Susie Porter, Anthony Hayes and David Gulpilil are among the excellent supporting cast in an uncommonly thoughtful spin on the genre.

| Jan 5, 2019

It's actually very powerful.

| Aug 28, 2018

Cargo's big drawcard is its sheer humanity. There's a lot of tragedy on show here, and you'll have to be made of stern stuff indeed to make it through this outback odyssey without a few tears.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 14, 2018

Cargo doesn't often satisfy on the genre's more sensational vectors. There are no hordes, few gouts of creative gore and a limited sense of danger.

| May 23, 2018

Cargo, in common with the best zombie films, is not really about voracious bloodsuckers; it's about the degradation of the environment, racism and the importance of family.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 18, 2018

Perhaps the highest compliment I can pay it is that I think George A. Romero himself would have liked it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 18, 2018

Cargo is proof, if it were needed, that Freeman can carry his own movies.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 17, 2018

Cargo is a zombie movie made for viewers who don't like zombie movies.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 16, 2018

Been there, undead that.

| May 16, 2018

Co-directors Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke (the latter of whom wrote the screenplay) sacrifice some tension with their more character-based approach, but the cumulative effect is emotionally powerful.

| May 16, 2018

The Australian setting brings a fresh, and epic, quality to this now done-to-death genre, and the directors introduce a few nice new kinks to the zombie mythology.

| Original Score: B | May 14, 2018

From Romero's original zombie series to the films it inspired, this type of horror succeeds when it laces its scares with biting social commentary, and Cargo utilizes this formula to great success.

| Original Score: A- | May 9, 2018

Thoomi and Andy become important to each other, but neither really understands or connects with the other in any but the shallowest ways, and the way she feels like a plot device more than an integral part of the story is a significant flaw.

| Apr 25, 2018

Ramke and Howling have created a distinctive vision of the zombie genre that's true to its Romero-cemented history of subversion, yet resists his thirst for onscreen carnage.

| Apr 25, 2018

This familiar saga eschews jolting scares for survival-esque (and dark-heart-of-man) thrills, relying largely on Freeman's compelling lead turn to set it apart from the genre.

| Apr 24, 2018

Cargo makes the mistake of benching its menace, banishing the undead to blurred shots on the horizon, while doggedly pursuing its theme.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 23, 2018

Cargo is a very strong, at times stirring achievement: a zombie film with soul and pathos.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 8, 2017