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Final Cut

Coupez!

2022

Michel Hazanavicius

Romain Duris, Bérénice Bejo, Grégory Gadebois, Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz ...

5.3

748

Comedy. Horror Things go badly for a small film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie when they are attacked by real zombies.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"An entertaining piece of work -and a genuine oddity, ostensibly about cinema, but more about the live theatre experience. It may yet have found a way to breathe new life into the zombie genre itself (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Richard Whittaker Austin Chronicle	"Like the original, it's heart is in the right place, and that may well be enough for this smart remake"	POS
United States	Jesse Hassenger Paste Magazine	"The satisfaction of a job imperfectly done but unquestionably complete lingers without the same fever-pitch farcical thrill of the original"	NEU
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"[It] desperately wants to be a salute to bad filmmaking, but it's more like a grating example of it (...) 'Coupez!' is kind of a slog (...) A movie the cast and crew were making up as they went along"	NEG
United States	Pete Hammond Deadline	"Very good comedy (...) This is a tribute to cinema if ever there was one (...) It also helps to have a terrific ensemble cast led by Duris and Bejo (...) You walk out of 'Coupez!' with a smile on your face"	POS
United States	Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter	"A trifling gory pleasure (...) 'Coupez!' is just a zombie movie, which by now is a universal and well-worn genre (...) Just as zombies never die, this is a concept that can keep coming back until it's finally killed off for good"	NEU
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"If you make a bad movie to celebrate bad movies, you just get more bad movies. And this is definitely one of them (...) Slack and shambling remake"	NEG
United States	Amy Nicholson Los Angeles Times	"Clever and oddly endearing redux"	POS
United States	Steve Pond The Wrap	"['Coupez!'] is just plain fun. It's a ridiculous movie that deconstructs its own ridiculousness, until it actually ends up being pretty endearing, in a disgusting bloody way"	POS
United Kingdom	Ed Potton The Times	"Ingenious, funny and surprisingly touching (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Joe Lipsett Bloody Disgusting	"'One Cut of the Dead' remake isn’t original, but it is funny and heartfelt (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Ben Kenigsberg rogerebert.com	"Hazanavicius has barely modified the material, going beat by beat through the sorts of jokes that can really only be funny once (...) A movie that has no reason to exist"	NEG
United States	Siddhant Adlakha IGN	"Based on 'One Cut of the Dead', ['Coupez!'] is a more polished version, but it's just as fun and self-reflexive, while also leaning into its remake status for a few added laughs"	POS
United States	David Fear Rolling Stone	"It’s a fast, not as cheap, and much better than decent cover version of another song, one that knows very well that it’s a cover version"	POS
United States	Mary Beth McAndrews Dread Central	"Un metarrelato divertidísimo sobre las dificultades de hacer un remake (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Ethan Vestby The Film Stage	"[It] lacks blood and brains (...) tedious to watch"	NEG
Canada	Josh Bell CBR	"Michel Hazanavicius faithfully replicates the original movie's plot and characters, but the result is fairly bland"	NEG
United States	Belen Edwards Mashable	"Between its B-movie aesthetic and how it pays off long-running gags, there are a lot of laughs to be had"	NEU
United States	Rafael Motamayor SlashFilm	"When 'Final Cut' works, it's mostly because it just repeats what 'One Cut of the Dead' did, and as ill-conceived as this film is, the jokes still land. That only says more about the success of the original film than this one"	NEG
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"'Coupez!' makes both zombie apocalypses and film sets look deeply fraught —and also unexpectedly funny"	POS
	Fabien Lemercier Cineuropa	"Both pure pleasure for the viewer, and a tribute to film and the almost family-like micro-society behind its creation, 'Coupez!' looks set to become a cult film of the future"	POS

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