Until Dawn wants to carve its own path, separate from its source material. Ironically, in trying to be different, it ends up feeling more clichéd than ever.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 6, 2025

The film is far from original, but it successfully translates game logic to the big screen.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 26, 2025

The film promises that every night will contain a new horror, but the lack of variety means they all feel as punishingly repetitive for the viewer as they are for the characters.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 25, 2025

This one will likely only appeal to fans of the genre who appreciate reverence and twists on this kind of material, but it’s bloody — if lightweight — fun for those who enjoy this kind of good old-fashioned romp in the woods.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 25, 2025

"Until Dawn" doesn't do enough to carve out its own path, but it does a good job riffing on a host of situations and scenarios you've seen before.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 25, 2025

They actually came up with a really clever idea … and then did almost nothing with it.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 25, 2025

This version of Until Dawn is essentially nothing more than a series of unconnected horror scenes in which characters we don't care about die again and again. Nothing more, nothing less.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 25, 2025

This should be a recipe for success, if a minor one, but Until Dawn doesn’t really capitalize on these elements and, as a result, is erratically frightening and vaguely dissatisfying.

| Apr 24, 2025

If you’re just looking for reasons to jump out of your seat, there are worse ways to spend your time. And a lot of better ways too.

| Apr 24, 2025

On its own, lower-stakes terms, Until Dawn is a passable, if rather unfrightening frightener, made with some skill and enlivened by a strong troupe of young actors.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 24, 2025

Watching someone play a video game that they never let you play is a singular kind of boring. A similar “why am I here?” dullness arrives early and stays late in Until Dawn.

| Apr 24, 2025

Until Dawn makes countless gestures at being an incisive horror comedy -- some good, some bad -- but works better approached as a full-blown spoof. If that was the intent here, a better name might have been something like “Video Game: The Horror Movie.”

| Original Score: B- | Apr 24, 2025

A misbegotten time loop tale where the story shifts at will to cram in as many clichés as possible.

| Original Score: D+ | Apr 24, 2025

Lacks any sense of internal logic and is even lighter on surprising scares, dispensing only clichés that are as moldy as the haunted house in which his characters are confined.

| Apr 24, 2025