The cast is talented but never given much to work with.

In comedy-horror meister Joe Dante's latest, Anton Yelchin has to deal with his zombified ex-girlfriend, played by Ashley Greene

Venice Review: Joe Dante's 'Burying the Ex' is a Loving Homage to B-Movies

The puckish glee with which monster-mad director Joe Dante once fused horror and comedy in the "Gremlins" movies and "Piranha" is thoroughly missing in the b...

You root for filmmakers like Joe Dante, a director whose profile has dimmed in recent years but who brought wit and imagination to his films back in the 1980...

You have to feel a little sorry for this comedy, arriving a year after the far superior “Life After Beth.” Both riff on the undead as metaphor for expire...

A looming breakup doesn’t go as planned in the first feature in six years from the director of the “Gremlins” movies and “The ’Burbs.”

A looming breakup doesn’t go as planned in the first feature in six years from the director of the “Gremlins” movies and “The ’Burbs.”

Burying the Ex is another tiresome entry in a long line of dog-eared zombie comedies.

Even masters have their off days, however, and Joe Dante’s new picture, Burying The Ex, seems to have been made over the course of quite a few of them.

The idea of a Joe Dante zombie romance sounds like cinephile heaven, but this horror-comedy about a bad girlfriend who hectors a dude from ...

“He took what could have been B-movie exploitation and made it into arthouse cinema,” gush two Val Lewton enthusiasts at one point in Joe Dante's comedy-...

It’s a lot of fun, and Joe Dante’s heart is palpably in it.