It’s fun but isn’t fresh in the slightest, which feels like a missed opportunity... If you want an innovative, meta zombie comedy that celebrates filmmaking, you should probably check out One Cut of the Dead.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 25, 2024

If you've never seen the original, Final Cut offers up all the same bonkers twists, surprisingly multilayered performances and eruptions of myriad bodily fluids.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 8, 2023

In the end, even though it may seem unbelievable, the film takes a humanistic and affectionate turn which radically contrasts with the start of the film, and that additionally, connects to The Artist. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 5, 2023

I loved Shin'ichirô Ueda’s One Cut of the Dead and put it on my top 10 list for 2018. And while I enjoyed the remake, it will not be making this year's 10 best.

| Sep 15, 2023

There’s an intentionality and specificity within each frame that serves to both honor the source material and satirize an industry that perpetually mines itself for “new ideas.”

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 10, 2023

This is a very faithful adaptation that retains the affable spirit of a movie relying on a heavy metatextual element to deliver a unique story about the undead.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 27, 2023

I would recommend people watch it and skip the first 34 minutes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 25, 2023

It’s never much more than a love letter to crap-making, the film reserves its modest beating heart for the strange and exultant camaraderie crew members feel on the set of even the crummiest project, a forged-by-fire feeling that can mystify non-crew.

| Jul 25, 2023

It's very short, socially conscious and all about the movie industry.

| Jul 22, 2023

A film that becomes increasingly enjoyable as it proceeds.

| Original Score: B | Jul 20, 2023

Hazanavicius embraces the mess and the art form, and everyone is clearly having the time of their lives making this thing.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 19, 2023

The most satisfying way to watch this zombie-themed comedy horror likely would be to go in without any foreknowledge.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 18, 2023

Not only does the remake out-meta the original; it is much more clever and satisfying than the similarly themed Matrix: Resurrection.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 18, 2023

Missing the original may be a plus but Hazanavicius' meta-layered remake of One Cut of the Dead still has many humorous pleasures and a surprisingly moving finale in these times as a testament to the joy of an independent crew creating a little miracle.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 17, 2023

It’s a fast, not as cheap, and much better than decent cover version of another song, one that knows very well that it’s a cover version.

| Jul 14, 2023

This trashy, goofy, giddy, sloppy gore-fest isn’t so different from “The Artist” after all. They both endear us to the behind-the-scenes struggles of, well, the artist, or in this case, these floundering and far-less-talented artistes.

| Jul 14, 2023

At nearly two hours, the joke wears thin, and what seemed moderately ingenious in the Japanese version grows slapdash here, lacking any real point. It’s not bad, but these people should be capable of much better.

| Jul 14, 2023

Final Cut is a mess, but it charms in its last act which creates a strong sense of community amid all of the chaos, actor tantrums, spilled bodily fluids, and copious fake blood. The film also benefits from Duris’s manic performance.

| Jul 14, 2023

Being the savvy crowd-pleasing hack he is, Hazanavicius can’t resist banking his story in a cheesy, maudlin father-daughter bonding arc over the love of moviemaking.

| Original Score: C | Jul 14, 2023

More polished than the original, this labored version struggles to distinguish itself despite some scattered big laughs and the requisite blood for genre devotees.

| Jul 14, 2023