Even if it delivers a number of expected jokes and gags, there's enough surprising elements that are brought to life by an immensely talented cast of comedians to entirely elevate the material.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 20, 2023

In the long tradition of zombie metaphors, the whole movie stands as an allegory for dealing with the heartache of loss, be it the loss of life, or simply a bad breakup where the other party seems to become a raging monster afterward.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 5, 2022

Dane DeHaan and Aubrey Plaza go for the jugular with undead laughs in a zombie rom-com.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 26, 2021

Offers up something different and a little scary. Beth's return from the dead works quite brilliantly as a metaphor on the strong feelings that typify teenage love.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 2, 2021

Baena's comical mourning period marks a fine return to the personal zombie movie - one that's not been seen since 2004's Shaun of The Dead.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 15, 2019

A zombie film lacking in brains is nothing new, but this derivative, clunky, albeit faintly charming pastiche is a totally forgettable experience that proves "sometime dead is bettah".

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 3, 2019

Life After Beth is well-made, has some good moments and is worth seeing for Reilly alone. It just doesn't fully embrace its horror aspects, while still wanting to own them, and that comes across more as ambivalence than uniqueness.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 11, 2019

Amusing and charming little rom-zom-com, though perhaps a little too indie for its own good.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 2, 2018

[Aubrey Plaza] clearly has fun with her undead role.

| Aug 21, 2018

This is a weird mess from start to finish.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 19, 2018

If any of this sounds funny: it isn't. In fact, it's pretty sad.

| Aug 22, 2017

Whilst not truly awful it just didn't work well on any level for me and it missed most of its marks.

| Nov 14, 2016

Going in expecting one thing and getting another is always going to throw you off.

| Sep 20, 2016

Life After Beth remains a mildly funny film in search of a director with some bite.

| Original Score: C- | Jun 21, 2016

Plaza gives the film its motor, and if Baena's control of the material is occasionally uncertain, 'Life After Beth' plays best when it feeds off her manic, gonzo energy, and runs with it.

| Jun 18, 2016

Life After Beth is an irritatingly undeveloped project. A charming cast and a few moments of inspired lunacy make it passingly worthwhile for genre fans.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 1, 2014

At least it strays from the well-worn romantic comedy formula, but this sketchy tale of suburban teenage obsession struggles to expand its one-joke premise.

| Oct 31, 2014

Though it stumbles in some cases, "Life After Beth" is a solid zombie romance with some real teeth to it.

| Oct 12, 2014

Getting people in creepy makeup to gurn and shuffle and get shot isn't automatically scary plus hilarious.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 5, 2014

Plaza steals the show with one foot in the grave, her rotting heroine ricocheting between adolescent snarkiness and cadaverous rage, a lethal combination of which no one around her has the measure.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 5, 2014