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Philadelphia Inquirer by David Hiltbrand
Oddly enough, though Land of the Dead is more clever and grand than Romero's early classics, it is not as haunting.
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ReelViews by James Berardinelli
It's not startling or frightening enough.
90
George A. Romero shows 'em how it's done in Land of the Dead, resurrecting his legendary franchise with top-flight visuals, terrific genre smarts and tantalizing layers of implication.
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Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
Romero easily commands an enormous cast, a plethora of action sequences and a cornucopia of special effects -- some of them very gory -- and creates one darkly dazzling image after another that allows Land of the Dead to emerge without any nudging whatsoever as a bleakly humorous, hard-charging allegory.
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The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
One of the enormous pleasures of genre filmmaking is watching great directors push against form and predictability, as Mr. Romero does brilliantly in Land of the Dead. One thing is for sure: You won't go home hungry.
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Washington Post by Michael O'Sullivan
Land of the Dead is fairly intense. Intensely gory and violent, that is, as has come to be expected from the genre. It's just not very frightening. Not half as frightening as, say, last year's "Dawn of the Dead."
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The Hollywood Reporter by Michael Rechtshaffen
The latest installment could well be Romero's masterpiece. Taking full advantage of state-of-the-art makeup and visual effects, he has a more vivid canvas at his disposal, not to mention two decades worth of pent-up observations about American society.
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Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
Romero's newest is a horror movie for hard-core fans of the gory and the gruesome and a classic genre film for genre aficionados.
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Miami Herald by Rene Rodriguez
A perfectly adequate horror romp, but it's hard to imagine anyone remembering it five years from now.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker
The social commentary isn't subtle, but Romero delivers the goods so effectively that many won't even notice.