The film’s aesthetic of glacial blue-steel tones and generic heavy metal is distinctive only insofar as it remains comprehensively plagiaristic.
Constant Gardener is rather turgid and misguided for something that’s supposed to inspire self-righteous anger.
Roger Michell’s direction can only be described as bourgeois.
Clearly in adoration of the George A. Romero zombie films, Shaun of the Dead is a playful spoof of the slow walking undead.
Feel-good schmaltz creeps into every nook and cranny of writer-director Richard Curtis’s Love Actually.
The film takes the fetishization of the vampire in contemporary pop culture quite literally.