★★★★☆ David Gordon Green rounds out his trilogy with a definitive ending for the long-running horror series. An absurd, baroque, and jaw-droppingly ambitious capper to a franchise that has been defined by wild variations in quality, Halloween Ends' reach may well exceed its grasp, but nevertheless offers a fearless and deranged vision in horror.

Jamie Lee Curtis stars in her umpteenth face-off with a retirement-age Michael Myers

The “final” film in the celebrated “Halloween” franchise sees Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Michael Myers supposedly square off once and for all.

The series bows out – allegedly – with an epic showdown between former babysitter Jamie Lee Curtis and her arch-nemesis

Jamie Lee Curtis returns as Laurie Strode in 'Halloween Ends,' the last of David Gordon Green's trilogy. Despite Curtis and Andi Matichak it's bad.

Though full of creative kills and love for the movies that laid the groundwork for it, Halloween Ends sees the franchise stumbling on its way to the finish line.

The series is bowing out, not with a bang, but rather with a whimper

Jamie Lee Curtis takes on Michael Myers one last time in 'Halloween Ends,' an ambitious trilogy closer that lacks the franchise's usual sharpness.

Director David Gordon Green’s 'Halloween Ends' practically rubs our noses in its own bait-and-switch cynicism.

This supposedly final installment of the Halloween franchise is often sluggish, but it livens up considerably when its villain is on screen

Jamie Lee Curtis feels almost incidental to 'Halloween Ends,' a final chapter in name only.

The horror franchise grinds to a creaky end after 44 years

Movie Review: In Halloween Ends, director David Gordon Green and star Jamie Lee Curtis bring the classic slasher series to a surprisingly entertaining end. Michael Myers shows up surprisingly late in this one.

The new Halloween trilogy ends with a whimper.

In Halloween Ends, the biggest killer may be unfair expectations

Forty-four years, 13 movies and innumerable corpses later, it sounds naïve to think “Halloween Ends” will really mark the end of anything, but like the holiday for which it’s named, it’s fun to pretend. The producers do seek to bring finality to this latest trilogy featuring Jamie Lee Curtis, although that turns out to be the only original idea they conjure in an odd, tedious film.

Director David Gordon Green offers little more than a padded coda to the tale of Haddonfield, with a sudden focus on a brand-new character

'Halloween Ends,' the latest and (allegedly) last chapter in the Michael Meyers saga, manages to find an ending while having some shaggy and unhinged fun along the way.

There's a grandeur to the finest moments in David Gordon Green's "Halloween Ends," a film meant to wrap up the saga that made Jamie Lee Curtis famous. Green, an indie film mainstay before "Pineapple Express" made him famous, finishes up his "Halloween" trilogy by having Curtis recreate iconic shots and moments from John Carpenter's "Halloween"…

David Gordon Green's trilogy reboot of the venerable "Halloween" franchise, starring ultimate final girl Jamie Lee Curtis, concludes not with a scream but a whimper.

The ultimate scream queen’s humor, vulnerability and kick-ass nature keep us engaged, even as we scratch our heads at the “Halloween” franchise finale.

The new horror movie, now in theaters and streaming on Peacock, brings Michael Myers back from the grave after Halloween Kills, but can’t find a logical ending to John Carpenter’s saga.

Note: The following review contains spoilers for Halloween Ends. This time last year, while doing press for his rather dreadful Halloween Kills, director David Gordon Green promised the final installment of this rebooted trilogy would tackle both “the pandemic and peculiar politics." Well: a year later, with Halloween Ends now upon us, this writer can

So-called finale of the Michael Myers saga is just stabbing, metaphors, stabbing, soap opera, stabbing, marching band bullies, stabbing and more stabbing.

Parting the mists of myth to look evil in the face, Halloween Ends is a fascinating if flawed finale.

"Halloween Ends," in theaters and streaming on Peacock on Oct. 15, finds Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) battling serial killer Michael Myers for the final time.

The slasher franchise breathes its last in a refreshingly not-terrible final farewell

If one discounts Halloween III, it has taken twelvemovies, four timelines, and nearly 45 years to get to this point. If there wassuch at thing as “truth in advertising” in movie titles, this would be the lastbow of one of movie-dom’s longest-...

'Halloween Ends' review: The latest chapter of slasher franchise shifts focus to a psychological thriller.

Halloween Ends is notable mainly for its cockamamie plot and its reverence for the original.

The vicious new trilogy comes to a close with an ambitious final chapter that argues nothing bad ever really ends.

If you like 'Halloween' movies, 'Halloween Ends' is certainly one of those. The capper of the David Gordon Green trilogy is perfectly fine.