David Gordon Green's Halloween Kills has critics split down the middle.

Halloween Kills currently has a 53% on Rotten Tomatoes after 16 critics reviews. This is a stark contrast from the previous 2018 Halloween, which currently has a Certified Fresh rating of 79% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer and an audience score of 70%.

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David Rooney, THR: "What's most disappointing is that after reimagining Curtis' Laurie as a fierce warrior grandmother, hardened by PTSD into a tough customer at considerable cost to her personal relationships, here she's basically sidelined in post-surgery recovery. She gets to spout some wobbly Halloween lore, about Michael transcending mortality to become a superhuman disseminator of fear. But mostly she's just killing time waiting for the inevitable showdown in the closing chapter."

Asher Luberto, The Wrap: "For all the deep and troubling psychoanalysis of this film, it's also a textbook Halloween movie. Curtis remains the perfect Final Girl, showcasing a range of emotions in a single frame: tired, resilient, resourceful and terrified. The film is expertly shot by returning cinematographer Michael Simmonds, who crafts some memorably chilling images, highly stylized and dimly lit. Carpenter's score (composed in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter) offers some of the franchise's Greatest Hits with a couple remixes thrown in to catch you off guard."

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Owen Glieberman, Variety: "Halloween night may be Michael Myers' masterpiece, but Halloween Kills is no masterpiece. It's a mess -- a slasher movie that's almost never scary, slathered with 'topical' pablum and with too many parallel plot strands that don’t go anywhere. Green, as clever a job as he did on the first film, wastes no time cutting back to where the Halloween series ultimately landed: in a swamp of luridly repetitive and empty sequels, with Michael turned into such an omnipresent icon that his image gets drained of any nightmare quality. He's more like someone who belongs on a lunchbox. Curtis, so good in the last one, is mostly wasted this time (you can feel the film trying to think up things for her to do), as Laurie's daughter (Judy Greer) and granddaughter (Andi Matichak) do most of the heavy lifting."

Jonathan Romney, The Guardian: "Forty years after John Carpenter made the defining slasher movie, director David Gordon Green has made a creditable stab, as it were, at reanimating the title. Green is an occasional indie auteur (George Washington, Prince Avalanche) who leads a double life as a mainstream stalwart, and showed in his 2018 Halloween reboot that he's more than competent at straight genre thrills. Writing again with Danny McBride, here joined by Scott Teems, Green offers a functional but enjoyably efficient follow-up. It kicks in only minutes after the events of the previous episode, and pretty much follows a straight line, apart from brief flashbacks to 1978, with even a passable Donald Pleasence lookalike on hand to lend authenticity."

Ben Rolph, DiscussingFilm: "Now after the long wait, the next continuation, Halloween Kills, is here and is just as good as its predecessor, but it takes the slash in 'slasher' up to a thousand and it's all the better for it."

Halloween Kills slashes its way into theaters (and on Peacock) on Oct. 15.

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Source: Rotten Tomatoes