Scream 3 (2000)

All Critics (111) | Top Critics (26) | Fresh (41) | Rotten (75) | DVD (24)

Tthe movie belabors the idea that it's the last of a trilogy rather than the third in a series.

September 7, 2011 Full Review | Comment

Lisa Alspector

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

A limp movie-within-a-movie parody that closed the trilogy with a fizzle instead of the bang it deserved.

March 24, 2011 Full Review | Comment

Chris Nashawaty

Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

Scream 3 is a crafty and well-crafted wrap-up that really does bring a satisfying sense of closure to the franchise.

March 26, 2009 Full Review | Comment

Joe Leydon

Variety

Top Critic

Fulfills its modest ambitions by delivering a glib slasher spoof for the mall crowd.

June 18, 2002 Full Review | Comment

Edward Guthmann

San Francisco Chronicle

Top Critic

The result is the usual fragmentary mixture of jolts and jokes, knife-wielding maniacs and red herrings.

March 22, 2002 Full Review | Comment

Liam Lacey

Globe and Mail

Top Critic

Breathlessly inventive and hip.

January 1, 2000 Full Review | Comment

Joe Baltake

Sacramento Bee

Top Critic

Scream 3 is a fine ending to the trilogy. The teen horror franchise that ate itself.

September 7, 2011 Full Review | Comments (2)

Film4

Merely adheres to the very convoluted whodunit formula that it outwardly addresses via a from-the-grave video recording by Jamie Kennedy's genre know-it-all.

May 20, 2011 Full Review | Comment

Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

The self-referential setup is in place, but not the ingenuity or wit to take advantage of it.

April 13, 2011 Full Review | Comment

Josh Larsen

LarsenOnFilm

...a rather anticlimactic finish to a series that started out with such promise...

April 4, 2011 Full Review | Comment

David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

An embarrassing carbon copy of its previous films...

March 19, 2011 Full Review | Comment

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

End (hopefully) to the hit slasher saga.

December 15, 2010 Full Review | Comment

Charles Cassady

Common Sense Media

Missing from the third installment are many of original scribe Kevin Williamson's self-referential genre jokes and a lot of his energetic bravura.

September 8, 2009 Full Review | Comment

Chuck Walton

Hollywood.com

A bad slasher movie, made by a talented man who brought hardly a one of his talents to bear.

August 10, 2009 Full Review | Comments (3)

Tim Brayton

Antagony & Ecstasy

A truly tired sequel.

August 7, 2008 Full Review | Comment

Bob Grimm

Sacramento News & Review

The other Scream films were also tricky and convoluted, but I don't remember them playing like the WB version of Murder, She Wrote, as Scream 3 too often does.

August 18, 2007 Full Review | Comment

Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

There is nothing particularly clever to make all the bloodshed -- and time spent in the theater -- worth it.

July 14, 2007 Full Review | Comment

Joe Lozito

Big Picture Big Sound

Craven has produced a poor carbon copy of his own New Nightmare.

February 9, 2006 Full Review | Comment

Time Out

I hope to forget about this one's existence quickly. It pains me to think of a superb franchise hitting relative rock bottom.

May 22, 2003 Full Review | Comment

Eugene Novikov

Film Blather

Wes Craven should have quit when he was ahead.

February 8, 2003 Full Review | Comment

John R. McEwen

Film Quips Online

• 1. Gale Weathers: Roman's dead.
  2. Angelina Tyler: What?
  3. Gale Weathers: Let's get out of here come on..
  4. Angelina Tyler: No I'm getting out of here!
  5. Dewey Riley: Angelina your not safe alone! listen to me!
  – Submitted by Rawballs B (37 days ago)
• 1. Sidney Prescott: Hello?
  2. The Voice: [imitating Sidney] Hello?
  3. Sidney Prescott: Who is this?
  4. The Voice: Who is this?
  5. Sidney Prescott: Um, who's calling?
  6. The Voice: Um, who's calling?
  7. Sidney Prescott: Dewey, Gale, whoever, call me back I can only hear myself.
  8. The Voice: I ONLY HEAR YOU TOO, SIDNEY!?
  – Submitted by Amneer P (2 months ago)
• 1. Sarah Darling: Roman its not the line.
  2. Roman Bridger: but its on my script.
  3. Sarah Darling: Has there been another goddamn re-write? How the fuck are we supposed to learn our lines when there's a new script every 15 minutes?
  4. Roman Bridger: It's not just a new script, it's a new movie.
  5. Sarah Darling: What movie?
  6. Roman Bridger: My movie. And it's called: 'Sarah gets skewered like a fucking pig'! [pause] Still in character, Sarah?
  – Submitted by Rawballs B (4 months ago)
• 1. Gale Weathers: Dewey, here... [handed the gun] he got Roman and Angelina too.
  2. Jennifer Jolie: Where gonna be safe if we stick together won't we?
  3. Dewey Riley: Of course why? [suddenly killer punched him in the face and the ladies scream and then took a run]
  – Submitted by Rawballs B (5 months ago)
• 1. Jennifer Jolie: Jeez.
  2. Gale Weathers: What the hell are you doing?
  3. Jennifer Jolie: Being Gale Weathers. What the hell are you doing?!
  4. Gale Weathers: I am Gale Weathers!
  – Submitted by Rawballs B (6 months ago)