{"id":675994,"date":"2025-06-19T02:08:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T23:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/28-years-later-what-the-critics-are-saying\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T02:08:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T23:08:26","slug":"28-years-later-what-the-critics-are-saying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/28-years-later-what-the-critics-are-saying\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201828 Years Later\u2019: What the Critics Are Saying"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tAfter more than two decades, director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland have returned to the world of the infected with 28 Years Later<\/em>, the long-incubating sequel to 2002\u2019s 28 Days Later<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film hosted its world premiere in London on Wednesday, with reviews from critics arriving shortly after \u2014 and so far the results are strong. With 78 reviews in, it stands at 95 percent critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes.<\/p>\n

\n\tRead on for a sampling of what critics are saying about the film, which opens Friday and stars newcomer Alfie Williams, Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Feinnes.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Hollywood Reporter<\/em>\u2018s David Rooney wrote, \u201cOne of the chief rewards of\u00a028 Years Later<\/em>\u00a0is that it never feels like a cynical attempt to revisit proven material merely for commercial reasons. Instead, the filmmakers app<\/a>ear to have returned to a story whose allegorical commentary on today\u2019s grim political landscape seems more relevant than ever. Intriguing narrative building blocks put in place for future installments mean they can\u2019t come fast enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRolling Stone<\/a><\/em>\u2018s David Fear wrote in his review of Boyle, \u201cThat he simply didn\u2019t retroactively ruin the first film by releasing a new franchise-expanding, Easter-egg hunt of an entry just for the sake of it would\u2019ve been enough. Yet the filmmaker and his collaborators have also deepened their vision of a world on the brink, adding in strong elements of British folk horror, anxiety over good-old-days nationalism and an emphasis on what happens to a generation growing up in the shadow of normalized chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWriting for Entertainment Weekly<\/a>,<\/em> Jordan Hoffman opined, \u201cStylistically, Boyle throws a lot of things into a blender here, and somehow it all works. Early scenes intercut stock footage of Brittania propaganda films, which has no other motivation than to provide a vibe. Every kill of an infected slams on the brakes with a freeze frame, and the editing takes an occasionally cavalier approach to presenting sequences linearly, opting instead for a flush of sensation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn his review for New York <\/em>magazine<\/a>, Bilge Ebir questioned if the film was hurt by it needing to set up a trilogy, with the critic writing, \u201cDespite several moving moments, and excellent performances from Fiennes and Taylor-Johnson, the film has an omnibus quality that makes it feel like a collection of loosely connected ideas instead of something that coheres into an actual vision, or even a story. Maybe it\u2019ll all come together in the end. Or maybe it\u2019s not supposed to. After all, what would be more appropriate for our moment than a franchise movie that devolves into a series<\/a> of anguished and disjointed screams?\u00a028 Years Later<\/em>\u00a0is choppy, muddled, strange, and not always convincing. But I\u2019m not sure I\u2019ll ever forget it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIndiewire<\/a><\/em>\u2018s David Ehrlich writes in his review, \u201cwith more earnest grace than any films have tried to humanize zombies before, 28 Years Later<\/em> is increasingly preoccupied with the idea that the difference between \u201cus\u201d and \u201cthem\u201d is only a matter of perspective. Honestly, I cringed at the movie\u2019s first indications that it was going to explore how the infected have evolved (so boring, so far removed from the primitivism of the original), but Garland\u2019s script iterates on that concept in such radical and unexpected ways that I couldn\u2019t help but surrender to its potential.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tI09\u2019s Germain Lussier writes<\/a> that the world-building answered questions he never thought to ask about a zombie-infected world: \u201cWhat would 28 years without humans do to an ecosystem? What human mistakes may have lingered over that time? What, if any, human traits do the zombies still carry with them? Is there a zombie pecking order?\u00a028 Years Later<\/em>\u00a0consistently fires on all cylinders but then also hits you with a moment or idea that pushes things to a whole new level, and you almost wish there was a whole movie just about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Associated Press<\/em><\/a>\u2018 Jake Coyle took issue with a visual style he called \u201cfrequently gratingly disjointed,\u201d but concluded, \u201cBuried in here are some tender reflections on mortality and misguided exceptionalism, and even the hint of those ideas make \u201c28 Years Later\u201d a more thoughtful movie than you\u2019re likely to find at the multiplex this time of year. This is an unusually soulful coming-of-age movie considering the number of spinal cords that get ripped right of bodies.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tVanity Fair<\/a><\/em>\u2018s Richard Lawson writes, \u201cThree quarters of the way through,\u00a028 Years Later<\/em>\u00a0slows the horror to become a rumination on death\u2019s inevitability and life\u2019s carrying on even in the grips of calamity. It\u2019s poignant in an odd way, positioned as it is in what is ostensibly a horror film. Really, Boyle\u2019s film is more post-apocalyptic anthropology than anything else, an alluring peer into a near future in which humanity is at a fraught crossroads. Which isn\u2019t to say that the film isn\u2019t frightening. There are myriad unbearably tense and disturbing scenes, steeped in the impossible dread of being stuck somewhere far from safety, surrounded by unseen things lurking in the shadows.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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