A zombie by any other name is still a zombie in this utterly routine horror pic.

| Sep 23, 2013

The filmmakers' aversion to any hint of storytelling originality means that the main impression "The Colony" leaves is one of almost stupefying over-familiarity.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 20, 2013

A screaming, lunging, chomping chase movie that has nothing new to bring to a genre that just won't die.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 20, 2013

It's somewhat low-rent and thoroughly humorless - hey, the future's not funny - and, in the manner of the genre, adamantly bleak.

| Original Score: D | Sep 20, 2013

Becomes yet another run-from-the-ghouls exercise, cheapening decent work by a good cast.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 19, 2013

The film strands its archetypal characters in a featureless danger zone and gives them overly familiar dialogue borrowed from a dozen other B-movies.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 19, 2013

Charlotte Sullivan looks really, really cute in blond dreadlocks. But she can't save the movie, nor can her impressive costars, Bill Paxton, Kevin Zegers, and Laurence Fishburne.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 19, 2013

Even those trapped and bored in a bunker, surrounded by frozen waste, would tire of this unoriginal sci-fi/horror hybrid.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 19, 2013

It's decently acted, delivers some well-executed jolts, doesn't insult the viewer's intelligence, and is mercifully free of ironic distance.

| Sep 17, 2013

Survival tale in the next ice age is dull and derivative.

| Sep 16, 2013

Greedily tries to cram every dystopian curse into one misbegotten plot, resulting in something wildly disjointed, even if its pieces arguably connect.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Sep 16, 2013

It's reminiscent of the more embarrassing excesses of the tax-shelter movies of 30 years ago.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 26, 2013

The Colony is a blue-bin blockbuster, a collection of recycled ideas of sci-fi thrillers past.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 25, 2013