Scream 4 Reviews
ScreenRant
Returning horror fans should enjoy Scream 4. The series remains smartly unapologetic in toying with meta-references and horror-film expectations.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
TheShiznit.co.uk
Brutal? Funny? Clever? You get the feeling that maybe, just maybe, Randy would have approved after all.
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| Original Score: 4/5
TheMovieReport.com
As a commentary on the ongoing (d)evolution of horror cinema and infotainment culture since the last film, it's sharp, perceptive, and funny.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)
... Basically back to the same old, same old. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing in this age of endless "Saw" sequels.
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| Original Score: C+
The Standard
Scream 4 bucks the horror trend by retaining a level of quality rarely seen this many sequels in to a series.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Eye for Film
even more self-regardingly postmodern than the earlier films, although Williamson is smart enough to include a gripping whodunnit frame to prevent viewers from becoming totally lost in his hall of mirrors.
Cinema Sight
Made more for fans of the original than for new audiences, this installment has plenty of fun and horror goodness to please them while possibly picking up a handful of new converts.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Movies.com
The Scream movies are generally thought of as horror-comedies, but one of the things that makes them such fun is the fact that they're also mysteries.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Gazette (MD)
Like its predecessors, it's the horror movie for people who don't want to be on the edge of their seats throughout the whole film.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Flicks.co.nz
This fourth instalment will please the older fans of the series and should make some new ones amongst the audience who were too young to catch Scream on its first go round.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Georgia Straight
Compared to director Wes Craven's previous horror outing, last year's unforgivably awful My Soul to Take, Scream 4 is one of the greatest horror movies ever made.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
The 'meta' cleverness of what may be the talkiest slasher film ever made may annoy viewers who prefer their scares straight, but the movie works as both a well-cast horror-comedy and a multiple-suspects mystery thriller...
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| Original Score: 3/4
Birmingham Post
Scre4m will please those who want the same old movie dressed up in Primark clothes.
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| Original Score: 3/5
CampBlood.org
Bright, bloody and enjoyable, and completely worth seeing when you stand back and look at what the filmmakers have done to subvert a beloved but played-out genre.
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| Original Score: 7/10
Sky Movies
Scream 4 is thankfully a strong, if imperfect, return to form.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Boston Phoenix
This movie is going to have more than its fair share of detractors. I'm not one of them.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
This attempt to jump-start the long dormant franchise is entertaining and splattery enough, but there's a sense that Craven wanted it to be something more.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
indieWIRE
"Scream 4" lacks the qualities that would make it a masterpiece, but it testifies to the cyclical nature of commercial storytelling in sharp, nearly timeless fashion.
Ultra Culture
The unstoppable triumvirate of Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette keep the film grounded despite more BONKERS META CRAP that you ever imagined possible in 111mins
