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Average Critic Score: 18 (17 sources)

• 80
  

  
  Los Angeles Times  |  Kevin Thomas
  

  A smart, stylish horror picture that offers a fresh twist on the ever-reliable revenge theme and affords a raft of talented young actors solid roles that show them to advantage. Read Full Review »
• 60
  

  
  Salon.com  |  Andrew O'Hehir
  

  OK, so Valentine is, like, this new serial-killer movie that totally blows. But kind of in a good way. Like, it's funny. Read Full Review »
• 50
  

  
  San Francisco Chronicle  |  Mick LaSalle
  

  Valentine isn't scary, but it is unsettling; not ultimately satisfying, but arresting in the moment. Read Full Review »
• 50
  

  
  Chicago Reader  |  Lisa Alspector
  

  Lightweight slasher. Read Full Review »
• 38
  

  
  USA Today  |  Staff [Not Credited]
  

  A nose-bleeding mass murderer wears a mask that suggests Roger Ebert is knocking off a group of lifelong female friends. Read Full Review »
• 25
  

  
  New York Post  |  Lou Lumenick
  

  The dreary, direct-to-video quality of the script, acting and cinematography in this latest entry seemed to inspire more yawns than screams, and not a few titters. Read Full Review »
• 25
  

  
  Christian Science Monitor  |  David Sterritt
  

  The slasher-movie genre may never die, but can't its perpetrators think up variations more clever than this by-the-numbers rehash? Read Full Review »
• 25
  

  
  Entertainment Weekly  |  Owen Gleiberman
  

  Doesn't contain a single scary or imaginative moment. Read Full Review »
• 25
  

  
  Boston Globe  |  Jay Carr
  

  A flagrantly retro example of a tired genre that would vanish in a puff of smoke if anger management classes were to enter the picture, or if it would ever occur to any one of its endless stream of victims to reach for a light switch before proceeding into a spooky place. Read Full Review »
• 20
  

  
  TV Guide  |  Maitland McDonagh
  

  Director Jamie Blanks "Urban Legend" appears to be carving himself a career making slasher movies for a new generation; unfortunately, he's in no way improving on the originals. Read Full Review »
• 20
  

  
  Variety  |  Dennis Harvey
  

  Looking good but lacking much in the way of personality or gray matter -- rather like its characters -- Valentine is a straightforward slasher pic that's acceptably scary until a weak finale. Read Full Review »
• 10
  

  
  LA Weekly  |  Paul Malcolm
  

  Highly reductive and deathly dull slasher flick. Read Full Review »
• 10
  

  
  The New York Times  |  A.O. Scott
  

  It feels like both a joke and a turkey. Read Full Review »
• 10
  

  
  Film.com  |  Gemma Files
  

  Valentine simply mines the same tired, predictable slasher-movie vein as everything else he's (Blanks) done thus far. Send this one back unopened. Read Full Review »
• 4
  

  
  Mr. Showbiz  |  Cody Clark
  

  Because so little of what occurs on-screen either engages or entertains, there's ample time for the boiler of your self-respect to build up quite a head of indignation at the forfeiture of your time, money, and (exceedingly minimal) cerebral exertion. Read Full Review »
• 0
  

  
  Austin Chronicle  |  Marc Savlov
  

  Valentine succeeds only in boring you to death. Read Full Review »
• 0
  

  
  New York Daily News  |  Elizabeth Weitzman
  

  Lacking the requisite post-"Scream" irony, the film is simply a package of gougings, stabbings, drillings and guttings, all tied up with a "twist" ending that anyone with a still-functioning brain could figure out in a matter of minutes. Read Full Review »