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Life After Beth

2014

Jeff Baena

Aubrey Plaza, Dane DeHaan, Anna Kendrick, Molly Shannon ...

5.0

1,823

Comedy. Horror. Romance Zach is devastated by the unexpected death of his girlfriend, Beth. But when she miraculously comes back to life, Zach takes full advantage of the opportunity to share and experience all the things he regretted not doing with her before. However, the newly returned Beth isn’t quite how he remembered her and, before long, Zach’s whole world takes a turn for the worse.

	Author	Review
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"One of the most emotionally credible zom-coms since 'Shaun of the Dead'."	POS
United States	Geoff Berkshire Variety	"Jeff Baena's directorial debut is charming, thoughtful and laugh-out-loud funny."	POS
United States	Christy Lemire rogerebert.com	"[It] gets into the well-tread zombie-comedy territory in a clever and inspired way. Then it doesn’t get out of it nearly so skillfully (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Owen Williams Empire	"We must surely now be getting close to some sort of zombie saturation point (...) On 'Beth's evidence, however, there's life in the undead yet (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Sheri Linden Los Angeles Times	"Flat, repetitive execution trumps the setup’s potential"	NEG
United States	Don Kaye Den of Geek	"[It] has enough queasy charm — and that no-holds-barred performance from Plaza — to make it just entertaining enough (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Mark Kermode The Guardian	"Baena keeps things just the right side of believable, eschewing explanation in favour of cracked domesticity (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Matthew Kassel The New York Observer	"Even if 'Life After Beth' is a unique entry in the zombie canon, it still registers as overkill. One gets the sense that Mr. Baena should have let this one die (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU

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