It delivers neither genuine scares nor genuine laughs.

| Feb 20, 2025

Craven remains the master of the slasher flick, using the Stab 3's set reproductions of the Woodsboro homes to revive creepy flashbacks of the first movie and providing the psychological fright that was the heart of Scream but was lacking in Scream 2.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 20, 2025

Still, it's a Scream that proclaims pop culture as the politics of the new century, and that's the kind of cutting remark worth remembering.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 20, 2025

Throughout the series, Craven changed the rules of slasher films to gleeful anarchy, in a trilogy that actually improved from start to finish.

| Original Score: B | Feb 20, 2025

A mainly by the numbers affair, enjoyable enough while it lasts, but instantly forgettable.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 20, 2025

Thanks to Wes Craven's firm directorial hand, there are plenty of in-jokes designed to scare and delight at the same time.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 20, 2025

Scream 3 -- which serves up its thrills with the same winking humor and nail-biting effectiveness of its predecessors -- is more than the final chapter of the trilogy, but a blaze-of-glory farewell to an era of fright-filled filmmaking.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 20, 2025

The thrill is visibly gone for the venerable Craven, who, jokes aside, put more feeling into "Music of the Heart."

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 20, 2025

At 116 minutes, this third installment lumbers along like a serial killer in shackles.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 20, 2025

What's especially fun to watch is Parker Posey's imitation of [Courtney] Cox Arquette.

| Feb 20, 2025

Nervy, clever and surprising.

| Feb 20, 2025

Though not quite as good as the others, it's funny, clever, scary, with lots of good lines.

| Feb 20, 2025

Scream 3 is certainly entertaining, but for all the talk that "all bets are off" in a trilogy's final part, it sticks surprisingly close to the rules the first two films delighted in breaking.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 20, 2025

By merging the Scream survivors with Hollywood actors impersonating them in a B-movie re-enactment, Scream 3 achieves double-edged idiocy,

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 20, 2025

Scream 3 feels very much like the stretch run towards the finish line.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 20, 2025

There is plenty of bloodletting, but it's in service of a solid story.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 20, 2025

So, while it's squirmy enough at parts, and thankfully less chockablock with bodies than 2, there's little in Scream 3 that we couldn't see coming, and predictability is the only truly fatal error in a horror movie.

| Feb 20, 2025

It's art imitating life imitating art. Tacky art.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 20, 2025

Scream 3 may be the slightest entry in the trilogy, but fans won't be complaining too loudly.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 19, 2025

Horror fans may enjoy it all fractionally less than Holywood haters.

| Feb 19, 2025