Scream VI

"We're all missing Sidney."

"An effortless balance of dark comedy and intense set pieces..."

"A fun and bloody new entry of a franchise whose resurrection seems to have been a pretty good idea after all."

"Scream VI is bloody fun, but only half as sharp as it thinks it is, and in desperate need of Neve Campbell."

"Cheerfully defies logic while hitting all the right notes..."

"It's like treading water in gore."

"If they keep making ’em like Scream VI, the future is as bright as it is bloody."

"A solid but familiar stab-filled outing..."

"It’s a homicidal shell game that‘s clever in all the right ways, staged and shot more forcefully than the previous film..."

"There’s a lot in Scream VI to satisfy longtime fans, but it still feels like a step down from the last one."

"Delivers exactly what the fans expect, which is more of the same."

"One of the franchise's best (and most brutal) sequels."

"Squanders the goodwill of last year's occasionally satisfying reboot, slackening into a dutiful merry-go-round of returning characters."

"Wholly satisfying and ridiculously fun."

"An intense, flawless entry that continues the streak of insightful introspection while escalating the thrills, kills, humor, and heart to a breathless degree."

"A generally-clapped-out franchise is capable of some fairly fun death throes."

"Well-made, fast-moving and often painfully brutal, while peppered with the kind of sassy, savvy dialogue that has always been a hallmark of the franchise."

"If further Screams can provide this much of a propulsive jolt then there’s more life in the franchise than we thought."

"What was once refreshing grows stale when it is repeated again and again."

"The franchise has clearly evolved and, on the basis of this instalment alone, it could run and run."

"It simply picks up the baton from the previous film, relying on a series of increasingly nasty, and at times exciting, kills to thrill audiences, while leaving everything in between to feel as fake as its vision of the Big Apple."