The Crazies: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 13 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 144 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

42

Here's what I can say for sure about the humanoid attackers in the new version of The Crazies: They're not very interesting.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Mike Hale New York Times (Top Critic)

40

The problem with The Crazies? Not crazy enough.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Peter Bradshaw Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)

60

Some efficient genre thrills.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Claudia Puig USA Today (Top Critic)

63

The Crazies is familiar B-movie fare, but it's also lively fun and presented with well-paced flair. Be sure to watch it in a safe and contained area.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Dan Kois Washington Post (Top Critic)

50

Adapted from horror master George A. Romero's micro-budget 1973 classic, The Crazies delivers some satisfying scares but skims blithely over the darker ramifications of its story.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Ty Burr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

75

The Crazies does what an exploitation movie should: It gets in, it scares you silly, and it gets out, all while playing fair by the audience.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Joe Neumaier New York Daily News (Top Critic)

20

It devolves to simple run-and-hide cliches, usually accompanied by jarring musical jolts.
Full Review » 2 years ago
John Anderson Wall Street Journal (Top Critic)

The big difference between Mr. Romero's film and Mr. Eisner's -- which is so intelligent you fear the fanboys will scatter -- is that Mr. Eisner never gives us the military's point of view.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Amy Biancolli Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

38

Romero had quite a lot on his mind, back in the day: Vietnam, the Kent State shootings, a wicked distrust of the military and the Man in general. Eisner has almost nothing on his mind.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Kathleen Murphy MSN Movies (Top Critic)

10

Even on the level of killer-virus-gone-wild gore-fest, The Crazies as rejiggered by Eisner is a dud.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

63

The last thing I need is another Jump Out/ Loud Noise/Alarming Chord Movie.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

It should not be judged for what it is not. But nearly everything about it works.
Full Review » 2 years ago
J. R. Jones Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

[A] respectable update.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

63

Director Breck Eisner cranks up the gore to levels that are overpowering and unpalatable.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

88

This remake of George A. Romero's 1973 biological warfare shocker is a trim, taut, terrifying essay in homespun horror.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Adam Graham Detroit News (Top Critic)

42

If there's a message in all this, it's buried in blood splatter. Which is fine, but makes The Crazies more disappointing than if it had less lofty goals.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Bill Goodykoontz Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

70

In the big picture, the government is the bad guy. In the moment, however, the school principal with a blood-drenched pitchfork will do quite nicely, thank you.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Dennis Harvey Variety (Top Critic)

Eisner and his scenarists (Scott Kosar, Ray Wright) make changes mostly for the better, ramping up the horror factor via tighter focus on the imperiled locals and the requisite hike in gory violence.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Kyle Smith New York Post (Top Critic)

38

Even for a horror movie, The Crazies is a bore, and we're talking about the most boring genre this side of dysfunctional-family indie drama.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

50

The Crazies struggles to find novelty and laughs, and must battle the overwhelming sense that we've been here, seen this too often and too recently to experience any real surprises.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Linda Barnard Toronto Star (Top Critic)

75

Eisner brings plenty of tension and some gratifying scares amid the ordinariness of Main Street U.S.A., clapboard farmhouses and wide fields.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Eric D. Snider Film.com (Top Critic)

67

Tense, exciting, and occasionally very scary.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Rick Groen Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

50

The blood is certainly convincing these days, but it generally flows only in the safest and most inoffensive, uncontroversial directions.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Dana Stevens Slate (Top Critic)

The filmmakers seem less clear on what really made those early Romero films great, which is something that, by definition, can't be re-created by any level of loving craftsmanship: They were timely.
Full Review » 2 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

63

A slicker production than the original but some of the grit is gone.
Full Review » 2 years ago