Halloween Ends is a Halloween movie that doesn’t seem to want to be a Halloween movie, and suffers all the more for it.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 6, 2025

Awful.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 9, 2024

While Halloween Ends does provide something close to the catharsis that long-time fans of the franchise may be seeking, it does it in a manner that still feels a tiny bit lacking.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2024

It is the horror equivalent of a 70s sitcom relying on misunderstandings to move the plot back to Laurie and Mike instead of sticking to the film that they wanted to make: Corey, the Son of Michael Myers.

| Jun 8, 2024

Some of it is gory; the opening is good. None of it is scary. Worse, none of it has any tension whatsoever.

| Jan 3, 2024

It aims more for a psychological angle within a slasher, rather than another hack and slash, and I appreciate it for that.

| Oct 31, 2023

It is fun to see Curtis do her feisty grandmother act flinging refrigerators about with vim and vigour, but otherwise this end to the trilogy is quite dreadful.

| Oct 4, 2023

Myers is the walking embodiment of evil. If the repeated message in Halloween Kills wasn’t enough to get that across, then the script of Halloween Ends hammers it home.

| Sep 17, 2023

It may disappoint some viewers, but it is making something more interesting from what was already a tired franchise. I know which kind of sequel I prefer to see.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 31, 2023

It's a thriller baked in history and nostalgia, standing on its own two feet.

| Jul 25, 2023

disappointed by this brand new trilogy… The opening scene sets up some great ideas but within 40 minutes loses a lot of its lusters with its lack of tension… semi cool kills, great performances, but an unearned idea left me frustrated with choices

| Jul 25, 2023

Halloween Ends will scratch the slasher itch for some. If you want gruesome kills, Halloween Ends has that. If you were hoping for a more meaningful end to a 40+ year franchise, you should probably look elsewhere.

| Jul 24, 2023

Ignoring the bigger picture, Halloween Ends is ultimately a horror movie, and it works as one. Though it doesn't have quite as many kills as last year's Halloween Kills, it's gory and gruesome.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 24, 2023

Halloween Ends is one of the best movies of the year and one of the best horror movies of the year.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 20, 2023

Perhaps the fatigue of the series is finally rearing its ugly head at the (alleged) finish line?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 16, 2023

Halloween Ends is a greatly dissatisfying close to a chapter that hopefully lives up to its name, and this sluggish culmination does exactly what the title declares: ends Halloween.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 23, 2023

Bad guy kills people; bad guy is killed. How can you mess it up? Halloween Ends is about finding complicated ways to fail at this simple, elegant, beloved formula.

| Feb 21, 2023

David Gordon Green's finale lacked cohesion and direction, framing it as a trilogy letdown instead of placing a nice, bloody stamp mark on it.

| Original Score: C- | Feb 9, 2023

Forget the discourse. David Gordon Green's Halloween Ends is so good that it doesn't just deliver a great finale; it even makes prior films better.

| Jan 9, 2023

HALLOWEEN ENDS is a successful end to the David Gordon Green Halloween trilogy that puts the focus squarely where it belongs – on Laurie Strode and her surviving family.

| Dec 28, 2022