it's easy to get swept up in the ride, if not the scares... Even if viewers never entirely lose themselves into these stories, they can at least feel like they're fully in on the joke.

| Oct 8, 2020

"Scare Me" packs ambitious ideas inside a small-scale concept.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 5, 2020

Simply put, Scare Me is superb.

| Oct 3, 2020

Just as often, it makes the movie itself feel like a single anthology episode overstaying its welcome.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 3, 2020

While there are lapses, an overindulgence here and there, Ruben mostly keeps his canny debut feature afloat and us entertained, if not exactly scared ...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 1, 2020

Coming from the mouths and minds of Cash and Ruben, it's a full-blown acting showcase.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 1, 2020

The best thing about "Scare Me" is that, for all of its entertaining qualities and acute cuts at white male fragility, this is one excellent guide to writing and filming good horror.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 29, 2020

Ruben has forged himself an actors' showcase. He and Cash are marvelous mimics.

| Original Score: B | Feb 10, 2020

The film's dramatic high point... is the arrival of pizza.

| Jan 31, 2020

As a battle of wits between two endlessly entertaining characters, over the nature of horror movies and scary stories no less, Scare Me feels like a spooky, cozy warm blanket worth cuddling up to by the fire.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 28, 2020

Scare Me deconstructs the horror comedy to mostly successful results.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 25, 2020