While it doesn’t do much to elevate the genre, Halloween does tick each and every box, which should be more than enough to appease your run of the mill fanboy.

Director David Gordon Green doesn't give the franchise a glorious rebirth, but at least it's a functional facsimile

Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago. David Gordon Green’s Halloween comes from the right place; there’s no questioning that. Throwing out every other Halloween film in the franchise except for the original

The wandering screenplay and comic digressions work against the tension needed for an effective thriller.

We watched them and rated them, now read all about them. The Globe’s critics reviewed a wide selection of films screening at TIFF 2018 so you’ll know which to line up for, which to catch later and which to skip. Look for more reviews to be added throughout the festival

The latest Halloween instalment is fun while it lasts, but unlike its predecessor, it’s not a classic for the ages.

David Gordon Green takes the Michael Myers saga back to its start with this direct sequel to John Carpenter's landmark slasher film.

The night he came home again (for the first time)

The new Halloween is gory, thoughtful, and surprisingly funny. It’s not an entirely successful film, and it won’t provide an easy template for a new generation of revitalized slasher flicks, but it does serve as a fitting coda to a story that began 40 years ago.

Forty years after the horror classic, the new 'Halloween' sequel unleashes a remarkable Jamie Lee Curtis and a nuanced look at tragedy in America.

Jamie Lee Curtis and the demonic Michael Myers return in the best “Halloween” movie since the 1978 original. Rating: 3.5 stars out of 4.

It’s not a great movie — but boy is it cathartic.

As franchise reboots go, the new “Halloween” is top shelf.

Jamie Lee Curtis makes a terrific return as Laurie Strode, now a grandma haunted by the murders of her youth.

★★★☆☆ Michael Myers returns to slash through celluloid in David Gordon Green’s take on ‘The Shape’ and his karmic counterpoint, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee...

David Gordon Green and Danny McBride's 'Halloween' doesn't just name-check the original, it explores its root appeal.

New hands are at the helm for a knowingly intelligent reboot of the 1978 masterpiece

David Gordon Green’s ‘Halloween’ sequel picks up 40 years after the John Carpenter classic for one final showdown between Michael Myers and Laurie Strode.

It pays homage to the classic slasher film it's based on and gives us the finale we crave from the opening credits. But the ballyhooed David Gordon Green/Danny McBride reboot of "Halloween," while it manages the odd laugh, suffers from the soulless/frightless sequels, remakes and variations on a theme that rained down on us after…

With the tricking and the treating almost upon us, here is a public service announcement. Should it come to your attention that a maniac with a taste for slaughtering teenage babysitters on October 31 is heading your way, in the name of all the saints don’t leave the kids with a teenage babysitter on Wednesday week.

'Halloween' delivers a reboot that doubles as the one true sequel to the 1978 original — a slasher movie for the #MeToo era. Our review.

David Gordon Green's great sequel offers thrills, kills, and even plenty of laughs.

Remorseless, unstoppable and apparently immortal, the Halloween series closely resembles its central character: the dead-eyed killer Michael Myers, who was apprehended and institutionalised at the age of six after slaying his sister, only to escape from hospital 15 years later to return to his Illinois neighbourhood for a spot of late-October commemorative butchery. Since John

Forget all the sequels: the new "Halloween" is a worthy follow-up to the 1978 original

Michael Myers and Laurie Strode are back 40 years later in David Gordon Green's sequel. Read the Empire review.

David Gordon Green and Jamie Lee Curtis take memorable images from Carpenter’s Halloween and turns them on their heads.

Do you know the biggest sin of the new Halloween? It’s just not scary. And that’s one thing you could never say about the original.

In the Halloween 2018 reboot, Jamie Lee Curtis is too long in the tooth to keep screaming her head off every time Michael Myers shows up with a brand new hatchet.

David Gordon Green reboots (kind off) the long-running horror franchise.

Anthony Lane on David Gordon Green’s new “Halloween,” starring Jamie Lee Curtis, and “Wildlife,” starring Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal.