Scream 3 2000

Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more

Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News: Scream 3 is full of surprises . . . it's surprisingly long, surprisingly dull and surprisingly stupid. Read more

Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: Funny and brisk. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: A lame retread. Read more

Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: [Wraps] up the trilogy in satisfying fashion. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Genuinely scary and also highly amusing. Read more

Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader: Tthe movie belabors the idea that it's the last of a trilogy rather than the third in a series. Read more

Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: You're bound to scream -- perhaps real loud -- but it may be out of impatient dismay as much as Pavlovian reaction. Read more

Steven Rosen, Denver Post: Isn't that good. Read more

Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly: A limp movie-within-a-movie parody that closed the trilogy with a fizzle instead of the bang it deserved. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The only thing the movie kills with any decisiveness is your time. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: The result is the usual fragmentary mixture of jolts and jokes, knife-wielding maniacs and red herrings. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Unfortunately, there's nothing here that even the most inexperienced horror film fan would call innovative, and the predictable result is a movie that pales in comparison with its predecessors. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: If Scream was like a funny joke, Scream 2 was like somebody telling you, 'here's how I heard that joke,' and Scream 3 is like somebody who won't believe you've already heard it. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Holds up the honor of the franchise nicely. Read more

Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: Fulfills its modest ambitions by delivering a glib slasher spoof for the mall crowd. Read more

Time Out: Craven has produced a poor carbon copy of his own New Nightmare. Read more

Joe Leydon, Variety: Scream 3 is a crafty and well-crafted wrap-up that really does bring a satisfying sense of closure to the franchise. Read more

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Logic, motivation, suspense -- anything that might make the film frightening or resonant-is buried under Dolby blams, medulla-shaming dialogue, and a rain of overdubbed hunting-knife schwings that grate like a 3 a.m. car alarm. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: An unending string of bloopers, starring nubile, buxom and possibly anorexic stars. Read more