A Nightmare on Elm Street is just as tedious as the other horror remakes by Platinum Dunes, avoiding any semblance of creative thought or innovative interpretation.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 18, 2023

Re-imagining a character whose appeal is largely inextricable from his initial era is a suicide mission. Stay too pure to the original & what’s the point? Complications stray from its strengths. It's basically a question of who would fall on the grenade.

| Original Score: .5/5 | Nov 1, 2022

A commendable attempt by Haley to step into near-unfillable shoes is completely let down by a generic copy & paste script and an overuse of unforgivable CGI. Rooney Mara acts like she'd rather be anywhere else and most audience members will feel the same.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 20, 2022

This resurrected Nightmare is passable entertainment, although anemic. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 13, 2022

Freddy is back slicing and dicing in your sleep - but this is one remake you'll want to sleep through.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 19, 2021

The film's biggest sin is that it's just so forgettable, but it's far from the worst of the 2000s-era horror remakes. Still, that's faint praise for a less than mediocre film.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2020

Obviously, a pre-sold audience exists, but this film follows the original too closely and with zero improvements on the plot.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 30, 2020

Lacks the overall sense of fear of the original and goes for a darker tone that detracts away from effective chills of Freddy's character.

| Oct 25, 2020

It's more like a bad dream in Hollywood.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 18, 2020

There's just no fun to be had in this. The kills aren't good. The gore's not good. It's not scary.

| May 1, 2020

Dramatically inert and devoid of fresh ideas.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 7, 2019

I think it's a film that succeeds within its own boundaries. For that it deserves faint praise. It's definitely the best of the recent horror remakes.

| Original Score: B- | May 10, 2019

Dear makers of this thing: You guys are doing it wrong. So much so that I want to get you in a room and say, "I don't believe in you! You're not real!" until you disappear.

| Mar 9, 2019

You had a perfect opportunity to reboot a classic and this is what you guys came up with? It's pretty lifeless.

| Aug 28, 2018

Freddy Krueger's reinvention is a humor-free remake that flags until the satisfying final scenes.

| Aug 6, 2018

It's cliched, boring, and anticlimactic.

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 11, 2017

So generic, so lazy, and so forgettable they may as well have "we're not even trying" plastered across the bottom of the screen.

| Aug 26, 2015

It replaces the fascinating context of Freddie Krueger's existence with a seemingly endless exercise in violence and unrelenting pain.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 5, 2014

The real nightmare is the tragic lack of creativity in this new look of one of the genre's greatest characters.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Mar 8, 2014

I still like the characters from the first film, and these kids were cardboard shadows of them.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 18, 2014