The Revenant 2009

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: This small sleeper delivers a surprising number of pleasingly putrid punch lines. Read more

Noel Murray, AV Club: Wylde has a scruffy wit not unlike a young Michael Keaton, and he and Anders make a winning pair as they tool around L.A., killing gangsters and guzzling booze and blood. Read more

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: It just sort of hangs around, trying to find its way, fun at times but mostly kind of lost. Read more

Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter: Ultra-gory horror comedy squanders its intriguing premise of crime-stopping vigilante zombies with its uneven execution. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: It's not hard to imagine this becoming a cult favorite. Read more

Scott Tobias, NPR: Its anti-war sentiments are trafficked in like a subterfuge that blows up with unexpected force. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: By the middle of the second hour, you'll be wishing a zombie would just chomp off your head to end the pain. Read more

Sara Stewart, New York Post: About 30 minutes too long and somewhat clumsily executed, this zombie's-eye-view story still manages to evoke the comic and splattery spirit of the best '80s cult horror flicks. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: One of the funniest and most telling bromance comedies in the recent wave, one in which one-half of the dudely couple is a decomposing undead creature who's returned from the grave with yellowish eyeballs and a really bad smell. Read more

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Chris Packham, Village Voice: The Revenant kind of aspires to be a horror-comedy in the vein of Shaun of the Dead but keeps tripping on its own misanthropy. Read more