Scarier, gorier, and funnier than the original, Smile 2 will have you grinning ear to ear while watching between your fingers.

"Smile 2" takes the simplicity of the 2022 horror hit and blows it up, big. Naomi Scott plays a Taylor Swift-like pop star trapped in a deadly curse.

Parker Finn refuses to take the safest, most obvious path in Smile 2, the follow-up to his 2022 hit film. Adhering to the time-honored tradition of going big...

This sequel goes in a newish direction. This time, the anguished center of the narrative is a musician about to launch a massive world tour.

Filmmaker Parker Finn and his magnetic star, Naomi Scott, mesmerize and shock for almost two hours before logic takes a dive.

A review of 'Smile 2' with Naomi Scott now caught up in sinister metaphysical being invading human bodies and passing on the curse in horror sequel

Naomi Scott plays a pop star stricken with the curse that keeps on cursin’.

Smile 2 gets bigger, louder, and flatter in a gaudy, gory sequel.

Sequel to 2022 smash takes on modern pop stardom to unsettling effect.

Naomi Scott's pop star is haunted by a smiling entity in Parker Finn's horror sequel. Read the Empire review.

Here's our verdict

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Naomi Scott is a traumatized pop star in Parker Finn's 'Smile 2.' Read IndieWire's review.

Review: Smile 2 is one of the rare sequels that improves upon the original, and ranks as one of the better horror movies of the year.

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Returning writer-director Parker Finn kicks up the creativity with a screenplay set in the pop world, as a celebrity finds herself stalked, and not only by f...

If "Smile 2" feels just as good as its predecessor, then it's entirely thanks to Naomi Scott, who helps anchor the twisty plot with her captivating performance.

Parker Finn follows up his 2022 smash with a suitably silly sequel, in which a pop star becomes the latest victim of the grinning demon who drives victims to...

A middling facsimile of the hit original

In this sequel, the pop sensation Skye Riley (Naomi Scott) is preparing to begin her comeback tour a year after a brutal car accident.

This sequel—in which a pop star just has to contend with different sorts of demons than the ones that sent her to rehab—should quench the blood thirst of...

Everyone’s favorite terrifying grin is back

Smile 2 takes the ideas and aesthetic of the originalSmile and doubles down on them. Unlike many horror sequels, which comeacross as watered-down retreads of...

Finn loves faces, the ones twisted by evil, and the ones shattered by fright.

“Smile 2” is a genuinely horrific plunge into terror. Writer-director Parker Finn revives his 2022 creation with a sequel of real ambition. Dude spent a ...

Follow-up to the 2022 horror hit puts a post-rehab female singer through the ringer, then hits 'repeat' on the creepy-grin button.

Sequel to Paramount's 2022 horror hit lacks the crucial element of surprise

Despite some flaws, Smile 2 is a bigger, meaner horror sequel that gets the job done. It's also a lot of fun. Here's our review.

A pop star is put through an unholy nightmare that will make audiences go wild. No, Lady Gaga is not involved.

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"Smile 2" stars Naomi Scott as a pop star who gets infected with the demonic curse from the first film, resulting in a horrifying and funny trip.

The superior horror sequel centers on Naomi Scott's Skye Riley, a global pop sensation who contracts the franchise's smile-fueled curse.

Naomi Scott's performance as a pop-star diva grappling with demons, including her own, gives Parker Finn's sequel a genuine emotional center.

What starts off as a thoughtful thriller set in the world of pop stardom winds up mired in the usual horror-movie clichés.

It might even make you grin.