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The Girl with All the Gifts
NC16 (SINGAPORE)
2016
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The Girl with All the Gifts
Positive Reviews
93
Negative reviews
17
Average Rating
3.6
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3.5
They retain their intelligence and emotional capacity, sensitive and clever Melanie most of all.
Av Club
3.8
Paddy Considine splits the difference as a soldier who doesnt trust the so called Hungries.
EW
3.8
Just when you thought the zombie genre was out of ideas, along comes Colm McCarthys smart and engaging The Girl with All the Gifts, a film with echoes ..
Rogerebert
1.5
Few outside teen audiences will think Mike Careys adaptation of his own novel is anything more than another tired attempt to board the zombie bandwago ..
Variety
3.5
The Girl With All The Gifts is a thoughtful apocalyptic subversion, but the biggest praise goes to young Sennia Nanuas brilliant acting debut.
We Got This Covered
4.0
The Girl With All the Gifts is exactly the kind of genre picture the UK should be making: provocative, imaginative and unafraid to sink its teeth into ..
The Guardian
2.0
There are some startling and eerie moments in this YA style horror thriller, adapted by Mike Carey from his 2014 bestseller but some uncomfortable zom ..
The Guardian
1.9
Which isnt to say that we dont form a relationship with these creatures.
4.5
A smartly compelling, emotionally engaging and stylishly executed film ...
Screen Daily
4.0
Fortunately, every once in a while, a film comes along thats willing to take risks, evolve the formula, and give the stagnant genre a jolt in the ass.
Collider
4.5
Young actors are often a little unnatural, but thats exactly what Melanie is.
1.5
The Girl With All the Gifts doesnt really venture into new territory, but it does a decent job of reminding us why zombies are so scary, and so intere ..
The New York Times
4.3
A lulling, occasionally clunky penultimate act once they hit the city, where several prominent shops start to seem like obtrusive advertising rather t ..
IGN
4.0
Just when you thought zombie apocalypses had run out of fresh DNA, The Girl with all the Gifts comes up with a brand new evolution.
Telegraph
1.5
To Miss Justineau, shes a figure to nurture, even shed a tear over.
5.0
The best zombie ish apocalypse in years. Sennia Nanua is a major discovery, but its the dense social commentary and moral dilemmas that will haunt you ..
3.5
Director Colm McCarthy, whos best known from his British TV work on shows like Peaky Blinders, has made a gripping yarn on a low budget, distinguished ..
JoBlo
3.8
A wicked, gory and even occasionally funny take on George A. Romero.
The Globe And Mail
3.8
Its an unsettling picture, but also engrossing and emotive, handling expectation for gloom and doom with inspired dramatic depth and performances.
Blu Ray
4.4
The Girl with All the Gifts tells a familiar tale, but it doesnt matter.
Mark Reviews Movies
3.1
Istodors strong performance goes a long way towards perpetuating the films watchable atmosphere, and its worth noting, too, that the actors character ..
Reel Film Reviews
4.0
Working in a genre that has recently hit bottom with dreary parody and vacant spectacle, the director Colm McCarthy and his team have managed to wrang ..
The Times
3.8
Mixes horror, humor, and humanity with thrilling agility, all centered on a star making performance by newcomer Sennia Nanua.
Eric Ds Nider
4.0
It startles and chills before McCarthy offers genuine hope for humankind to define the best and most unusual zombie movie since 28 Days Later.
Radio Times
4.5
The film never skimps on the eating of brains and guts, as puddles of fresh blood are greedily lapped up by hungry Hungries, and it doesnt soft pedal ..
The Wrap
5.0
But that doesnt mean that it isnt going to make a deliberate attempt to broaden the idea of what human and humane mean, and in ways that may be very, ..
3.0
But it is an action packed and thoroughly enjoyable piece of commercial cinema that should keep those who like this shoot out, stand off, saloon bar k ..
Daily Mail
4.0
But The Girl With All The Gifts is far more than a sci fi horror film.
Daily Mail
5.0
With strikingly fresh imagery and exciting extrapolations of stock SF ideas, it takes you on a journey full of surprises that arent about cheap plot t ..
Flim List
1.5
It isnt groundbreaking, but it is still exceptionally rare to see a zombie film with a brain and a beating human heart.
Film Inquiry
3.0
The pictures scale and production design is to be applauded but ultimately it is an unsatisfying hybrid itself neither tense action thriller nor compe ..
Express
4.0
A promising subject and good performances but Imperium doesnt make the most of either.
Express
2.5
Ultimately, our monster childs coming of age holds more interest than slamming together science fiction babble with the drone of more gunfire.
The Film Stage
1.5
Theres a lot thats familiar about The Girl With All The Gifts, which adds echoes of Children of Men into its 28 Days Later inspired world.
Uproxx
4.0
Colm McCarthy fashions a terrifying alt future from confined spaces and group dynamics where another film maker might have lazily summoned a CGI vista ..
The Irish Times
3.2
Its all fairly interesting if less than captivating, driven mostly by Nanuas bright performance.
Detroit News
4.5
who want to curate quality horror and not just batter us with cash grabbing trash, cynically creating a cycle of cinema consumption that effectively c ..
4.0
Lone shots of an empty, overgrown London are impressive, and McCarthy doesnt hold back when it comes to the violence and blood.
4.0
Based on a 2014 novel by, M.R. Carey, director Colm McCarthy brings The Girl With All The Gifts to wonderful life in this movie adaptation.
Hey U Guys
4.0
Theyre called hungries, but potato/potahto: theyre fast zombies.)
Now Toronto
4.5
Third act goofiness aside, The Girl With All the Gifts is rarely less than an engaging experience.
Film School Rejects
4.5
The Girl With All the Gifts is one of that strain of peculiarly British horror that rather delights in transgressing the cozy catastrophe trope of, sa ..
Film Ink
5.0
...its a rare zombie movie that gets smarter as it goes along, and offers an ending that truly feels like a solid payoff
Ner Dist
4.5
The second she gets a whiff of Justineaus sweet, sweet un gelled skin, Melanies jaw snaps and pops, ready to bite; this is a dreadful sight worth wait ..
La Weekly
4.0
Parks advises discipline; Dr. Caroline Caldwell (Glenn Close), meanwhile, prefers dissection, hoping the kids brains will offer clues to cure a fungal ..
Games Radar
3.0
However, it all ends up like an extended episode of Stig of The Dump with garbled science.
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
4.5
This aint no date night/feel good/holding hands movie, boys and girls.
Star Burst Magazine
3.0
Some good stuff in here, but it never really gets better than good.
Lw Lies
3.0
At least one terrific and original set piece, some fascinating design, and, most intriguingly, an out of the box performance from Glenn Close, playing ..
Abc
4.5
She has thoughts and feelings and doesnt stumble around like an animated corpse.
Screen Crush
3.0
These fairytale flourishes, a superb soundtrack and a potent environmental message are the films finer qualities and source of its undeniable charm.
Independent Ie
3.0
So the film is involving and gripping even if, ultimately, there isnt much to it beyond a cool central idea.
Contact Music
3.5
While Girl may not be the scariest zombie movie in recent years, it makes a case for being the most thought provoking.
Film Racket
3.8
Its not every kid who greedily scarfs down a bowl of live mealworms.
Larsen On Film
2.0
Arterton charms king and audience in West End outing for the Globes jolly Restoration romp (pictured by Tristram Kenton) Saint Joan, Donmar Warehouse ..
The Arts Desk
4.0
Apart from some wide cinematic shots being quite poor CGI, this rarely matters and its lack of effects is often its greatest asset, as it allows the f ..
The Sun
4.5
The Girl With All The Gifts relies on classic zombie horror tropes for its tense thriller atmosphere, but it stands out due to its thoughtful concept ..
Daily Dot
3.5
The Girl with All the Gifts resists the temptation to become a young adult reimagining of 28 Days Later, instead emerging as an effectively atmospheri ..
Scmp
4.5
After all, hes created a zombie apocalypse thats both familiar and new.
Io9 Gizmodo
3.5
The Girl with All the Gifts spins a smart tale of species survival, with enough horror elements to keep genre fans happy.
Punch Drunk Critics
3.5
The result is a surprisingly rich cast of characters and situations that never turn out as expected.
Straits Times
3.0
As well as this, if youve got a trifecta of Arterton, Considine and Close and you dont utilise their full potential, disappointment abounds.
One Room With A View
3.8
Regrettably, McCarthy doesnt quite know how to make Careys dry humor work.
Daily Herald
2.0
In aspiring to present itself as a diverting mainstream action film, this only ever manages to be a diverting mainstream action film.
Scots Man
4.5
Its grim as hell The Girl With All The Gifts doesnt go in for schmaltzy American tales about redemption and heroism.
Metro
4.5
Both focus on a world decimated by a fungal infection thats turned humanity into hungry monsters.
The Daily Beast
2.0
But the film, directed by Colm McCarthy, carries many predictable markers of polished apocalypse movies and TV series that are so deliberate in making ..
Movie Mezzanine
4.5
The Girl with All the Gifts plays less like a straight guts and gore horror film (though theres plenty of that) and more like thought provoking scienc ..
Movie Mezzanine
3.0
Sadly, The Girl with All the Gifts doesnt make the most of its promising set up.
What So
4.0
And when it comes to the horror, McCarthy doesnt pull any punches.
Scifi Now
3.8
An effective and surprisingly intelligent exercise in sustained horror.
Seattle Times
3.0
Its easy to forget that Melanie isnt actually a little girlMiss Justineau and Sgt.
The Mary Sue
4.5
phenomenal, by turns glib, vulnerable, disconcertingly opaque and viscerally terrifying.
Film Journal International ..
3.8
THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS is a action horror knock out, competing for the most exciting film of the year.
Fresh Fiction
2.5
So dont expect Dawn of the Dead or The Walking Dead because youll be sorely disappointed.
Black Girl Nerds
4.0
For the most part ... this is a superior addition to the genre that offers much food for thought.
Sky
4.5
The Girl with All the Gifts is an extraordinary work that is both terrifying as a horror film and deeply effective as a very human story.
Third Coast Review
4.0
This thriller works because of its strong cast, particularly newcomer Nanua.
The New Paper
3.8
Its still a superb effort that breathes fresh life into cinematic zombie lore and one thats easy to recommend.
Cultured Vultures
3.0
The Girl with All the Gifts keeps a brisk pace and avoids chunky exposition.
Vue Weekly
3.8
HiT or Miss: The Girl With All the Gifts isnt an instant horror classic.
Hollywood Into To
3.8
We dont have to see whats outside to surmise that theres a crisis in the world.
Assignment X
1.5
As directed by Colm McCarthy, it is dully and ploddingly told, without imagination, suspense, tension, or any sense of mounting dread.
Spectator
3.8
Though The Girl with All the Gifts doesnt reinvent the zombie tale, theres a moving emotional core and it proves that the genre confines can still be ..
4.5
In addition to its innovative take on the zombie flick, Mike Careys script, based on his novel of the same name, sticks thanks to its unconventional e ..
L.A. Biz
3.5
The Girl with All the Gifts isnt quite a revelation, but its certainly a worthwhile attempt that almost reaches revelatory status.
FanboyNation.com
1.5
With its dystopian setting housing superhuman teens and zombies, The Girl With All the Gifts seems like a movie generated by a Young Adult Entertainme ..
Cinema Scope
4.5
If youre not a fan of flesh eater flicks by now, you surely wont be after seeing The Girl With All the Gifts.
Ear Of Newt
4.5
As much as I enjoyed watching a story based on cordyceps, researching the fungal scourge proved just as, if not more horrifying.
Pgh City Paper
4.0
Cauldwell doesnt see Melanie as human at all, but just as an experiment and a means to an end.
Caution Spoilers
3.5
A much more reflective film than most of the zombie films of the last decade, except for some examples like Train to Busan (2016).
Enfil Me
2.5
The Girl with All the Gifts starts off with quite a lot of potential in its first act, but unfortunately the story is taken in a clichd, bland, and ra ..
The Blus Pot
4.0
Also, watching Close go nuts while wildly stabbing zombies in the head wildly is my new favorite thing ever.
Daily Dead
3.2
The Girl With All the Gifts scores points with its impressive performances, creating a disquieting dystopia by tapping into something thats both thoro ..
Silver Screen Riot
3.0
An elegant and sensitive film, which doesnt insult the spectators intelligence or abuse of unnecessary effects.
El antepenúltimo mohicano ..
3.0
On the one hand, its an absorbing, electrifying film. On the other hand, however, the narrative that gives form seems to emerge from a universe of fic ..
4.0
A vein of characteristically British ingenuity runs through this adaptation of Mike Careys novel.
Fotogramas
1.5
Once thats revealed, the cussin and the brain eatin begins as the hungrys feast upon the base.
Bk Mag
3.0
The film is essentially a examination of conscience where the true executioners, the fear of the unknown and the instinct of survival, lead to a final ..
4.5
A film that every zombie movie lover must see and theres no point in comparison with the latest Resident Evil movie, no matter if its the most enterta ..
4.5
As an audience, we dont know what to think; weve yet to see anything outside the confines of Melanies captive life.
4.0
An engaging and provocative zombie flick, with a stand out debut performance from Sennia Nanua.
Wow 247
1.5
The british film is a new approach to the undead, but its initially interesting premise lasts only half hour.
El Pais (Spain)
1.5
The film is dark and goes all the places that conventionally would be steered away from.
Rogues Portal
4.5
Her strange diet notwithstanding, Melanie radiates a glad, springy agency.
4 Columns
4.5
What separates the film from the rest of the recycled zombies of our time is, on the one hand, the splendid cast and, on the other hand, the careful r ..
3.0
A film of great originality, as if it were a small scale metaphor of the planets current situation, where the one who is different is always an enemy.
El Mundo (Spain)
2.0
The Girl with All the Gifts may have been better suited for a TV series. As a feature, too much info falls through the cracks.
The Canadian Crew
3.0
Its how Nanua conveys this young brainiacs humanity, however, that allows McCarthys bleak morality tale and survival adventure to transcend genre clic ..
Times Colonist
1.5
I have to confess this 38 year old was pretty gripped by The Girl with All the Gifts and my suspicion is that even those teenagers who sneak in to see ..
MovieMail
5.0
The Girl with All the Gifts because it is a refreshing spin on zombies. It is by far one of the most layered zombie films I have come across.
Real Queen Of Horror
4.5
Ends up being situated to a subtle and sublime omni exterminator side of the recent zombie fantasies.
4.5
Because the other two new movies dont look very good, there really isnt much competition for the movie other than the returning films from last week, ..
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