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Five Nights at Freddy's

2023

Emma Tammi

Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, Matthew Lillard, Piper Rubio ...

4.7

2,974

Horror. Fantasy Based on the popular horror video game, a man starts a job working as a night watch security guard at the restaurant Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, where he discovers the animatronics move at night and will kill anyone they see.

	Media	Author	Review
		Murtada Elfadl Variety	"Creepy mascots go rogue in a listless and repetitive video game adaptation"
		Tim Robey Telegraph	"It promises chills but delivers yawns (...) [It] is awkwardly plotted and low on suspense (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Jeffrey M. Anderson Common Sense Media	"An adaptation of a popular horror video game, this movie starts well, with sympathetic characters, a fun design, and an appealing comical tone, but it goes on too long and eventually falls apart"
		Ian Sandwell Digital Spy	"What's ended up as the 'Five Nights at Freddy's' movie is something packed with video game nods but lumbered by a generic plot that could disappoint fans (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Radheyan Simonpillai The Globe and Mail	"[It] is at its best when it's leaning into the jokes, which doesn't happen enough"
		Chase Hutchinson Collider	"'Five Nights at Freddy's' fails to offer any scares and instead focuses too much on explaining the lore of its world, resulting in a dull and uninteresting experience."
		Pete Hammond Deadline	"Carefully constructed but safe PG13 movie that sacrifices hard-core horror for character development and that at times just drags along, time will tell.
		Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"An unscary Halloween trick (...) A competently made yet maddeningly dull attempt to bring the hit video game to the big screen (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Jeremy Mathai SlashFilm	"It weaponizes this strength to deliver the year's most charming and unabashedly kid-friendly horror flick just in time for spooky season."
		David Crow Den of Geek	"The film has fewer scares (or laughs) than an old episode of 'Goosebumps' (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Josh Korngut Dread Central	"This fun adaptation of the cult 'Five Nights at Freddy's' franchise treats its source material with reverence, but to the point of over-complication (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		William Bibbiani The Wrap	"A tedious adaptation (...) Director Emma Tammi spends more time explaining than showing audiences why the game is so scary"
		Brian Lowry CNN	"A weird horror concoction, fleetingly clever in the early going before gumming up the gears down the home stretch"
		Miles Klee Rolling Stone	"[It] should be so much More fun than it is"
		Adam Lock Ready Steady Cut	"It makes the most of its iconic characters, delivering a fun, twisted slice of horror (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Mark Kennedy Chicago Sun-Times	"Where a dud can be a dud (...) Pizzeria’s animal robots do the slicing in movie lacking laughs or scares."
		David Riedel Chicago Reader	"It isn’t perfect, but it’s compelling and scary enough to beg for sequels"
		Simon Abrams rogerebert.com	"It’s pretty bloody for a PG-13-rated horror movie, though it’s probably not as grisly as you might expect if you’ve played the games (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		A.A. Dowd IGN	"It's a Five Nights at Freddy's that labors under the bizarre assumption that the loyal fanbase wants a lot of extraneous plot surrounding the fun-center horror."
		Tim Robey Telegraph	"Video-game spin-off that promises chills but delivers yawns (...) [It] is awkwardly plotted and low on suspense (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Mae Abdulbaki Screen Rant	"It's fine for what it's going for — just don't expect to be wowed (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"
		Meagan Navarro Bloody Disgusting	"Five Nights at Freddy’s won’t scare the pants off of seasoned horror fans; the animatronic denizens of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria will likely make you want to hug them instead. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Terry Staunton Radio Times	"A solid shocker that’s by no means without appeal but risks disappointing diehards in its target core audience (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Adam Graham Detroit News	"A bizarrely listless horror dud"
		Justin Clark Slant	"'Five Nights at Freddy's' has absolutely no idea what kind of ride it wants to be (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"
		Natalia Winkelman The New York Times	"You may chuckle, but it's hard to tell if the movie is laughing with you"
		Coleman Spilde The Daily Beast	"If there's one frightening thing about 'Five Nights at Freddy's' —and truly, there may only be one— it's that a movie nearly a decade in the making could turn out this lifeless"
		John Serba Decider	"[It] is mirthless, witless dross with no style, no sense of pace, no comedy, no drama and no scares"

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