Suspenseful and thought-provoking, The Cured is a serious, engaged horror movie. More upsetting than scary, it ratchets up the tension unsettlingly. There's life in zombies yet.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 12, 2018

My tolerance for zombie acting and zombie drama in the style of Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later is never all that high, and the tropes are a bit familiar here.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 11, 2018

Struggles to move beyond genre clichs.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 10, 2018

Though The Cured loses its way a little in the final act, it offers delicious variations that facilitate new (if not exactly fresh) flavours of creepiness and great scope for socio-political metaphor.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 2, 2018

At its best, it has the provocative cunning of a "Black Mirror" episode. Unfortunately, "The Cured" becomes less cerebral and more predictably action-oriented in its third act .

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 21, 2018

The feelings are right, and that's very much the main thing.

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

Debut director David Freyne has obviously seen entirely too many George Romero movies for his own good.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 8, 2018

As debuts go The Cured is a strong one, and I'm curious to see what Freyne has up his sleeve next. But while I do feel like those intrigued by the scenario will be satisfied, for my part I still couldn't help but want more.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 7, 2018

It's not that writer-director David Freyne is incapable of finesse - "The Cured" has long and affecting passages marked more by sadness and melancholy than horror - but he seems to have misjudged the overtone here.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 6, 2018

"The Cured" drops the politics to become a straight-up zombie flick not nearly as intriguing, though no doubt better for box office.

| Mar 1, 2018

The Cured is going to be a genre film to beat in 2018.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 23, 2018

... a pretty good notion, though nothing comes of it because the first-time filmmaker, David Freyne, has so many undigested ideas on his plate-guilt, innocence, bigotry, forgiveness, atonement and, if you please, a replaying of IRA strife.

| Feb 22, 2018

The confluence of rebellion, personal responsibility and genre violence never quite gels, perhaps because the realities of a zombie movie ultimately dictate where these things are headed.

| Feb 22, 2018

Anyone digging through the cemetery soil again had better have fresh ideas. "The Cured," the debut feature from David Freyne, has roughly two.

| Feb 22, 2018

Unfortunately, all of these factors fail to coalesce in the end, as the jumbled, manic finale builds to a messy implosion.

| Feb 21, 2018

It's a moody horror movie that favors metaphor over mayhem until its violent, chaotic final third, at which point the screaming starts in earnest.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 21, 2018

This rehabilitation of walking-dead tropes comes with unusual resonances.

| Oct 3, 2017

The Cured may owe much to viral shockers like 28 Days Later, but its political and personal insight elevates it alongside the best of contemporary European realism.

| Sep 26, 2017

Heartbreaking, compelling and terrifying, The Cured is a quick way to re-examine our capacity for forgiveness, tolerance and above all, fear

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 13, 2017

Mostly it plays as a somber drama about grief, guilt and self-loathing, with both lead figures shell-shocked in their way.

| Sep 13, 2017