Marco Beltrami’s score is excellent for the genre and the environment he’s given to work with...

| Original Score: A- | Aug 19, 2024

Successfully captures the fragmented and anthological nature of the source material, with the scope and scale managing to deliver exciting sequences not often seen in low-budget zombie fare.

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

The well-filmed genial ending makes us realize the weaknesses of what preceded it. Finally, the zombies are scary. But what are we afraid of? There isn't one single interesting character in the entire movie. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 7, 2023

Though it contains a few impressive set-pieces and some engaging individual sequences, the overall effect is flat and unmemorable.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 2, 2022

...intense, fun, and most importantly a well structured and well told story.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 21, 2022

[Marc] Forster proves adept at choreographing the chaos of a world overrun by the hive behavior of zombie masses and creating a cinematic order to the presentation...

| Jul 5, 2022

"World War Z" will either be the saturated peak of excess before the trend's inevitable downfall or the newest tipping point and springboard to bigger and better things for the zombie craze.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 26, 2022

Stilted dialogue and a meandering plot capped by an insouciant epilogue suffocate the originality of what is almost a family-friendly zombie movie.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 4, 2020

Clearly a passion project for Pitt.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 27, 2020

...the most expensive zombie movie ever made...an odious movie...

| Sep 17, 2020

World War Z could have ended up going down in flames, but it turned out to be one of the more entertaining movies of the summer.

| Jul 18, 2020

A mess, but also a surprisingly effective hybrid of action and horror.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 8, 2020

World War Z is the zombie film for people who are too afraid to watch zombie films.

| Original Score: 2.2/5 | Nov 19, 2019

It will stress you out. It will mess you up. But you're still going to love living through every last dismembered bit of World War Z.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 6, 2019

World War Z is not the complete, absolute disaster tales of its production suggested may come to pass (what with an entirely reshot third act). But that's the limpest compliment that can be given.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 27, 2019

Like it or not-and I don't love it-World War Z does get under your skin.

| Aug 6, 2019

Moviegoers should run, not shamble, towards the nearest multiplex.

| Jul 30, 2019

This entry into the summer blockbuster season features some really great action sequences mixed with a little more intelligent banter than one might expect from your typical popcorn fare. It's kind of an art house version of a zombie flick.

| Apr 10, 2019

World War Z didn't need to be a splatter-fest, but for the genre, it seems over-sanitized.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 26, 2019

Bottom line, it's pretty entertaining as a summer flick, but it's hard to take seriously, and if you're a true zombie fan, you may be disappointed.

| Jan 26, 2019