"Z for Zachariah" Manages to Make the Apocalypse Mundane: The Sundance Review

The very Sundance-y sci-fi drama "Z for Zachariah" manages to be as forgettable as it is tepid.

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Turns out being the last person on the planet is just as boring as you'd think it would be.

At least that's what Z for Zachariah, which just premiered at Sundance, manages to accomplish in its 95 minute run time. Based on the 1974 young adult novel by Robert C. O’Brien, the film succeeds in capturing the bleak, end-of-days tone of the source material, but pretty much everything else drags like a sweater soaked in molasses. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Margot Robbie, and Chris Pine are the only humans in this sparse sci-fi entry from director Craig Zobel that relies on such conservative sexual mores that the film might as well have been made in the 1950s. During a Sundance that boasts a lot of zesty sex,  Z for Zachariah manages to be as forgettable as it is tepid. Hard pass.

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