A heroic UN field operative played by Brad Pitt saves the planet from a global zombie pandemic? What part of that sentence doesn’t make you snort milk out ...

Paramount Pictures Rated PG-13 for intense, frightening zombie sequences, violence and disturbing images. Running time: 115 minutes. Three stars out of four....

Max Brooks' plague novel metastasized into a different creature in the movie version, which is still the summer's smartest, most urgent action film

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Brad Pitt delivers a capable performance in an immersive apocalyptic spectacle about a global zombie uprising.

Is 'World War Z' Too Smart For Its Own Good?

Brad Pitt's character in "World War Z," an ex-U.N. crisis specialist called back into action, faces the daunting task of stemming a global zombie pandemic.

Costing upwards of $200million, this is the most expensive zombie movie ever made – and you can see where the dosh went.

Good times to be a zombie in Hollywood.

“World War Z.”

Brad Pitt's famously troubled zombie apocalypse epic, based on the fan favorite novel by Max Brooks, is in theaters at last. NPR's Bob Mondello says it's a s...

Brad Pitt's famously troubled zombie apocalypse epic, based on the fan favorite novel by Max Brooks, is in theaters at last. NPR's Bob Mondello says it's a s...

“World War Z” began promisingly enough, with a sudden zombie outbreak in Philadelphia that had me hoping my dream might finally come true: At last, would...

The love-scare affair with zombies is exploited yet again in “World War Z,” with Brad Pitt as the hero trying to save the world as well as his family.

Zombie movies are so many light-years away from everything I care about that I faced World War Z with the kind of dread usually reserved for colonoscopies an...

After months of speculation, reshoots, and negative press, the Brad Pitt-versus-the-zombies thriller "World War Z" has arrived, and against all odds, it's pr...

World War Z contains some impressive set pieces - sequences that, taken on their own, are either tense or visually arresting. As a whole, however, it's a let...

"World War Z" plays as if somebody watched the similar "28 Days Later" and thought, "That was a good movie, but it would be even better if it cost $200 milli...

“World War Z” promised to be some sort of ultimate zombie movie experience, and it’s hard to call it that. But the first 25 minutes or so of this “Co...

Tension, not gore, fuels this zowie zombie apocalypse. The Walking Dead crowd may be bummed by the relative scarcity of rotting flesh and leaking pustules. B...

Brad Pitt's $200 million zombie epic is exciting cinema, but its sloppy, lazy script rips off many better films

After you’ve seen World War Z, come back and listen to our Spoiler Special: Brad Pitt outruns a big-ass pile of very fast zombies—and near-singlehanded ...

The PG-13 rating making horror buffs complain about World War Z before seeing it actually turns out to be its finest trait.

The film adaptation of Max Brooks' zombie oral history shows the strain of its notoriously troubled production in its tone and structure, ...

Though it sometimes plays it safe, World War Z is a perfectly decent thriller, the smartest and most sober action film of the summer so far

Brad Pitt's zombie thriller is entertaining but can't sidestep improbable moments.

For all its negative pre-release publicity, this is a surprisingly smart, gripping and imaginative addition to the zombie-movie canon.

In the end, it's just another damn zombie movie.