I Know What You Did Last Summer Critic Reviews

A polished genre piece with superior fright elements. Read the full review

Another Kevin Williamson triumph, a smart, sharply drawn genre film with a moral center and a solid cast of young actors to hold it.Read the full review

The story has more holes than the bodies do, but the shocks are efficient, and Party of Five's Jennifer Love Hewitt knows how to scream with soul. Read the full review

The characters are never really more than stereotypes (the brain, the beauty, the dreamer, the jock), but as the body count begins to mount, you feel their terror build. Read the full review

Predictably, the derivative title here is a jumping-off point for another derivative slasher-revenge pic. [17 October 1997, p.5D]Read the full review

Competent but uninspired thriller. Read the full review

It has an interesting subtext. I'm referring to the way the lives and friendships of these four individuals crumble in the wake of their accident.Read the full review

Though it flies in the face of credibility and becomes downright silly by its end, I Know What You Did Last Summer knows its way around the rules of the popular horror-film genre.Read the full review