12 Modern Movie Gems Under 90 Minutes

10. Zombieland

Runtime: 88 minutes "Woody Harrelson drives around bashing in zombie brains while on a quest to find Twinkies." Why that sentence wasn't used as a tagline to promote the hell out of this movie I'll never know. Chalk it up to a lost opportunity, I guess. Of course there's more to Zombieland than that, but at its heart, this movie is all about having fun. And to that end, Zombieland is an entrails-laden, smart-mouthed, post-apocalyptic action comedy with a big dose of video game violence thrown in for good measure. And there's a lengthy cameo by a faux-zombie Bill Murray. It's all presented so casually that it practically begs you to make a big deal of it on its behalf, because it's too cool to show how much it cares. Which I'm all too happy to do.
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