The Cured
IFC Films | Release Date: February 23, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
57
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews
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8
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12
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Total FilmKevin HarleyMay 7, 2018
Over-ambitious perhaps, but Freyne’s intensely executed ‘infected’ fable packs tension, resonance, and clout. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyFeb 23, 2018
The result is a very creepy, suspenseful story that’s also a better-than-average character study. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Anne T. DonahueFeb 22, 2018
Heartbreaking, compelling and terrifying, The Cured is a quick way to re-examine our capacity for forgiveness, tolerance and above all, fear. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliFeb 22, 2018
The Cured suffers from a common marketing problem that afflicts many horror-cross-something hybrids: it’s at times too slow and existential for pure blood and gore lovers and too grotesque for those with a penchant for offbeat, idea-based allegories. Read full review
75
Rolling StoneDavid FearFeb 22, 2018
It's a moody horror movie that favors metaphor over mayhem until its violent, chaotic final third, at which point the screaming starts in earnest. A bit more balance between gnawing guilt and plain old gnawing would have done this scare-parable wonders. Its bark is worse than its bite. But you hear every point that bark is making loud and painfully clear. Read full review
75
Movie NationRoger MooreJan 29, 2018
What lifts this Irish film above the “Here they come, SHOOT’em!” trap are the moral dilemmas, the shaky ground underneath either side of those dilemmas and performances that can be downright wrenching in their humanity. Read full review
70
VarietyDennis HarveyFeb 22, 2018
Just when you thought nothing new could be done with the undead, “The Cured” pulls off a fresh take on zombie terrain. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerMar 8, 2018
It may owe much to viral shockers like "28 Days Later," but its political and personal insight elevates The Cured alongside the best of contemporary European realism. Read full review
60
EmpireKim NewmanMay 14, 2018
Suspenseful and thought-provoking, The Cured is a serious, engaged horror movie. More upsetting than scary, it ratchets up the tension unsettlingly. There’s life in zombies yet. Read full review
60
Time OutPhil de SemlyenMay 8, 2018
The Cure’ has to be the first to reanimate corpses as a means of examining Ireland’s post-Troubles tensions. It’s a bold idea – and a good one – even if it never fully pays off in a ploddingly predictable final act. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerFeb 22, 2018
Everyone is extremely serious, which can be a bit of a drag at times, but as a study in trauma The Cured has its moments and the film plays best when it remains intimate. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoMar 7, 2018
Credit Freyne for ambition — he’s trying to make a zombie movie with a certain amount of discretion, and evoke sympathy for at least some of those who’ve perpetrated unspeakable actions. But he’s juggling too many themes here, and manages to lose us somewhere along the way. Read full review
50
ObserverRex ReedMar 6, 2018
The latest in this ossified cornball genre is The Cured, which at least tries for a soupçon of freshness. Read full review
50
Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonFeb 28, 2018
The movie is swimming with ideas, but it values concept over character to a problematic degree. The Cured maps out an increasingly elaborate set of internal rules that govern its characters without defining or deepening them. Read full review
50
Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganFeb 22, 2018
The Cured is at its sharpest when drawing acute political parallels. As a zombie film, the shocks are few/ Read full review
50
Village VoiceCraig D. LindseyFeb 22, 2018
Even though The Cured doesn’t quite excel at being both terrifying and thought-provoking, at least it gave Juno the opportunity to become a horror hero. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternFeb 22, 2018
That's a pretty good notion, though nothing comes of it because the first-time filmmaker, David Freyne, has so many undigested ideas on his plate-guilt, innocence, bigotry, forgiveness, atonement and, if you please, a replaying of IRA strife. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleFeb 22, 2018
The confluence of rebellion, personal responsibility and genre violence never quite gels, perhaps because the realities of a zombie movie ultimately dictate where these things are headed. Read full review
50
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergFeb 22, 2018
Anyone digging through the cemetery soil again had better have fresh ideas. The Cured, the debut feature from David Freyne, has roughly two. Read full review
50
The PlaylistEli FineFeb 21, 2018
Freyne obviously intends all this as a grand allegory for refugee crises/immigration politics, but the logic applied to anti-immigration politics simply does not apply to anti-Cured politics. The allegory doesn’t track, and neither does the movie’s internal logic. Read full review
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