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starstarstarstar Joe Baltake - Sacramento Bee
starstarstarstar Moira Macdonald - Film.com
starstarstar Tom Long - Detroit News
starstarstar Susan Wloszczyna - USA Today
starstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstar Michael Grace - The Reel Site
starstarstar Jay Carr - Boston Globe
starstarstar Janet Maslin - NY Times
starstarstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstarstar Walter Addiego - SF Examiner
starstarstar John Hartl - Seattle Times
starstarstar Kevin Thomas - LA Times
starstar Roger Moore - Winston-Salem Journal
starstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News
starstar Bruce Westbrook - Houston Chronicle

If it’s possible for a horror flick to be existential, this is it. And [director Wes] Craven and his scenarist Kevin Williamson have pulled it off so effortlessly and with so little pretensiont

- Joe Baltake

Extract the now-stale references to horror films, and it’s just a hackneyed hack-’em-up with scant more invention than a brawny action romp

- Bruce Westbrook

Scream 2

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Survivor Neve Campbell is a drama major at a Midwestern university where copycat murders begin again. David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jamie Kennedy, Laurie Metcalf, Elise Neal, Duane Martin, Jerry O'Connell, Timothy Olyphant, Jada Pinkett, Liev Schreiber, Rebecca Gayheart. Director: Wes Craven (1997, R)

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