The Girl With All the Gifts is brilliant and uncompromising.
Elevated by a smart script drawing from a clever book, and fantastically tense direction from Colm McCarthy, The Girl With All the Gifts is at once a brilliant example of the classic zombie movie tropes and a sly subversion of them. The Girl With All the Gifts was originally published in 2014, but it feels strangely of this cultural moment. It is very much a young adult science-fiction commentary on the world as it exists today, perfectly capturing the anxiety simmering beneath Brexit and Trumpism.
![Gifted.](https://them0vieblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/thegirlwithallthegifts5.jpg?w=468&h=231)
Gifted.
The Girl With All the Gifts in an exception piece of work, Carey’s script understanding the myriad of genre conventions that it is navigating while McCarthy pushes the material just a little bit further. It is unsettling and palpable in the ways that a post-apocalyptic zombie film needs to be, but it also goes that bit further. The strongest aspect of The Girl With All the Gifts is a willingness to follow its strands through to their logical conclusion, as unrelenting and confrontational as they might be.
The Girl With All the Gifts reimagines the zombie movie for a new generation.
![Putting her neck on the line.](https://them0vieblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/thegirlwithallthegifts4.jpg?w=468&h=209)
Putting her neck on the line.
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