Halloween is [Laurie Strode's] love letter to all of us, wrapped in a most excellent slasher movie.

[Forgets] that a decent Halloween movie should take its cue from Michael Myers: low on chat, high on surprise. Even so, this one can still boast a higher-than-average proportion of treats among its tricks.

A brutal rumination on intergenerational pain, and the ways that male cruelty can make good women bad.

This is one of the stronger sequels/reboots in this checkered franchise and would have been a banger of a way to end it.