I Know What You Did Last Summer
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: July 18, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
42
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
15
Negative:
9

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
Boston GlobeOdie HendersonJul 16, 2025
Despite a high body count, director-cowriter Jennifer Kaytin Robinson’s version is not gory enough to satiate gorehounds. The atmospheric cinematography, by Elisha Christian, and the bombastic score, by Chanda Dancy, fail to accompany or elicit a single good scare. Read full review
38
The Associated PressMark KennedyJul 16, 2025
Look, we hate to break it to you, it’s not going to end well for many of this privileged set, as they hunt whoever is hunting them. Coherence is also stabbed a lot because a clear motive for the mass murder is really hard to understand. Read full review
30
VarietyOwen GleibermanJul 16, 2025
I appreciated that Robinson was actually trying to make a real movie out of all this. Yet it’s not a real movie. It’s a concoction impersonating one. Read full review
25
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliJul 21, 2025
Robinson's movie flip-flops back and forth between being inept and goofy. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineRocco T. ThompsonJul 16, 2025
Late in this reboot, a character states “Nostalgia is overrated,” and it feels like an indictment of the film we’ve been watching. Far from making a case for the original I Know What You Did Last Summer as one with its own identity and a legacy worth turning over, Robinson’s update is so cynically made and self-indulgent that it will at least leave you respecting the workmanlike scare-making that director Jim Gillespie brought to the 1997 film. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoJul 16, 2025
There’s just so much missing, including logic. Read full review
20
NMEVictoria LuxfordJul 18, 2025
This awkward by-the-numbers slasher wouldn’t have stood up to scrutiny three decades ago and falls desperately short in an era where elevated horror has become the norm. Read full review
20
Rolling StoneDavid FearJul 16, 2025
It’s the sensation that you’re watching something that’s sloppy, overthought, undercooked and can’t decide whether it wants to honor the original (it fails), add to both the in-house lore and the longstanding genre tropes of the slasher canon (it does not), or some combo of both (two missed opportunities for the price of one). Read full review
10
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriJul 16, 2025
Not scary enough to thrill, funny enough to charm, or clever enough to convince, I Know What You Did Last Summer isn’t just forgettable. It’s actively irritating. Read full review
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