A slam-dunk premise is left dangling by a limited cast and general sluggishness from the usually excitable helmer, who never gets the feature up to speed as a chiller or thriller.

| Original Score: C | Jan 30, 2025

In nearly every aspect, The Faculty acts as collage. Admittedly, there are virtually no new ideas here, but rather homages to forebears, direct references to contemporary influences and modernization of classic sci-fi tropes.

| Jan 11, 2024

The Faculty is an engaging story that breezes by with an energetic fervor that doesn’t slack on bringing the horror when it needs to.

| Nov 14, 2023

... a fun loving, self-aware cleverness to both the science-fiction/horror conventions and the teen movie clichés.

| Oct 27, 2023

Great energy, great story, great tone, “The Faculty” is a truly great movie.

| Original Score: FIVE STARS | Oct 15, 2023

While it features an undeniably talented ensembles of young stars, they still only manage to elevate the storyline slightly, with the cast and crew largely going on to be involved in more satisfying experiences.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 20, 2023

The Faculty adds a wrinkle to its parasitic creature that sets it apart from most alien assimilation stories, one that is closely tied with the film’s setting and teenage viewpoint.

| Jun 7, 2023

Essentially, the movie is a grand pastiche, folding the high school social dynamics of The Breakfast Club and the paranoid undercurrents of Invasion of the Body Snatchers and John Carpenter's The Thing into a high-gloss puff pastry.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 5, 2022

Frankly, it's hard to buy into the horror of a potential alien apocalypse when you're half expecting Shaggy and the gang to pull up in the Mystery Machine and reveal the true identity of the outer-space baddie.

| Oct 5, 2022

The Faculty may not be the cinematic horror masterpiece you are looking for, but it is definitely one of the more entertaining horror films around.

| Apr 30, 2022

A stylish sci-fi, horror, thrilling movie with a great cast that still holds up.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 3, 2021

Another playful meta entry from Kevin Williamson. Anchored by an all-star cast and featuring endlessly quotable dialogue, The Faculty is essential queer horror...until it disappointingly betrays its coded characters in the finale.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 21, 2021

A fun meta riff on Invasion of the Body Snatchers (among other things) let down by a sloppy and unsatisfying coda.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 17, 2021

The story isn't clever enough to come off as a respectful nod to sci-fi staples - just recycled tropes inserted into a contemporary teen setting.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Sep 11, 2020

Kitschy '90s sci-fi horror, lots of cursing, some gore.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 16, 2017

The Faculty succeeds as a youth-oriented shocker due to director, editor, and frequent camera-operator Robert Rodriguez's provocative eye and frantic pacing.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 2, 2014

Surely isn't perfect, but it's a solid genre offering from Robert Rodriguez.

| Oct 27, 2012

A zesty, charming sci-fi horror-thriller with better performances and far better production values than you'd expect.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 5, 2012

Some of this is fun in a low-grade Hellraiser sort of way, but it reduces the script’s mildest ambitions to hamburger. In The Faculty, it’s Kevin Williamson’s talent that turns into a pod of itself.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 7, 2011

The Kevin Williamson formula (rewrite familiar horror scenarios and have the characters note the familiarity) has gotten to be a bore, and in this case it makes no sense.

| Apr 17, 2009