosphere"	POS

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