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Shaun of the Dead

2004

Edgar Wright

Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield, Nick Frost, Dylan Moran ...

6.8

44,460

Comedy. Horror. Romance A romantic comedy. With zombies. Shaun of the Dead is an everyday tale of life, love and the living dead focussing on a group of friends who encounter a literal night from hell at their local pub, under attack from a zombie invasion

	Author	Review
United States	J.R. Jones Chicago Reader	"George Romero's zombie trilogy has generated an endless parade of remakes and rip-offs, but this clever British spoof comes closer than many to the bitter satire that makes his movies so distinctive"	POS
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"There is something intrinsically ridiculous about zombie movies (...) 'Shaun of the Dead' skillfully plays off that ridiculousness (...) [It] yields ironic dramatic dividends"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[It] has its pleasures (...) Good thing the movie is about more than zombies. I am by now more or less exhausted by the cinematic possibilities of killing them (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Derek Elley Variety	"A sense of purpose and creative cohesion, so rare in current British cinema, is evident from the first, very funny scene (...) Performances are on the nail"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It's pacily directed, nicely acted and boasts a script crammed with real gags (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Philip Horne Telegraph	"An unexpected double joy: an unmissable English movie about the undead which is far from braindead and, simultaneously, a beautifully observed, very funny comedy."	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"[A] blast of fright and fun (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Alan Jones Radio Times	"It may seem like a one-joke conceit but you do actually care about the characters, which sustains the narrative (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle	"The most original comedy from either side of the pond in years (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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