No question: The Girl With All The Gifts is a terrific British film. Every aspect of the film is imbued with intelligence and thought, maintaining the ability to please, to surprise and to engage from start to finish. It is an intriguing mix of old-school John Wyndham-style British disaster with modern touchstones such as 28 Days Later in evidence, but this take on the popular zombie genre is sufficiently different to intrigue. Gemma Arterton, Glenn Close and Paddy Considine make for a powerhouse trio of very watchable leads, and young Sennia Nanua is quite stunning in the central eponymous girl role. This is a terrific transition from TV to big screen for director Colm McCarthy, and the sonically-exaggerated soundscape by Cristobal Tapia de Veer complements the story superbly (think of his wonderful TV work on Utopia and Humans but amplified). A couple of minor narrative wobbles in the second half aside, this is a truly impressive and extremely well-made film.
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