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

REVIEWS
NEWS
INTERVIEWS
OTHER
OFCS Rating: 100% 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

3/4
"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."  Mr. Brown's Movies  Michael Dequina

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
OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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