We Bury the Dead review

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We Bury the Dead: a smart grief story in zombie skin

We Bury The Dead arrives with zombie-movie marketing, but what it delivers is far more intimate: a grief story set inside an apocalypse. In this spoiler-light episode, Popcorn Podcast unpacks writer and director Zak Hilditch's standout premise (the search for closure through body retrieval), the unsettling power of sound design and the performances from Daisy Ridley, Brenton Thwaites and Mark Coles Smith that keep it grounded – even when the third act begins to shuffle to the finish line.

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