Heart Eyes
Screen Gems | Release Date: February 7, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
61
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 28 Critic Reviews
Positive:
14
Mixed:
11
Negative:
3
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
Original-CinThom ErnstFeb 6, 2025
Despite some impressive kills and a respectable body count, Heart Eyes is more romcom than slasher. However, it's a genre mishmash that creates a wholly unexpected delight. Imagine Jason Voorhees stumbling onto the set of Sleepless in Seattle or an entry in the Scream franchise directed by Garry Marshall. Read full review
88
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiFeb 7, 2025
Heart Eyes seems destined to become a Valentine’s Day favorite, that rare horror movie with a great and charming love story, and that even rarer romantic comedy with a great and savage serial killer. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comPeyton RobinsonFeb 5, 2025
Heart Eyes is a raving good time. As a Valentine’s Day flick and a horror picture, it lands for fans of all kinds: those who seek warmth, wrath, or both. Read full review
83
IndieWireAlison ForemanFeb 6, 2025
This nutty blend of hyper-violence and one-liners is a dark comedic delicacy. Read full review
80
EmpireIan FreerFeb 14, 2025
An affectionate bloody valentine to both romcoms and horror, Heart Eyes is a like a Hinge date from hell. Smart, funny, intense; swipe right. Read full review
80
VarietyCourtney HowardJan 31, 2025
Thoroughly self-aware (perhaps to a fault), stocked with self-reflexive gags and gorily-orchestrated kills, the picture is endearing with its delightfully zippy charms. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerFeb 6, 2025
Broad, sharp, hysterical, witty, and perfect for everyone who likes their Valentine’s hearts with candy or carved, still beating out of their chest. Read full review
75
USA TodayBrian TruittFeb 6, 2025
Heart Eyes is tastier than a box of candy hearts, unleashes some highly entertaining kills and sticks mostly to its genre scripts. But if it drags even one horror-hating significant other over to the dark side, that’s a bloody win. Read full review
75
Washington PostJen YamatoFeb 5, 2025
As the tropes pile up faster than tears in a Nicholas Sparks novel, so do the bodies, dispatched in increasingly inventive and grisly ways. Read full review
73
Paste MagazineJesse HassengerFeb 10, 2025
Heart Eyes can’t help but swoon at the rich tradition of slashers serving as first-date fodder. It’s not especially scary, but it’s a thrill all the same. Read full review
70
ColliderAidan KelleyJan 31, 2025
The two leads are so charming, the jokes are genuinely funny, and the kills are delightfully gorey. Read full review
63
ObserverDylan RothFeb 7, 2025
It’s both a pretty good post-Kevin Williamson slasher movie and a pretty good post-Nora Ephron studio romcom. The finished recipe isn’t much more than the sum of its ingredients, but when one of those ingredients is in such short supply, the result is some welcome — if blood-splattered — comfort food. Read full review
63
The Seattle TimesMark MeszorosFeb 5, 2025
Overall, Heart Eyes has a winning formula, but maybe don’t expect it to sweep you off your feet. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineJustin ClarkFeb 1, 2025
Heart Eyes is a slasher movie first, and a gnarly one at that, with some imaginative, seat-shiftingly gruesome kills, and some particularly ominous set pieces. Read full review
60
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeFeb 19, 2025
It’s all fairly predictable. Anyone who has seen more than a couple of serial killer movies will have no problem assembling a list of possible masked murderers. But Josh Ruben’s film goes above and beyond when it comes to squelchy, visceral gore. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreFeb 7, 2025
Heart Eyes is strong enough that the shortcomings that keep it in the realm of the passable instead of the actually good are maddening. Read full review
60
ABC NewsPeter TraversFeb 7, 2025
For all its imperfections and borrowed horror inspirations, this cheeky romcom scarefest is still one movie Valentine that delivers the goods for shudders and cuddles. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesAmy NicholsonFeb 5, 2025
A Valentine’s Day massacre in which PDA leads to public executions, it’s got decent gags, middling scares and a rationale sloppier than two dogs sharing a strand of spaghetti. As date night fare, it’ll do. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckJan 31, 2025
The creatives’ obvious affinity for the genre comes through in every frame of the film, and to their credit Heart Eyes includes many clever touches. Read full review
60
SlashfilmChris EvangelistaJan 31, 2025
Heart Eyes is solid enough to entertain. The jokes land, the leads are great, and the romance storyline is surprisingly sweet. Read full review
60
IGNA.A. Dowd Jan 31, 2025
From the sincerity of the lead performances to the cartoonish gore offered by Werewolves Within director Josh Rubenn. There are much worse ways to spend Valentine’s Day than a genre cocktail for saps and gorehounds alike. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubKatie RifeFeb 5, 2025
Even when its characters do get earnest, Heart Eyes has its tongue so far in its cheek that these moments of vulnerability are also viewed from an ironic distance. Instead of feeling for these characters, we’re waiting for the bloody punchline—which will come, and will be funny in a deliciously morbid kind of way. There’s nothing to hold on to, and certainly nothing to be afraid of. Read full review
50
The Daily BeastNick SchagerFeb 5, 2025
[A] bland stab at genre hybridization, whose sole accomplishment is falling flat at everything it tries. Read full review
50
Screen RantMolly FreemanJan 31, 2025
All in all, Heart Eyes is a fine horror movie. It has a fun and unique idea, and the first act of the movie is very strong, but Heart Eyes loses its way and culminates in a middling-to-bad third act that squanders all the potential of the premise and beginning. Read full review
40
The GuardianBenjamin LeeFeb 7, 2025
Whatever might have made sense on paper just doesn’t translate to screen, a fun little concept that ends up being something of a drag. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreFeb 7, 2025
The goofy tone is maintained, start to finish. But that finale is the biggest dud among the various clunky set-ups that don’t produce anything funny or scary or romantic. Read full review
30
Little White LiesBillie WalkerFeb 14, 2025
Unfortunately Heart Eyes is so vacuous and confused that it can’t even decide if it’s cynical or sentimental about love itself. Read full review
30
The New York TimesErik PiepenburgFeb 6, 2025
It’s hard to discern who the film is for when it feels as if it’s been passed around genre writing classes in search of an identity. Read full review
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