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90
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Los Angeles Times Manohla Dargis
At once an old-fashioned freakout and an environmental cautionary tale (mess with Mother Nature and she'll mess with you right back), the film combines two genre standbys -- lethal contagion and the undead -- and gives them a wicked, contemporary spin.
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90
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Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Rarely has so scary a thriller been so well made, and never has digital video -- by the English cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle -- been put to grittier use.
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88
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland plumb the violence of the mind with slashing wit and shocking gravity. Happy nightmares.
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83
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
A swankily austere piece of jeepers-creepers sci-fi.
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80
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The New York Times Dana Stevens
Mr. Boyle has hardly lost his sly, provocative perversity or his ear for the rhythms of unchecked violence, but he does seem to be maturing. It's as if, in contemplating the annihilation of the human race, he has discovered his inner humanist.
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75
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
A tough, smart, ingenious movie that leads its characters into situations where everything depends on their (and our) understanding of human nature.
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75
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
By the finish, the movie is getting by on little but adrenaline and audience goodwill. Still, that goodwill runs fairly deep, because, taken all in all, 28 Days Later is a superior motion picture.
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75
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USA Today Claudia Puig
The look of the film, shot on digital video, is haunting and gritty. The cleaner, prettier look of 35mm would have detracted from the immediacy and sense of foreboding created in this artful blend of sci-fi and pseudo-realism.
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50
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Washington Post Desson Thomson
Creepy and truly suspenseful in some places, unintentionally comic or plain awful in others.
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30
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Washington Post Ann Hornaday
Unrelentingly grim, unremittingly gross and unforgivably unattractive, 28 Days Later is an orgy of troubling images and bestial sound effects.
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