Scream (2022 film; also known as “Scream 5”)

Horror fans agree: “It Could’ve Been Worse!” This soft reboot (yes, that’s the term I’m using, “requel” is a dumb word and I refuse to use it) thinks it has more brains and personality than it has, which might’ve been fine if it were fun and it isn’t. “Scr5am” might’ve been salvageable or even consistently entertaining if it started from the place of manic energy at its climax and built from there, but that would involve doing something besides self-referential jokes for ninety minutes. Jenny Ortega and Mikey Madison “understood the assignment” and some jokes worked, but this mostly sucked.

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