This weekend nostalgia met the future, as zombies walked the earth yet again in Romero's latest brain-eater, Diary of the Dead. Reaction from witnesses has been thoroughly mixed: a new classic in its own right, or merely an aging auteur's struggle to stay relevant? The fact that anyone's thinking this hard about a zombie movie is a good sign.

"When there is no more room in hell, the dead will create a MySpace page." --Nathan Lee, The Village Voice

"Sequences abound in which laughs freeze the blood... Romero is asking us: Do we stop at the scene of an accident to help or to look?" --Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

"In most horror movies, it's a given that we should root for the heroes to make it out alive, but Diary of the Dead isn't nearly so certain, and so it terrifies us all the more." --Scott Foundas, LA Weekly

"Moderately scary, moderately amusing, intermittently dull and obvious, Diary of the Dead is not groundbreaking, nor even ground-quaking." --Steven Rea, Philly.com

"Diary of the Dead is at its best when Romero is just goofing off, like when he shows us home video footage of a children's birthday party in which no one realizes there's something not quite right about the clown entertaining the kids -- until his nose falls off and he decides it's time for a snack." --Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald

"Diary acknowledges its own B-ness -- it's schlock Brecht, with thin characters and italicized dialogue - but Romero has still delivered a merry, blood-soaked kick in the Facebook." --Ty Burr, The Boston Globe