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  "description": "It's incredibly rare for a truly compelling movie like We Bury the Dead to emerge from such a well-trodden genre. It's not the apocalypse, but in Tasmania, it feels like it is. We've seen this though, we've seen visions of the apocalypse, movies and shows covered in zombies and wanton violence. But it's so rare that we get something novel, something that isn't emerging from a respected franchise, but we do here. It's all eminently believable too. The United States accidentally deploys a new weapon near a populated but remote area. The rank incompetence necessary for that to occur is everywhere in the world we currently inhabit. Like so many movies that are a part of a genre but stand out with in it, We Bury the Dead is not strictly a zombie movie. It's a rumination on grief, loss and closure. It's about Ava's journey to say what was left unsaid when Mitch off took on a work trip in Tasmania after a personal spat. She wants to find him, she needs to find him, she does find him. But she never gets the closure she's looking for. She only gets the closure the world offers her and it is both cruel and inadequate. That last scene with Clay vomiting on Mitch's body shrouded in cloth on the way to a burial at sea? Fucking perfect. Exactly the right touch to throw some absurd humor into a harrowing film.",
  "path": "/watching/movies/we-bury-the-dead-2026",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-04T15:00:00Z",
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  "tags": [
    "thriller",
    "horror",
    "drama"
  ],
  "title": "We Bury the Dead"
}