The triumvirate of young actors are charming but, inevitably, it's Mr Black who steals the show with his patented, hilarious bellowing. Will today's creepypasta kids still enjoy such silly fireside supernaturalism? We do hope so.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 23, 2016

Black is in good form as the enigmatic Stine, but it is Minnette as Zach who impresses most.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 12, 2016

For the most part, the story sticks to a predictable narrative.

| Feb 12, 2016

Goosebumps combines cynicism with sweetness. If you can get past the slow start, woefully blank hero Zach (Dylan Minnette), and hit-and-miss special effects, you'll be charmed.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 7, 2016

It's a little scrappy, but there's more than enough carnivalesque mayhem to keep monster fans young and old diverted.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 7, 2016

This teen horror fantasy (based on RL Stine's bestselling children's books) is made with an anarchic glee that, in its better moments, rekindles memories of Joe Dante's zany, tongue-in-cheek movies of the 1980s.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 4, 2016

Goosebumps is a surprisingly funny adaptation of the RL Stine children's monster-book series, with Jack Black playing the ghoulish writer and Dylan Minnette the boy next door.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 4, 2016

This modern riff on Monster Squad is a very pleasant surprise, and so '80s in spirit that it's a shock one of the villains isn't a giant Rubik's Cube.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 4, 2016

This adaptation of R.L. Stine's million-selling series of horror novels for younger readers comes within a hair's breadth of Lego Movie-level ingenious, and occasionally touches Gremlins-level sinister into the bargain.

| Feb 4, 2016

Goosebumps is nostalgia at its most infectious.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 3, 2016

More goofy fun than such a blatant cash-in ought to be.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 1, 2016

As the monsters are set free, and special effects mayhem starts to pile up, Goosebumps becomes an undifferentiated thrill ride, a slightly exhausting roll call that includes deadly garden gnomes, a teen werewolf, a giant mantis and a lot of slime.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 22, 2016

The film doesn't try hard to make the case that Hannah's as "real" as anyone else despite being from a book, though it easily could have. That's Goosebumps's implicit premise when it comes to the monsters, after all.

| Jan 21, 2016

What once kept the young'uns up at night will now have them yawning way before bedtime.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 22, 2015

It gently mocks the traditions of the genre -- giant preying mantis rips roof off high school -- while never getting too frightening.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 16, 2015

Jack Black fires up a stampede of comic terrors ready made for Halloween. Sure it's exhausting. But Goosebumps, knowing its audience, lets it rip.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 16, 2015

It's a cheerful, nasty delight.

| Oct 16, 2015

Goosebumps isn't detached or ironic, nor does it pretend to be something it's not. It's a bonus for fans who pored over the books and it celebrates the fun side of things going bump in the night.

| Original Score: B | Oct 16, 2015

The film goes too wide and gets a little soft at the end, but not fatally so. It's the rare horror film - well, sort of horror - that you and your children can enjoy together.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 15, 2015

Just the right blend of scary, funny, and heartwarming

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 15, 2015