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Richard Corliss, Time: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...an efficient thriller, with scare weapons ranging from the primitive (a pitchfork) to the apocalyptic (an A bomb). The acting is only horror-film-functional... but you have to give Eisner points for knowing where all the bodies are buried, and how to unearth them suddenly for maximum effect." (Read the full review...) 883 words, 02/26/10 Glenn Whipp, Associated Press: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a zombie movie per se, it derives much of its horror from the same fear -- the enemy lurks both within and without you.... a beautifully shot film that contains equal measures of style and gore." (Read the full review...) 496 words, 02/25/10 Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: MODERATE (cg) "Here's what I can say for sure about the humanoid attackers in the new version of 'The Crazies': They're not very interesting. As in, I don't care how this premise has been dressed up, we've seen it a jillion times before." (Read the full review...) 457 words, 02/26/10 Michael Phillips, A.O. Scott, At the Movies: EXCELLENT (cg) Michael Phillips: "See it." A.O. Scott: "See it." (Watch the full review...) 217 seconds, 02/27/10 Claudia Puig, USA Today: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...familiar B-movie fare, but it's also lively fun and presented with well-paced flair. Be sure to watch it in a safe and contained area." (Read the full review...) 337 words, 02/26/10 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...all depends on good living characters, and a director with something new to say about zombies, who are a subject easily exhausted.... You need zombies. You need heroes.... When you figure you're up to around 90 minutes, the sun can rise. You'll get an R rating, so throw in a little nudity.... That's enough for today." (Read the full review...) 738 words, 02/25/10 James Berardinelli, Reel Views: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...the fast pace and generally sympathetic characters will keep most viewers interested, at least until the final 30 minutes when it begins to wear out its reputation through a combination of repetition and inane plot contrivances." (Read the full review...) 785 words, 02/25/10
Mike Hale, New York Times: WEAK "The problem with 'The Crazies'? Not crazy enough.... has the imprimatur of the master: Mr. Romero is executive producer of the new film. Unfortunately, it doesn't have his style or sense of humor.... only the bare minimum of fun." (Read the full review...) 324 words, 02/26/10 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: POOR (cg) "There's nothing wrong with cheesy horror, so long as the cheese doesn't melt like muenster in the sun and the horror is genuinely scary. Unfortunately, 'The Crazies' has warmed-over chills and a muddled, zombie-like execution." (Read the full review...) 426 words, 02/26/10 Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: FAIR "...loud, squishy and jokey redo simply reflects other movies, including westerns, disaster flicks and zombie creep-outs.... Nearly every scare in 'The Crazies' is telegraphed... only ever amounts to genre-regimented madness." (Read the full review...) 400 words, 02/26/10 Kyle Smith, New York Post: WEAK (cg) "Even for a horror movie, 'The Crazies' is a bore, and we're talking about the most boring genre this side of dysfunctional-family indie drama.... lucky for you this is the kind of movie that inspires audiences to contribute their own bon mots. 'Pop dat fool! Pop him!' cried one citizen at the screening I attended." (Read the full review...) 649 words, 02/26/10 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...all depends on good living characters, and a director with something new to say about zombies, who are a subject easily exhausted.... You need zombies. You need heroes.... When you figure you're up to around 90 minutes, the sun can rise. You'll get an R rating, so throw in a little nudity.... That's enough for today." (Read the full review...) 738 words, 02/25/10 Chuck Wilson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: VERY GOOD "Although English actor Joe Anderson nearly steals the movie as the sheriff's increasingly unhinged deputy, [Timothy] Olyphant grounds it with his ever-fascinating mix of soulfulness and swagger. Any day now, he's gonna be a star." (Read the full review...) 218 words, 02/23/10 Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: VERY GOOD (cg) "Eisner brings plenty of tension and some gratifying scares amid the ordinariness of Main Street U.S.A., clapboard farmhouses and wide fields. And he doesn't need to rely on gore to achieve it... That's not to say splatter fans don't get their fix. They do." (Read the full review...) 531 words, 02/26/10 Rick Groen, Toronto Globe & Mail: MODERATE (cg) "The script tries to get some au courant terrorist mileage out of this - the difficulty of sifting out the crazies from everyone else, and the consequent sacrifice of liberty to security - but quickly gets bored with the effort. Almost as quickly as we do." (Read the full review...) 542 words, 02/26/10 Josep Parera, La Opinion: VERY GOOD (cg) "...funciona por la inteligente labor de Breck Eisner quien demuestra saber manejar los resortes del cine de terror y acción con envidiables clasicismo y funcionalidad." (Read the full review...) 479 words, 02/26/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "Timothy Olyphant gives another sure-to-be-underrated lead performance as a sheriff trying to protect his pregnant wife (Radha Mitchell), and Eisner orchestrates several effective set pieces as the mayhem builds. And he doesn't punk out on the ending either." (Read the full review...) 152 words, 02/25/10
Dan Kois, Washington Post: MODERATE (cg) "...delivers some satisfying scares but skims blithely over the darker ramifications of its story." (Read the full review...) 587 words, 02/26/10 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...at first, entertainingly creepy and intense [but] director Breck Eisner ('Sahara') cranks up the gore to levels that are overpowering and unpalatable." (Read the full review...) 392 words, 02/26/10 Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle/San Francisco Chronicle: WEAK (cg) "...businesslike slice-and-dicer, a remake of the low-budget classic (if that's the word)... The characters are standard issue... Eisner has almost nothing on his mind, no political rumblings, nothing behind the urge to upgrade vintage trash." (Read the full review...) 561 words, 02/26/10 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: MODERATE (cg) "...a lean little thriller that doesn't mess around.... But after 'Zombieland,' 'The Crazies' struggles to find novelty and laughs..." (Read the full review...) 413 words, 02/26/10 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a slick fearjerker, filmed with brilliant visual style and edited with sadistic precision. The town has a frayed, lived-in look, and when director Breck Eisner begins turning off the lights and setting homes on fire, it transforms nicely into an atmospherically chilling hell on earth." (Read the full review...) 491 words, 02/26/10 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a taut horror film, wasting no time establishing its premise: a picturesque Iowa town is driven insane by a toxin released into the water supply.... a lot of fun for horror fans, a nice little jaunt through paranoia and conspiracy theories." (Read the full review...) 667 words, 02/26/10 Cary Darling, Dallas Morning News: EXCELLENT (cg) "...a taut, suspenseful joyride through the zombie nation that's based on the 1973 film of the same name... a B-movie in the best sense of the word, proving big names and a bigger budget aren't necessary for creativity." (Read the full review...) 361 words, 02/26/10 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: VERY GOOD (cg) "I don't want to oversell the movie - its pleasures are very much of the drive-in. Still, it knows that if you trust your audience you can get away with almost anything, and that's not crazy at all." (Read the full review...) 728 words, 02/26/10 Ted Fry, Seattle Times: MODERATE (cg) "There are a few inventive set pieces... But director Breck Eisner (former Disney chief Michael Eisner's son) stumbles in playing up an inherent tension that could have given audiences their own case of the crazies." (Read the full review...) 428 words, 02/26/10 Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "...sicker, but smarter than original." (Read the full review...) 402 words, 02/27/10 Tom Long, Detroit News: MODERATE (cg) "Director Breck Eisner ('Sahara') creates an eerie mood early but can't sustain it, and doesn't make us care about the characters once they're pared down to a few survivors." (Read the full review...) 288 words, 02/26/10 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: VERY GOOD (cg) "Directed with great style and unusual restraint by Breck Eisner... has the feel of a Stephen King novel... You may not remember 'The Crazies' in a month, but you'll have a grand time watching it." (Read the full review...) 460 words, 02/26/10
Chuck Wilson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: VERY GOOD "Although English actor Joe Anderson nearly steals the movie as the sheriff's increasingly unhinged deputy, [Timothy] Olyphant grounds it with his ever-fascinating mix of soulfulness and swagger. Any day now, he's gonna be a star." (Read the full review...) 218 words, 02/23/10 Tom Meek, Boston Phoenix: VERY GOOD (cg) "Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell bring grit to the podunk sheriff and his wife, who endure the carnage, and the flick boasts many expertly gruesome moments without too much overkill. It's a smart meat-and-potatoes-and-gore throwback." (Read the full review...) 150 words, 03/04/10 Keith Phipps, AV Club: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Whatever contemporary resonance it might have had, even with the paranoid wingnut crowd, gets lost in a procession of competent -- and sometimes slightly better than competent -- shocks." (Read the full review...) 317 words, 02/25/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "Timothy Olyphant gives another sure-to-be-underrated lead performance as a sheriff trying to protect his pregnant wife (Radha Mitchell), and Eisner orchestrates several effective set pieces as the mayhem builds. And he doesn't punk out on the ending either." (Read the full review...) 152 words, 02/25/10
John Anderson, Wall Street Journal: EXCELLENT "Like all the best thrillers, 'The Crazies' abuts believability... The big difference between Mr. Romero's film and Mr. Eisner's -- which is so intelligent you fear the fanboys will scatter -- is that Mr. Eisner never gives us the military's point of view.... And 'The Crazies' is all the scarier for it." (Read the full review...) 260 words, 02/26/10 Mike Hale, New York Times: WEAK "The problem with 'The Crazies'? Not crazy enough.... has the imprimatur of the master: Mr. Romero is executive producer of the new film. Unfortunately, it doesn't have his style or sense of humor.... only the bare minimum of fun." (Read the full review...) 324 words, 02/26/10 Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: FAIR "...loud, squishy and jokey redo simply reflects other movies, including westerns, disaster flicks and zombie creep-outs.... Nearly every scare in 'The Crazies' is telegraphed... only ever amounts to genre-regimented madness." (Read the full review...) 400 words, 02/26/10
Dennis Harvey, Daily Variety: GOOD "...an above-average genre piece that's equal parts horror-meller and doomsday action thriller.... More tense than truly shocking or scary, the pic does manage some good setpieces..." (Read the full review...) 745 words, 02/25/10 Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter: VERY GOOD "...has been given the remake treatment to surprisingly satisfying effect. Part zombie movie, part apocalyptic bioterror, part military conspiracy thriller, the refit hybrid doesn't stint on the visceral kicks demanded by contemporary audiences while remaining reasonably true to those Romero roots." (Read the full review...) 389 words, 02/25/10 Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: FAIR "...loud, squishy and jokey redo simply reflects other movies, including westerns, disaster flicks and zombie creep-outs.... Nearly every scare in 'The Crazies' is telegraphed... only ever amounts to genre-regimented madness." (Read the full review...) 400 words, 02/26/10 Mike Hale, New York Times: WEAK "The problem with 'The Crazies'? Not crazy enough.... has the imprimatur of the master: Mr. Romero is executive producer of the new film. Unfortunately, it doesn't have his style or sense of humor.... only the bare minimum of fun." (Read the full review...) 324 words, 02/26/10 John Anderson, Wall Street Journal: EXCELLENT "Like all the best thrillers, 'The Crazies' abuts believability... The big difference between Mr. Romero's film and Mr. Eisner's -- which is so intelligent you fear the fanboys will scatter -- is that Mr. Eisner never gives us the military's point of view.... And 'The Crazies' is all the scarier for it." (Read the full review...) 260 words, 02/26/10
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