Five Nights at Freddy's
Universal Pictures | Release Date: October 27, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
33
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 38 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
20
Negative:
15
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
The Seattle TimesSoren AndersenOct 28, 2023
The game, propelled by twitchy point-of-view camera work and abundant jump scares, is fast-paced. The movie is anything but. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineJustin ClarkOct 26, 2023
Five Nights at Freddy’s has absolutely no idea what kind of ride it wants to be. Read full review
38
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiOct 26, 2023
When 'The Banana Splits Movie' got there first, and did it slightly better, you’re in trouble. Read full review
35
PolygonJesse HassengerOct 27, 2023
A movie that feels like it’s been machine-learned and reverse-engineered from YouTube fanfic, rather than rooted in any kind of recognizable human experience, behavior, or psychology. Read full review
30
VarietyMurtada ElfadlOct 26, 2023
Faced with a flat script and uninspired direction, the actors can’t save Five Nights at Freddy’s. Read full review
25
ObserverDylan RothOct 26, 2023
Five Nights at Freddy’s takes a novel, off-the-wall premise and makes it feel rote. Even as someone who has no experience with the games, I felt as if I was on my third or fourth playthrough already. Read full review
25
IndieWireWilson ChapmanOct 26, 2023
A film about a haunted Chuck E. Cheese clone doesn’t exactly need to be complex to be watchable. But Five Nights at Freddy’s somehow misses the arcade for the flashback forest, undercutting the obvious appeal of animatronic cartoon characters as menacing slasher villains by refusing to ever become a real horror movie. Read full review
25
The Film VerdictAlonso DuraldeOct 26, 2023
Freddy’s is rarely frightening — a crowd-friendly PG-13 means fear and carnage are suggested but almost no blood is shown — and it doesn’t have much to say about its underlying subject matter besides, “Hey, wouldn’t it be weird if those musical pizza robots came to life and had sharp teeth?” Read full review
25
ColliderChase HutchinsonOct 26, 2023
There are moments where it feels like it could have become a more gleefully mean-spirited horror ride by really sinking its teeth into the story and actually biting down, but it remains hamstrung by the rating as well as a lack of creativity. Read full review
20
Screen DailyTim GriersonNov 1, 2023
Unfortunately, this adaptation of the popular 2014 video game fails at delivering scares or cheeky laughs, resulting in a tedious experience that relies heavily on horror’s most cliched tropes. Read full review
20
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriOct 28, 2023
Five Nights at Freddy’s, the movie, is the kind of hollowed-out exercise in atrociousness that pretty much forces you to mull other things, be they what you’re having for dinner, the decline of American community, or the heat death of the universe. Read full review
20
Little White LiesDavid JenkinsOct 25, 2023
The film falls flat due to the fact that it’s a tonal disaster zone. It’s like paying entry to a funfair only to find out you’ve wandered into an open counselling session which is being led by a slipshod college undergraduate. Read full review
12
Washington PostOlivia McCormackOct 26, 2023
Instead of prioritizing jump scares and game lore, as you might hope, the film leans into its gooey Hallmark center, focusing on underdeveloped relationships and predictable plot twists. Read full review
0
Movie NationRoger MooreOct 27, 2023
The crimes associated with these mothballed machines are bland and perfunctory, the direction dull and the script inept in the extreme. Read full review
0
The Associated PressMark KennedyOct 26, 2023
Caught between PG and R, as well as lost at the crossroads of inadvertent comedy and horror, the PG-13 Five Nights at Freddy’s has to go down as one of the poorest films in any genre this year. Read full review
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