Jamie Lee Curtis is back to take on Michael Myers.

Halloween Kills can’t help but shoot (and stab and bludgeon) itself in the foot

Halloween Kills picks up where 2018’s Halloween ends, with three generations of Strode women leaving a hard-fought battle, battered and exhausted. Of co...

Exciting 2018 film lit up the horror franchise, but sloppy sequel snuffs it out.

Halloween Kills fails to resurrect the franchise. But that was as predictable as the fact that Michael Myers is indestructible, no?

O Haddonfield! My Haddonfield! Why, in the name of fictitious Illinois towns, have you resorted to hapless mob violence, like the pitchfork crowd in “Frank...

“Halloween Kills” is a strange name for a 43-year-old franchise that positively refuses to die. Then again, this 12th film in the series – a direct seq...

Tragically, Halloween Kills falls prey to the very tropes they think they're sending up. Read our review of the movie.

Jamie Lee Curtis picks up the screaming where she left off in the latest film of the 'Halloween' franchise, in theaters and streaming on Peacock, Oct. 15.

Jamie Lee Curtis returns to face Michael Myers once again in David Gordon Green's sequel to 2018's Halloween. Read the Empire review.

Michael Myers kills people, and he kills them on Halloween. This is about all that “Halloween Kills,” the latest in this long-running horror franchise, h...

Halloween Kills is a smart, sturdy second chapter that ably sets up the big finale

Jamie Lee Curtis is back to take on Michael Myers.

Michael Myers is once again back in Haddonfield to spread carnage by the light of jack-o’-lanterns in this second part of a trilogy tied directly to John C...

Leaving Jamie Lee Curtis unconscious or in surgery for most of this sequel is the least of its problems

The box office success of the 2018 film means that not just a sequel is in order, but a saga — meaning the people of Haddonfield are doomed.

Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Claudia Puig, Peter Rainer and Tim Cogshell review this weekend’s new movie releases on streaming and on-demand platforms.

Michael Myers runs amok once more in director David Gordon Green’s strangely lacklustre slasher sequel.

“Halloween Kills” knows what you’re here for. It’s right there in the title! On that score, the new movie does not disappoint.

The newest installment of the “Halloween” franchise, starring Jamie Lee Curtis, is a murderous mess that substitutes corpses for characters.

The disappointing sequel fails on nearly every single moviemaking level.

The following words, spoken by Dr. Sam Loomis (DonaldPleasance) in the 1978 Halloween regarding his patient, Michael Myers,loom large over the 2021 sequel, H...

It definitely doesn’t kill. It barely even wounds.

Well-crafted but not particularly well thought-out, “Halloween Kills” is a hot mess of a horror homage. David Gordon Green’s take on venerable slasher ...

'Halloween Kills,' a sequel to the 2018 reboot, is a crime scene in all the wrong ways: It kills your desire to see more 'Halloween' movies.

Let's just get this out of the way: Halloween Kills is bad. While there are innumerable factors contributing to whether or not your particular experience...

The latest slasher is a big step down from the last ‘Halloween.’

Old rubber face is back, and Bentonville is on fire in director David Gordon Green's second franchise instalment

Halloween Kills is a more-than-worthy sequel, and one that proves Michael Myers is boogeyman worthy of our ongoing fascination.

Purists among the series’ devotees will probably welcome its back-to-basics approach, along with the news there is one more instalment to come.

Themes are not explored enough and Jamie Lee Curtis is sidelined for half the movie.

The original "Halloween" painted a frightening vision of suburban life. None of its sequels has managed to do the same.

Where does one even begin with Halloween Kills? Is it paramount to speak of its content, which achieves the impossible of being so stretched out that it coul...

Halloween Kills is the second part of a new trilogy set to be capped off next fall with Halloween Ends

Shambolic horror doesn't thrill Linda Marric

Not even Jamie Lee Curtis can save the 12th Halloween film

Jamie Lee Curtis's Laurie is joined by characters we haven't seen since the 1978 original, as Haddonfield fights back against its collective nightmare

There’s nothing creepily suggestive about Halloween Kills. Everything it amounts to is right there on its shallow, pitted surface

Horror sequel 'Halloween Kills' takes a stab at keeping Jamie Lee Curtis' buzzy franchise relevant, with mixed results for the latest bloody outing.

After his clever 2018 reboot, David Gordon Green fumbles the ball in a follow-up that falls back into the forgettability of sequel formula.

It wants to be a gonzo send-up and a social-message movie at the same time. It winds up being neither.

David Gordon Green's Halloween was a breath of fresh air for both the stagnant franchise and the slasher genre as a whole; discarding 40 years of poor sequel...