Film Review: Life After Beth — consequenceofsound.net

Life After Beth is a missed opportunity. For months, it’s been marketed as the first of its kind — a “zom-com,” if you will — existing in this guise that assumes fans of the zombie genre would ever forget last year’s Warm Bodies or 1993’s highly underrated My Boyfriend’s Back. But director Jeff Baena got a pass, if only for its enviable ensemble cast that includes Dane DeHaan, Aubrey Plaza, Molly Shannon, Cheryl Hines, Paul Reiser, Matthew Gray Gubler, and the ever resilient John C. Reilly. Unfortunately, the end result is exactly as one might expect: A total misstep that’s not only too late, but far too unfocused.

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