A howling great time.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 6, 2025

It's nothing like as inventive as the first Nightmare on Elm Street, but it's much more thoughtful and provocative than most genre horror movies, and more fun.

| Feb 6, 2025

Good in the first half, begins to fade when new ideas are all used up and then finally staggers exhausted to the finish line.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 6, 2025

The fear will send you into your companion's arms, the laughs are cathartic, and Campbell and Courtney Cox kick almost as much butt as Sigourney Weaver in Alien Resurrection.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 6, 2025

This time around, the pacing is tight, the production values are slicker and the performances are more assured.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 6, 2025

A whodunit as much as it is a thriller, generating its effects by strategically withholding information rather than pumping fountains of gore.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 6, 2025

Another supremely self-referential but satisfyingly droll thriller.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 6, 2025

The less ticklish bad joke of Scream 2 is that self-referentiality has its limits.

| Feb 6, 2025

All that Scream 2 can do is load yet more icing on to a cake already collapsing under the weight of its own over-abundant decoration.

| Feb 5, 2025

Switch off your mind, relax, and let Wes Craven twiddle your buttons with the sequel to the self-ironising slasher movie that even the theorists of Cahiers du Cinéma couldn't resist.

| Feb 5, 2025

It's the rare sequel that deserves to outdo its predecessor, extending the story rather than rehashing it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 5, 2025

Like all good movies, it makes its own rules, and seduces us into accepting them.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 5, 2025

[Craven's] pomposity makes the movie boring in between all the chill-and-gag moments.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 5, 2025

While the movie stands on its own, it's a giddier experience if you're familiar with the original.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 23, 2024

Its self-awareness has a brashness that can be enlivening.

| Original Score: B | May 20, 2011

The rest of the cast of disposable archetypes deadpanned about why ''sequels suck'' -- a particularly funny joke, since this one didn't.

| Original Score: B | Mar 24, 2011

Visceral, witty and appropriately redundant...

| Jul 28, 2008

Clever parody of the sequel trend; once again we are treated to a movie mocking its own conventions. Some great comic -- and terrifying -- moments, but suffers for not being as original as the original.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 23, 2007

If you liked Scream there's no reason you shouldn't like this sequel.

| Sep 23, 2007

The film itself is stuck in a cycle of repetition, with slight variations.

| Jun 24, 2006