How's that for a slice of fried gold?

Rating: 10/10 (30 April 2018)

'Shaun Of The Dead (2004)' is so beautifully layered and brilliantly constructed that it's easily one of the most rewatchable films of all time. Each new viewing yields new rewards, in the form of clever nuggets of world-building and jokes so subtle they had gone unnoticed before. It's also easily one of the funniest flicks I've ever seen, along with its two ice-cream flavoured spiritual sequels, while also being one of the smartest and most cinematic, to boot. The energetic editing is so distinct and confident that it can almost tell the story on its own, and the masterful screenplay pulls all the right strings in all the right places to play its audience like a fiddle. It will have them rolling on the floor one moment before wiping away a genuine tear the next. The piece does all of this while perfectly parodying a played-out genre and feeling effortlessly fresh at the same time. It's an entirely unique piece of filmmaking that owes a debt to many films of the past but repays it in full just by being so utterly great. 10/10