Halloween Ends
Universal Pictures | Release Date: October 14, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
47
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Mixed or average reviews based on 46 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
25
Negative:
9
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
Film ThreatJason DelgadoOct 21, 2022
The opening sequence is an amazing horror scene and sets a tone that the rest of the movie doesn’t even try to follow until the climactic finale. Read full review
60
PolygonRafael MotamayorOct 17, 2022
This was an ambitious trilogy that tried to take the Halloween franchise to new places, but it ultimately falls short, introducing so many ideas that it quickly abandons, while forgetting about the one thing it was always supposed to be about: Laurie Strode. Read full review
60
Time OutPhil de SemlyenOct 13, 2022
It’s just got enough fresh ideas, laughs (mostly intentional) and queasy jump scares to make for a raucous Friday night at the movies. Read full review
60
Little White LiesDavid JenkinsOct 13, 2022
It’s maybe disingenuous to say this, but the shift in tone and quality is so extreme that it feels as if Green has been let off his leash a little and allowed to make something far more in tune with the insightful, intimate, sensitive dramas upon which he made his name. Read full review
60
Total FilmJamie GrahamOct 13, 2022
Fans, naturally, might simply want what they came for, and leave licking wounds. But they should be partially sated by some grisly kills and nods to Carpenter classics Christine and The Thing. And besides, let’s not fool ourselves that it really ends here. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter was followed a year later by Friday the 13th: A New Beginning. Read full review
60
The TelegraphEd PowerOct 13, 2022
Still, there is no denying that the film clicks up a gear when he’s on screen. He says nothing and his motives have not moved beyond “kill, kill, kill”. But he is one of horror’s true stars and, if Halloween Ends often sluggish and silly, Myers powers through the mediocrity one brutal swipe at a time. Read full review
60
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisOct 13, 2022
Green has made a movie that’s less frantic and more intimate than its predecessor, one that unfolds with a mourning finality. Read full review
60
IGNTom JorgensenOct 13, 2022
There are some memorable kills and reverence for the franchise at large, but it stumbles as it brings it to a close. Read full review
50
The Associated PressJocelyn NoveckOct 17, 2022
Did you want closure in a satisfyingly coherent way? That’s not what you’ll get. Did you want to see Curtis in one more (we think) badass performance as durable Laurie Strode, whom she’s been playing for some 45 years? You’ll get that. Did you want to see more gore and guts, with a disturbingly creative scene involving a record turntable? You’ll get that, too. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyJoshua RothkopfOct 14, 2022
Before it lumbers to its big showdown — halfheartedly, with all the excitement of a third installment of a third reboot cycle — Halloween Ends is an unusually Michael Myers-free affair. Where's the big guy? Read full review
50
The Film StageEthan VestbyOct 13, 2022
Unfortunately Halloween Ends can’t stick the landing of its bizarre twist. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisOct 13, 2022
Halloween Ends is far from a great finale, but it’s a decent showcase for Jamie Lee Curtis, whose place in film history has long been assured because of this role. Will this be the last we see of Laurie Strode, or the “Halloween” storyline? It’s best to wait for the box-office reports. After all, franchises never die — they just change shape. Read full review
50
USA TodayBrian TruittOct 13, 2022
It’s a denouement that ventures too far afield from familiarity, a good-vs.-evil slugfest more complicated than it needs to be, and a “Halloween” flick that should go out with a roar but instead closes with a masked wheeze. Read full review
50
Screen RantBen KendrickOct 13, 2022
Halloween Ends is a satisfying enough conclusion to the H40 trilogy and, overall, the three films provide the strongest Halloween sequel continuity of the franchise's twelve post-Halloween 1978 follow-ups. For that reason, even if Green rolled the dice (and lost) on an underwhelming central premise for Ends, a satisfying conclusion to Laurie's story from Halloween 1978 to 2022 was worth any missteps that plague Kills and Ends. Still, in spite of this, it's hard to ignore that Halloween 2018 set a high bar for Green's revival trilogy - a bar that was undermined by the following chapter and is barely improved in Halloween Ends. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubTodd GilchristOct 13, 2022
Halloween Ends is almost passable as a nondescript sequel—a little blood pumped into the carcass of an indefatigable slab of intellectual property. But for somebody who has fought and lost and survived for so many years, it’s less vital a finale than Laurie Strode deserves. Read full review
50
SlashfilmJeff EwingOct 13, 2022
Halloween Ends settles the series' score, but it does so in a way that lacks a central logic and that spends an inordinate amount of time on things that fail to matter. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreOct 13, 2022
Give Green props for all that he got right, bringing Curtis back and making her the focus, for starters. But all involved seem to have painted themselves into a narrative corner that they weren’t able to write their way out of. Read full review
45
Paste MagazineJim VorelOct 14, 2022
In truth, the entirety of Halloween Ends is suffused in some kind of magic or witchcraft, a gauzy layer of unreality that prevents a single character in the film from behaving like an actual human being. Read full review
40
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeOct 17, 2022
The scares are sad, puny little things. Even Jamie Lee Curtis seems to have lost the will to fight. It’s time that Myers and his mouldy old mask were laid to rest. Let’s hope nobody decides to disinter him yet again. Read full review
40
ABC NewsPeter TraversOct 14, 2022
After 44 years Jamie Lee Curtis bows out of her iconic role with slashing feminist fire, but if you believe blood-lusting Michael Myers is really hanging up his mask in this divisive scam of a Halloween ending then you don’t know how greed powers Hollywood’s gift for resurrection. Read full review
40
Screen DailyTim GriersonOct 13, 2022
Jamie Lee Curtis brings a regal bearing to her performance, but the prevailing feeling is of a cinematic series that’s probably best left for dead. Read full review
40
EmpireBen TravisOct 13, 2022
The Michael versus Laurie showdown delivers — but for the most part, Halloween Ends is an unsatisfying closing chapter for this continuity. In trying to grapple with the horror beneath Michael Myers’ mask, it gets lost up its own abyss. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshOct 13, 2022
Halloween Ends has the feeling of dour obligation, and it’s clear that no one’s heart is really in this anymore, the limits of narrative possibility in Haddonfield stretched beyond their max. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzOct 13, 2022
If this is the end — and who are we kidding, the film’s box-office returns will determine that, not its plot — it’s a disappointing one. But it’s long past time to let it die. Read full review
40
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiOct 13, 2022
The film eventually provides some memorable gore but the ultimate conclusion is unconvincing and perfunctory. Read full review
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