The Girl with All the Gifts (2017)

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

I got that the movie was trying to say it is more sophisticated than the average zombie movie, but for me it was nothing but rubbish

A truly amazing performance given by everyone in this movie, Moving background music that seems to fit perfectly, A new and interesting take on the Zombie apocalypse genre. Based on the book of the same title by M. R. Carey.My only nit pick is the moldy zombies (hungrys) costume/ make up was not Spectacular but they still did an amazing job considering it is not CGI and there would have been sooo many actors/actresses who would have to have the intense bubbly makeup put on. i imagine this would have taken quite some time. However the outstanding performances and general feel given from the movie far out weighs the negatives. I highly recommend watching this film.I am not sure if the reference to Ancient Greek Myths is used in the book but it is brilliantly used in the movie.This one goes in my personal 'best movies of all time' list.

I loved this movie. Sort of had an underlying theme like a (good) M. Night Shamylan movie. I wasn't expecting the end and it wasn't until after the movie was over that I found out it was a book... I always like reading the book first.Anyways, the end is not bad. It is the best part of the movie! At face value it can seem sad or upsetting but it is actually quite creative.

When you compare something like 28 Days Later to World War Z, the former is head and shoulders above the latter. There is something about the backdrop of England (maybe because I live there) and a smaller budget that makes these films much more terrifying. In this iteration, a mutated fungal disease has turned the human race into flesh-eating...wait for it..."hungries". Some children are immune to it and are able to interact with the environment whilst still having the infection. So essentially half "hungry" and half human. Can they be trusted? That is the question. I really liked the atmosphere to this film, the aesthetic appeal felt like the video game The Last of Us. The production design of post-apocalyptic England looked great, the surge of environmental succession in urban settlements felt fitting. The makeup for the "hungries" was realistic...in a horrific kind of way. The cast was excellent, Gemma Arterton, Paddy Considine and Glenn Close were all dependable and brought much needed humanisation to the story. Newcomer Sennia Nanua was able to hold her own against these experienced actors, I thought she performed well. The story in itself is basically survival. Both for the human race and Melanie's (Nanua's character) own future, so there is an internal conflict. Unfortunately, that conflict isn't well presented and I'm sure everyone who has seen it knows that the ending was...an interesting choice to say the least. I won't ruin it but a decision is made out of nowhere, it felt rather out of place. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it. The script is concise, perhaps too concise to the point where our characters are considered monotonous. This is definitely more of a visual story, and the eerie musical score helps elevate the creep factor substantially. I found it to be hypnotic. This is a good little zombie flick that has excellent technical aspects, although the execution of the ending is questionable.