Twenty-eight Days Later is a zombie flick, which makes it my kind of movie-dare I say, our kind of movie. No cinema zombie ever shambles into view without its agenda.

| Mar 16, 2020

The possibility of renewal suggested by the survivors' attempts to start over certainly points toward hope. However, the circularity of the movie's plot is most likely to inspire dismay.

| Mar 22, 2018

The best purely British horror/science-fiction film in decades. And the first great apocalypse movie of the new millennium.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 30, 2014

The movie's craft makes the dread of a killer virus contagious: viewers may feel they have come down with a case of secondhand SARS or sympathetic monkeypox.

| Oct 6, 2013

Heedlessly derivative though it may be, 28 Days Later does what it sets out to do and then some -- scare us out of our wits, then get us to apply those wits to an uncommonly intelligent and provocative zombie flick.

Full Review | Oct 6, 2013

Later does a lot of things right, which makes its third-act missteps even more frustrating.

| Oct 6, 2013

The picture is twitchy and annoying, flecked with blood and half-digested ideas, and too much is left unexplained.

Full Review | Oct 6, 2013

Danny Boyle's purposeful direction and Mark Tildesley's imaginative and resourceful production design keep this fresh and edgy; the images of a wasted London and the details of a paramilitary organization in the countryside are both creepy and persuasive.

| Oct 6, 2013

What also makes 28 Days Later effective, and sets it apart from other thrillers, is that it makes you care about the characters.

Full Review | Oct 6, 2013

Viral apocalypse, zombies, and terror. For adults.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 26, 2010

Danny Boyle has got his edge back.

| Jun 24, 2006

Impeccably acted, scored and edited, Boyle's film hits to the jugular like an uppercut from a heavyweight champion leaving me more than a bit cowered by the time of its bittersweet coda.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 9, 2005

It makes for a more intimate brand of horror, one we can't explain away by pretending we're watching the same old well-oiled Hollywood malarkey.

Full Review | Aug 7, 2004

Boyle can't quite come up with anything to match the eerie brilliance of his opening. Never mind. It's all you need to see that his career is finally back on track.

| Sep 5, 2003

In the old days, a feverish programmer like 28 Days Later would end up on the bottom half of a double bill.

| Jul 1, 2003

In its blessed stretches of quietude, 28 Days Later offers a heartfelt rumination on humans' ability to build new families when old ones are lost.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 1, 2003

... really creepy and really scary ...

Full Review | Jun 30, 2003

I enjoyed watching this film, mostly because Murphy and Harris make such an appealing central couple to build a new world around. But nobody should mistake this for a killer-zombie movie with real soul.

| Jun 28, 2003

Detestable, not just because its action is so vile or its technique so crude, but because its moral imagination is so impoverished.

| Jun 27, 2003

Director Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland have rebounded smartly from the bloated Leonardo DiCaprio debacle that was The Beach, their previous collaboration.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 27, 2003