Blair Witch is probably fascinating for young viewers who had never seen the original movie and didn't live through that hype, but for those familiar, it offers nothing new.

| Feb 27, 2017

The multiple camera angles ensure that just as dread surges -- the waiting was always the hardest part in The Blair Witch Project -- we cut away to something less nerve-wrecking.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 28, 2016

The microphones on the tiny digital cameras shouldn't be picking up much, but verisimilitude be damned, because Blair Witch renders every snapped stick, crushed leaf, and distant guttural noise as an ear-blistering assault.

| Dec 5, 2016

If you're scared of twigs this movie will have you urinating in the aisles.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 22, 2016

Blair Witch follows the original's beats so precisely that at times it seems the film is more eager to elicit memories of its predecessor than to stand on its own at all.

| Sep 19, 2016

It's less a sequel or a "reboot" than a remake, but without the freshness of the stylistic and marketing hooks that made the first one so memorable.

| Sep 18, 2016

Efficient if unadventurous.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2016

"Blair Witch" is a pale imitation, lacking wit, tension or anything resembling scares.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 17, 2016

Barrett and Wingard slavishly reprise the beats of the original movie and suffer gravely by comparison.

| Sep 17, 2016

The reliance here is on jump scares rather than psychological horror and the result is less than spellbinding.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 16, 2016

Emerges as satisfying in its own right and pretty damn scary.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 16, 2016

A movie that contributes nothing new to either the Blair Witch mythos or the vast landscape of found-footage horror.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 16, 2016

Despite being equipped with hi-tech GoPro-style cameras and GPS, as well as a drone, the investigators lose their grip almost immediately, but it's an hour before any frights ensue, and those are mostly jump-scares.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 16, 2016

Belated "official" sequel to 1999 hit updates technology but repeats the original's shocks - only much louder and lamer

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 16, 2016

Blair Witch nods to the first film but never rediscovers its power.

| Original Score: C | Sep 16, 2016

A thrill ride that's as terrifying as it is no-nonsense.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 16, 2016

Wingard was in high school when "The Blair Witch Project" came out, so he's checking something off his personal list here. Everyone else moved on from "Blair Witch," with good reason, a long time ago.

| Original Score: C | Sep 16, 2016

Running and screaming may be essential to a lot of horror movies, but as "Blair Witch" shows, they're not scary in themselves. For that, you need the stuff between the running and screaming.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 15, 2016

The acting and filmmaking are too crude to make you care about what happens ... even though you know pretty much exactly what that will be.

| Sep 15, 2016

Tedious in its early going and all but unwatchable in its final half-hour, the movie feels interminable at a barely-feature-length 89 minutes.

| Sep 15, 2016