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Movie Overview
Cast
• Neve Campbell
• Courteney Cox
• Drew Barrymore
Director
• Wes Craven
MPAA Rating
R
Scream (1996)

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OFCS Rating: 94% Fresh
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3.5/5
"It's a... well... a scream."  Filmcritic.com  Christopher Null

"The movie is less concerned with explaining motivations than it is with dismantling the social mechanisms which produce them."  Philadelphia City Paper  Cynthia Fuchs

72/100
"Scream is so hip and irreverent that you almost forget it's a slasher movie. Almost."  Apollo Guide  Dan Jardine

3/4
"It breaks new ground, and hopefully, it opens us up to new formulas and creative situations in these movies."  Cinemaphile.org  David Keyes

7/10
"Its commercial success was well-justified."  rec.arts.movies.reviews  Dragan Antulov

3.5/4
"A pointedly knowledgeable, frequently funny satire on slasher conventions and a terrifically scary, joyously suspenseful horror picture."  DustinPutman.com  Dustin Putman

3/4
"Scream is a rarity: a horror movie spoof that succeeds almost as well at provoking scares as laughs."  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

3/4
"a nineties-style teenage slasher movie with just enough tongue-in-cheek understanding of its own silliness to make it gruesomely fun without being insulting"  Q Network Film Desk  James Kendrick

5
"Kevin Williamson has managed to make a movie that is both genuine scary movie and arch parody of scary movies."  Cinerina  Karina Montgomery

3.5/4
"The film was written by Kevin Williamson, and his screenplay is smart as it is hip."  Montreal Film Journal  Kevin N. Laforest

3/4
"Wes Craven has matured past his old horror film days."  Movie Habit  Marty Mapes

9/10
"Scream cleverly plays with movie conventions and the audience's expectations so that we're kept constantly guessing."  Flick Filosopher  MaryAnn Johanson

3.5/4
"Ironically, the predictability is actually one of the film's virtues."  TheMovieReport.com  Michael Dequina

4/5
"The film opens with one of the best, most intense, most unexpected opening sequences I’ve ever seen then rips on for another ninety minutes or so, rarely flagging in terms of pace."  Mike Bracken's Horror Films  Mike Bracken

4/5
"O que há de mais interessante neste filme (e o que o torna tão divertido) é o fato dele ser capaz de criticar e, ao mesmo tempo, seguir todas as regras básicas do gênero."  Cinema em Cena  Pablo Villaca

4/5
"Witty, tightly structured, and often effective as a straight horror film."  eFilmCritic.com  Rob Gonsalves

8/10
"It is the cream of a pretty bad crop"  Laramie Movie Scope  Robert Roten

5/10
"Self-knowing badness is in fact badness; it might actually be worse than just regular old badness because it is, in addition to everything else, smug."  Antagony & Ecstasy  Tim Brayton
OFCS Rating: 94% Fresh
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