Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Oh the Horror! “28 Years Later” from Oscar Winner Danny Boyle Looks Like a Hit with 95% Rotten Tomatoes Reviews

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And then there are movies people want to see.

Danny Boyle and Alex Garland have reunited for “28 Years Later” and critics are eating it up.

Opening tomorrow night, “28 Years Later” — the sequel to “28 Days Later” — looks like it will be big.

On Rotten Tomatoes the critics score is a stunning 95%.

The AP says: “an unusually soulful coming-of-age movie considering the number of spinal cords that get ripped right out of bodies.”

Time Out: “Boyle reinvents the zombie movie as a bloody pop-art installation.”

Not everyone is in agreement. There are three or four ”rotten” reviews, and some “fresh” that are mixed. But for the most part, “28 Years Later” should be a hit this weekend.

Boyle is the beloved, award winning director “Slumdog Millionaire,” as well as “127 Hours,” “Yesterday,” “Trainspotting,”

Jodie Comer, potential new James Bond Aaron Taylor Johnson, Ralph Fiennes, and Jack O’Connell star in this one.

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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