Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
Breslin, whose recent resume hasn't lived up to her Oscar nomination for "Little Miss Sunshine," needs to find something worthy of her talents. An Oscar nominee shouldn't even watch "Final Girl," much less star in it.

Name : Michael O'Sullivan / Alias : Washington Post
Above all else, "The Final Girls" is broad and affectionate in its mockery, making fun of the frequent association between sex and murder in movies of this ilk and other easy targets.

Name : Jesse Hassenger / Alias : AV Club
The mother-daughter material keeps the movie watchable, even as the filmmakers seem to consider its weaknesses the fun parts.

Name : Sherilyn Connelly / Alias : Village Voice
The Final Girls plays with the tropes of the slasher genre as much as its PG-13 rating will allow, and the final showdown is a thing of beauty, but it never attempts to be scary or menacing.

Name : Liz Braun / Alias : Toronto Sun
The Final Girls offers a lovely twist on the horror genre and some good laughs for movie fans of every stripe. Nice to see the more ludicrous elements of retro slasher fare get the mockery they deserve.

Name : Tom Keogh / Alias : Seattle Times
Clever, creative and emotionally satisfying, "The Final Girls" is a horror-comedy and popcorn movie that keeps its original premise fresh all the way to a delightful, surprise ending.

Name : Michael Rechtshaffen / Alias : Los Angeles Times
A playful deconstruction of the slasher film that ultimately packs a surprisingly affecting punch.

Name : Dennis Harvey / Alias : Variety
Modern teens find themselves trapped in a 1980s slasher movie in this amusingly meta thriller.

Name : Barry Hertz / Alias : Globe and Mail
The Final Girls is all smiles and winks, but lacks the blood to make its horror satire pulse.

Name : Andrew Lapin / Alias : NPR
The gender commentary is still on point, and The Final Girls successfully disembowels its target trope. But it works better as film criticism than it does as a film.

Name : Justin Chang / Alias : Variety
This patchy, underwritten thriller could almost pass for a critique of any number of genre forebears in which the mere presence of a hot, ass-kicking female avenger is meant to seem subversive.

Name : Justin Lowe / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Genre enthusiasts will get a kick out of Todd Strauss-Schulson's creative homage to classic slasher movies, which respects familiar horror conventions while introducing a sly contemporary perspective.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
Todd Strauss-Schulson's meta send-up of '80s sex-equals-death slasher movies keeps its goofy good humor throughout, and tosses in a little almost-genuine feeling into the mix for good measure.

Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
As horror comedies go, this one sadly winds up somewhere between Scary Movie 4 and 5.

Name : Neil Genzlinger / Alias : New York Times
A horror comedy that proves that with the right actors you can make an amusing movie even if a lot of your ideas are borrowed.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Boston Globe
The screenplay has pages I imagine remain only half-filled. Not long after Heigl and Kutcher meet in an elevator, they share this exchange. She: "Huh-huh." He: "Huh." She: "Huuuuuh." This is the language of love for two people coming out of a coma.

Name : John Anderson / Alias : Newsday
The mismatch isn't quite of Justin Bieber-Charlize Theron proportions, but Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl play an oddly disjointed pair of lovers, partners and reluctant assassins in Killers.

Name : Rob Nelson / Alias : Variety
"Killers" has plenty to offer genre fans - provided they don't bolt during its opening scene of a tied-up woman being beaten to death with a mallet .

Name : Lisa Schwarzbaum / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Don't tell me I'm making too much out of nothing, because the steady drip-drip-drip of nothings like this are killing us all.

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
Robert Luketic's bland action comedy focuses on the uninteresting relationship between its two bland main characters, and that's the deadliest thing in sight.

Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
Kutcher and Heigl are unable to bring any warmth to what is at heart a bitter, cynical script. Just awful.

Name : Roger Moore / Alias : Orlando Sentinel
There's nobody delivering the laughs in this arid action comedy.

Name : Scott Tobias / Alias : AV Club
Killers leaves Heigl and Kutcher to bicker over issues of trust and betrayal; being in danger causes more problems in their marriage than it resolves. Killers isn't an entertainment, it's a high-speed spat.

Name : Jason Anderson / Alias : Toronto Star
It's pretty much dead in the water as soon as a shirtless Kutcher tries to play suave and utters some terrible French in his first attempt to woo his co-star.

Name : Andrew O'Hehir / Alias : Salon.com
Bungled rather than flat-out terrible.

Name : Claudia Puig / Alias : USA Today
Killers is a lifeless romantic action comedy that might as well have been concocted in a broken beaker, given the paucity of chemistry between the lead actors.

Name : Andrea Gronvall / Alias : Chicago Reader
Bob DeRosa and Ted Griffin wrote the script, whose plummeting one-liners leave no actor unscathed.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
There is a potentially rich satirical situation there, as everyone in the couple's dull planned community turn out to be undercover killers. But whatever germ of an idea there is, it's quickly killed by witless writing and migraine-inducing direction.

Name : Frank Scheck / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
The audience is the real victim.

Name : Robert Abele / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Is it some monstrosity of awfulness, as its lack of advance screening suggested? No, that would imply at least a spark of some kind. This is just an empty summer hodgepodge of stale romantic comedy exchanges, witlessness and lackluster action.

Name : Brian Miller / Alias : L.A. Weekly
If you count the number of hairstyles Katherine Heigl wears in this dreary romcom-with-guns, the tally is likely to be four or five. Ashton Kutcher's facial expressions, one.

Name : Boyd van Hoeij / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
The characters' online connection allows the filmmakers, who here move away from the slasher genre to something approaching psychological horror, to explore violence as a mindset.

Name : David Fear / Alias : Time Out New York
For someone so classically handsome, Kutcher is surprisingly anticharismatic as a star. A smarmy grin and looking good while shirtless does not equal screen presence, dude.

Name : Rob Nelson / Alias : Variety
Bullets fly and jokes land with a thud.

Name : Jeannette Catsoulis / Alias : New York Times
A brain-deadening collision of high concept and low standards.

Name : A.O. Scott / Alias : At the Movies
This should be and could be a really fun and entertaining, silly movie and it isn't.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
Haven't we seen the oh-my-gosh-my-spouse-is-secretly-an-assassin-but-you-know-a-nice-one routine once too often?

Name : Stephen Cole / Alias : Globe and Mail
Maybe filmmakers should shoot what Ashton's up to off-camera, because not many laughs are making it to the screen.

Name : Tirdad Derakhshani / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
At a certain point, it actually becomes embarrassing to watch Heigl and Kutcher play at being in love.