It won't do much for grown-ups, but a camp slumber-party classic is born.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 15, 2017

Fashioning itself as a teen horror, Wish Upon is far too tame for most actual adolescents ...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 30, 2017

Feels like the result of some kind of diabolical, chimpanzee-fingered pact.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 28, 2017

Wishing this film out of existence right now.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 28, 2017

Seldom has a teen protagonist been as annoying as the one in this high-concept high-school horror.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 28, 2017

Funny this may be, but for all the wrong reasons.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 27, 2017

This is forgettable stuff.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 15, 2017

I do like the last scene. It's quick, cutthroat and, considering the relative timidity of the horror throughout the majority of the picture, suitably shocking. It's the other 95-percent that isn't good.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 14, 2017

A spooky teen story that's not particularly heavy on the scares and over-delivers on the unintentional giggles,

| Jul 14, 2017

What would you wish for? World peace? Instagram fame? Or maybe for Hollywood to stop making horror films so needlessly violent, so deeply cynical, so aggressively targeted at teenage girls.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 14, 2017

A bland B-movie that begs the question: How did this get made when so many good films never escape development purgatory?

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 14, 2017

For cheap horror thrills, you can wish for better, but you can do much worse.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 14, 2017

The splatter is deployed cautiously and sometimes wittily, the story moving briskly from wishes granted to costs exacted ...

| Jul 14, 2017

The blunt momentum of the movie's plot starts to sag, with tin-eared dialogue making it obvious that the the story can't possibly offer up much more than variations on one ridiculous idea again and again.

| Original Score: D- | Jul 13, 2017

Never goes far enough to truly scare anyone. Even easy-to-please teens might wish for their time back.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 13, 2017

A deeply silly midsummer lark that makes up for the fact that it's about nothing by being incredibly entertaining.

| Jul 13, 2017

In this somewhat disappointing summer at the movies, Wish Upon offers a welcome glimmer of magic.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 13, 2017

Had director John R. Leonetti the slightest interest in the inner lives of teenage girls (i.e., at least half the film's characters), Wish Upon wouldn't so often mistake "light" for "silly."

| Jul 13, 2017

Beyond middle-schoolers, it's unclear who would enjoy this derivative, cliche-filled exercise in horror lite.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 13, 2017

The best thing you can say about it is that the acting is alright, there are a few decently executed moments of nastiness, the whole thing is in focus and you can understand what's being said.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 13, 2017