Storyline
In the future, a strange fungus has changed nearly everyone into a thoughtless, flesh-eating monster. When a scientist and a teacher find a girl who seems to be immune to the fungus, they all begin a journey to save humanity.
Directors
Cast
Gemma Arterton, Paddy Considine, Anthony Welsh, Glenn Close, Anamaria Marinca, Dominique Tipper, Ross Green, Laura Marie Howard, Daniel Eghan, Sennia Nanua, Fisayo Akinade, Joe Lomas, Eli Lane, Joel Sheldon, Will Brooks, Tessa Morris, Abigail Sams, Shay Gutteridge, Elizabeth-Anne Fuller, Callum Lloyd, Alicia Morris, Matthew Smallwood, Macey Ward, Amy Newey, Elise Reed, Joshua Smallwood, Lobna Futers, Stacey Lynn Crowe, Amy Floyd, Pete Buzzsaw Holland, A.k. Steppa, Alex Reed, Richard Price, Alexandria Wright, Ita O'Brien, Ria Lopez, Sean Evans, Daniel Jack Evans, Samantha Rushton, Pamela DeAbreu, Rayn Khan, Matt Adcock, Jim Macie
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Reviews
100
The movie is a coming-of-age story, but whose age is coming? That's the profound question we're left with, in a stellar adaptation that balances gore with black humor, ethical quandary, hope and—yes—plenty of brains.
100
The best zombie-ish apocalypse in years. Sennia Nanua is a major discovery, but it’s the dense social commentary and moral dilemmas that will haunt you.
90
The Girl With All the Gifts is full of surprises. It keeps shifting before our eyes, from atmospheric horror to intense survival thriller to thoughtful contemplation of humanity’s place in our planet’s food chain.
80
What really separates The Girl With All the Gifts from the genre pack, however, is its moral intelligence, clever thematic consistency (drawing on the Greek myth of Pandora’s box) and emotional heft, the latter component rooted in the truly captivating breakout performance of young Nanua.
80
The film ends exactly one scene too late, lessening the brutal statement its ending might have made. But these really aren’t deal-breakers in a crisp bullseye of a debut feature which has guts and brains to spare.
