Synopsis
In a small peaceful town, zombies suddenly rise to terrorize the town. Now three bespectacled police officers and a strange Scottish morgue expert must band together to defeat the undead.
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Cast
- Bill MurrayChief Cliff Robertson
- Adam DriverOfficer Ronnie Peterson
- Tilda SwintonZelda Winston
- Tom WaitsHermit Bob
- Chloë SevignyOfficer Mindy Morrison
- Steve BuscemiFarmer Frank Miller
- Danny GloverHank Thompson
- Selena GomezZoe
- Caleb Landry JonesBobby Wiggins
- Austin ButlerJack
Recommendations
- 80
The Telegraph
This is a winningly eccentric film, as attuned in its own way to the rhythms of ordinary life as Jarmusch and Driver’s (even better) 2016 feature Paterson. But there is a pessimism gnawing away in its gut that can’t be laughed off. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
It’s a minor, but most edible, bloody bonbon. - 70
Screen Daily
The film’s scattershot humour doesn’t always land, but even when it does it’s merely masking what is ultimately a gloomy portrait of our walking-dead existence. - 67
IndieWire
If Jarmusch’s latest often feels as though it lacks a pulse, this star-studded parable is held together by one consistent truth: When Hell is full, the dead will walk the Earth. And when the Earth is fucked, the living will do whatever they can to sleepwalk through the nightmare. - 60
The Guardian
Jim Jarmusch’s undeadpan comedy is laconic, lugubrious and does not entirely come to life, despite many witty lines and tremendously assured performances by an A-list cast. - 50
Variety
The Dead Don’t Die fancies itself a cutting-edge macabre comedy, but the truth is that it’s behind the curve of pop culture. That’s why it’s a disappointing trifle. - 50
The A.V. Club
The film feels like a creative resignation, too, meeting the end of the world with a shrug of tepid postmodern shtick. It puts despair itself in quotation marks. - 50
Los Angeles Times
You can share Jarmusch’s despair — I certainly do — and still find its expression here too tired, bloodless and self-satisfied by half.
