Warm Bodies (2013)

All Critics (163) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (130) | Rotten (33)

It's all very silly and sweet in that indie-nostalgic way that Levine ('The Wackness' and '50/50') has made his own.

February 5, 2013 Full Review

Cath Clarke

Time Out

Top Critic

This is a bloody fresh twist on the zombie genre.

February 3, 2013 Full Review

Richard Roeper

Richard Roeper.com

Top Critic

Warm Bodies is a funnier and pleasantly cheaper-grade movie than Twilight that aims to draw in both Bella & Edward lovers and haters.

February 3, 2013 Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

Warm Bodies even suggests that true love can help the right zombie grow a new heart. That's a con job that makes Bodies lukewarm at best.

February 2, 2013 Full Review

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

Top Critic

Though R's mind is nimble in (very witty) voiceover, out loud he can only express himself in a series of groans and grumbles--as touching a metaphor for love-struck adolescence as we may see at the movies this year.

February 1, 2013 Full Review

Christopher Orr

The Atlantic

Top Critic

"Warm Bodies" sounds a lot better in theory than it turns out to be in practice.

February 1, 2013 Full Review

Andrew O'Hehir

Salon.com

Top Critic

Don't think too hard, just enjoy a zombie movie with a twist to go with its 'Walking Dead' charm.

April 23, 2013 Full Review

Bruce Bennett

Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

Not too horrific, despite a few early attacks and munchings, this is worth it for the music, the genre joking, Palmer's cool performance and Hoult's committed turn as 'R', easily the sweetest zombie in all cinema.

April 14, 2013 Full Review

David 'Mad Dog' Bradley

Rip It Up

A fun mashing of genres that joins the spate of recent films that recasts traditional movie ghouls as misunderstood outsiders. Seems that even the Undead need love.

April 12, 2013 Full Review

Jim Schembri

3AW

To call this an unlikely love story is an understatement, but it is precisely this level of weirdness that makes the romance between R and Julia so surprisingly touching.

April 12, 2013 Full Review

Tim Martain

The Mercury

With more romantic mushiness than the brain-chomping kind.

April 11, 2013 Full Review

Steve Newall

Flicks.co.nz

My zombie boyfriend.

April 11, 2013 Full Review

Cynthia Fuchs

PopMatters

If you love the un-dead humour of Zombieland and Shaun of the Dead, but want an Edward Scissorhands-meets-Romeo and Juliet style romance on the side - then this is the film for you.

April 11, 2013 Full Review

Yasmin Vought

MovieFIX

Sometimes feels like the script doesn't quite know where it's going but has plenty of fun getting there.

April 11, 2013 Full Review

Marc Fennell

Triple J

...the film's horror element is hamstrung by its bloodless rating, so the filmmakers often focus on the immaculate cheekbones of their leads...

April 10, 2013 Full Review

Adam Ross

The Aristocrat

While Warm Bodies is more slanted towards comedy and romance rather than horror, it remains true to the zombie genre while pushing it in an unexpected direction.

April 8, 2013 Full Review

Thomas Caldwell

Cinema Autopsy

It's your classic tale of 'boy meets girl, boy tries not to eat girl'.

April 7, 2013 Full Review

Tom Glasson

Concrete Playground

An occasionally funny romantic zombie comedy (or rom-zom-com) that offers a fresh twist on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

April 7, 2013 Full Review

Ed Gibbs

The Sun Herald

Most disturbingly, defence against the dead people is guns; the fact that this is common silliness in zombie movies doesn't make it any better ... It reconfirms the gun-obsession that grips America; they even shoot dead people

April 6, 2013 Full Review

Andrew L. Urban

Urban Cinefile

Trying valiantly to replicate the charm of the enigmatic Twilight romance in a zombie reality, this adaptation stiffens like a corpse thanks to its silly script, and sadly neither Teresa Palmer or Nicholas Hoult are any match for Bela and Edward

April 6, 2013 Full Review

Urban Cinefile Critics

Urban Cinefile

Not a particularly substantial film, but a charming, lovable one.

April 3, 2013 Full Review

Meredith Borders

Badass Digest

Takes the notion of zombie meets girl an turns it into something that's so crazy that it works

April 2, 2013 Full Review

Cameron Williams

The Popcorn Junkie

A funky, fresh tale of adolescent self-doubt and blossoming love funneled through the prism of post-apocalyptic zombiedom, Warm Bodies conjures a lovely, commingled tone of wistfulness and witticism.

March 15, 2013 Full Review

Brent Simon

Shared Darkness

I somehow think this "sensitive parable" took a little too much from Scott Pilgrim.

March 15, 2013 Full Review

Sara Maria Vizcarrondo

Movies With Butter

The movie doesn't stand out much in memory - nothing in it really pops - but it's enjoyable while it lasts.

March 13, 2013 Full Review

Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

...smart, funny, knowing remix of zombie tropes, post-Twilight self-awareness, and youthful yearning for a vague past where, clearly, everything was better. It's a disarming jolt of February awesomeness and the only Valentine's Day movie you need to see.

March 9, 2013 Full Review

Dave White

Movies.com

• 1. Julie: It's been so long since I had a beer
  – Submitted by Josh G (57 days ago)
• 1. R: This date isn't going well. I want to die all over again.
  – Submitted by Kyrie M (2 months ago)
• 1. R: God we move slow. This could take a while.
  – Submitted by Torey W (2 months ago)
• 1. R: Jesus these guys look awful.
  – Submitted by Torey W (2 months ago)
• 1. R: Oh man, they call these guys bonies. They don't bother us much but they'll eat anything with a heartbeat. I mean, I will too but at least I'm conflicted about it.
  – Submitted by Torey W (2 months ago)
• 1. R: What am I doing with my life? I'm so pale. I should get out more. I should eat better. My posture's horrible. I should stand up straighter. People would respect me more if I stood up straighter. What's wrong with me? I just want to connect. Why can't I connect with people? Oh, right, it's cause I'm dead
  – Submitted by Torey W (2 months ago)