Pontypool 2009

David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Pontypool is, in all senses, brain food -- and juicy. Read more

Noel Murray, AV Club: The film works as a tour de force for McHattie -- a veteran character actor making the most of his character's long, fluid monologues -- and as a sly commentary on journalistic responsibility. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Think of this witty, economically gory little tour de force as 28 Days Later written by 
linguist Noam Chomsky. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: For a while, this claustrophobic little horror movie is a dark little treat. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: A horror flick that's all talk and (almost) no action? The risk pays off better than you'd think. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: What's a zombie movie without zombies? A dull zombie movie. Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: If it wasn't so boring, the dialogue would be a laugh a minute. The acting is so abominable that the cast is better off unmentioned. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: If you're a devotee of the deranged mind of Canadian indie auteur Bruce McDonald, then I can just tell you that he's made a horror movie (kind of) and that Pontypool is it. Read more

Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: Pontypool is ultimately a testament to its frequently besieged director's audacity and vision. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: The judicious use of humour makes the fear seem all the more real. Read more

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: The kind of heady independent horror that scares critics more than fans, starts with the cocksureness of Talk Radio and heads for the seismic territory of something like Tracy Letts's psychomeltdown Bug. Read more

Nigel Floyd, Time Out: This cerebral horror movie plays Scrabble with the genre's cinematic lingo. Read more

Rob Nelson, Variety: However shrewdly contrived to keep its budget low, Pontypool, set almost entirely in a basement radio station, is a zombie flick sans bite. Read more

Melissa Anderson, Village Voice: For a film about the perils of too much talk, there's quite a lot of babbling presented as profundity. Read more