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35 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawChild’s Play bubbles with entertaining bad taste.
- 80Total FilmJames MottramTotal FilmJames MottramIf your humour skews towards the sick and twisted, then this box-fresh Child’s Play will give you one almighty kick.
- Child’s Play is pure entertaining fun for the horror fan, but not much else. It doesn’t reinvent the wheel, nor does it offer much depth, particularly with its characters. While the cast is amiable enough, they’re mostly surface-level archetypes.
- 62IGNRosie KnightIGNRosie KnightChild's Play is a passable but plain remake that's saved by a blisteringly bonkers third act.
- 60TheWrapElizabeth WeitzmanTheWrapElizabeth WeitzmanThe movie’s biggest strength is its balance between mordant humor and psychological fear.
- 60The TelegraphRobbie CollinThe TelegraphRobbie CollinFor those of us old enough to have been terrorised the first time round, it delivers a nasty-but-nice-enough childhood flashback.
- 50We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoWe Got This CoveredMatt DonatoYour enjoyment of Child's Play will depend on if "Chucky 2.0" is funny enough for your horror comedy tastes, because without investment in Kaslan's "Buddi," there's not much to appreciate beyond a few gnarly slasher deaths.
- 40VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeThis is the new normal for horror movies: The screenplays have to seem hipper than the premise they represent, which puts “Child’s Play” in the weird position of pointing out and poking fun at all the ways it fails to make sense.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterKeith UhlichThe Hollywood ReporterKeith UhlichStem to stern, this 88-minute slasher runs like the clockwork bit of machinery it is, and that baseline competence effectively leeches it of personality.
- 20The New York TimesBen KenigsbergThe New York TimesBen KenigsbergIn trying to build a smarter Chucky, the filmmakers have assembled something unfathomably dumb.