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Life After Beth (15)

Comedy, Horror, Romance

A young man's recently deceased girlfriend mysteriously returns from the dead, but he slowly realizes she is not the way he remembered her.


The critical consensus

There are pleasures to be found, including Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s ominous electric-guitar score, but Life After Beth is one or two re-writes away from where it needs to be.

**(*)(*)(*)Stephen Carty, Flix Capacitor, 29/09/2014

Runs out of ideas, and brains, long before the end.

**(*)(*)(*)Siobhan Synnot, The Scotsman, 29/09/2014

A romantic-comedy to die for… It’s dead funny… etc., etc. DeHaan and Plaza ace it in a sure-footed zombie movie more interested in heart than braaaaains.

****(*)Jamie Graham, Total Film, 29/09/2014

We must surely now be getting close to some sort of zombie saturation point, with even the zomromcom becoming a distinct subsubgenre. On Beth’s evidence, however, there’s life in the undead yet.

****(*)Owen Williams, Empire Online, 29/09/2014

Life after Life After Beth? Not great.

**(*)(*)(*)Rebecca Ellis, Little White Lies, 01/10/2014

Zach and Beth’s creepy reunion is entertaining enough, but once we’re back in standard zombie-outbreak territory of knockabout farce, with lots of extras stumbling around, things just get a bit lazy and cliched.

**(*)(*)(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 02/10/2014

Smart ideas and frantic, screwball comedy are deftly sustained as the stakes are raised and everyone starts to realise that life with Beth will never be the same again.

***(*)(*)Daily Express, 03/10/2014

It should be fun but is slow, dull and poorly plotted.

**(*)(*)(*)Henry Fitzherbert, Daily Express, 05/10/2014

Aubrey Plaza’s back-from-the-dead girlfriend is terrifyingly good in this latest addition to the genre.

***(*)(*)Mark Kermode, The Observer, 05/10/2014


Features about Life After Beth (15)

Interview: Jeff Baena discusses new film Life After Beth

Niki Boyle, The List, 19/09/2014

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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