It's about time we had a fun, fast, and femme-led time loop movie for this millennium. The slasher is easy, breezy, and deadly as it wastes no time getting to its end game.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 30, 2024

Happy Death Day is a blast, a pure delight. It perfectly straddles the lines between comedy, horror, and romance, somehow juggling all of these genres to create a breezy romp of a movie. It’s a well-deserved addition to the time loop genre.

| Jul 25, 2023

The tongue-in-cheek approach by the filmmakers and their willingness to laugh at themselves makes this a better experience than the corny title would have you believe.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 21, 2022

The inspired hook fails to make the most of its chosen genre.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 17, 2022

If not for the tight direction and a few moments of good character choices, this would be a total snore.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 29, 2021

You won't want to re-live seeing this movie over and over again, but there are worse movies you could be stuck with in life.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 8, 2021

Morphs from time loop murder mystery to spiritual rebirth story to romance to revenge all in a tight 90 minutes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 1, 2021

A fresh, funny spin on the slasher sub-genre made even better by the force of nature that is Jessica Rothe. She walks away with the film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 29, 2020

I love the B-movie production design, subdued score, and overall energy of the film.

| Nov 10, 2020

If it simply presented itself as a comedy without any scenes played for actual scares, it could have sharpened both its college satire and genre parody.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 23, 2020

Its appeal lies in how it fully embraces the cheesiness

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 17, 2020

Good, not great, but some times good is enough.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 17, 2020

It's a concept that we've seen before, but with a twist, good direction and some excellent character development. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 3, 2020

Yes, Happy Death Day is just Groundhog Day meets...well...every college-set slasher movie you can name. The thing is, though, that is a simple, brush-off description to what turns out to be a surprisingly entertaining little horror film.

| Jun 30, 2020

Happy Death Day is an inventive, violently smart movie that will renew your love for slashers.

| Jun 24, 2020

A breezy, peppy, gore-lite affair that survives mostly on the strength of its own sense of humour.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 15, 2020

Happy Death Day is a slasher flick that oozes charm, humour and surprisingly little blood and gore. It's like Mean Girls meets Scream meets Groundhog Day.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 30, 2019

[Happy Death Day] has a very indolent and superficial perception of what it's like to be a young woman at college. [February 1, 2018]

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 22, 2019

Despite all the failures, the experience of surrendering to the empty and imperfect pleasures of 'Happy Death Day' is far from unsatisfactory. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 7, 2019

Derives a fair amount of mileage out of its canny premise.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 21, 2019