Name : Tirdad Derakhshani / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
A horror pic with a new gimmick that likely will spawn an entire subgenre of more substandard rubbish.

Name : Claudia Puig / Alias : USA Today
Fresh and fearsome fun.

Name : Robert Abele / Alias : Los Angeles Times
As a harangue about cyberbullying, it's purely exploitative, but when "Unfriended" zeros in on the whiplash mixture of freedom and torment we get from multitasking our online lives? It's srsly fun, imo.

Name : Adam Graham / Alias : Detroit News
If it has a point about the way we treat people online, it's lost in an illogical ghost story that never bothers explaining itself.

Name : Peter Keough / Alias : Boston Globe
You might want to take along your smartphone to keep yourself entertained.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
Give this movie credit for trying something new - and flat-out committing to it. But just because no one's tried an idea before doesn't mean it's a great one.

Name : Brad Wheeler / Alias : Globe and Mail
If death invented the telephone, it probably invented the Internet infernal, too. Disconnect? The scariest thing is that we can't.

Name : A.A. Dowd / Alias : AV Club
The filmmakers here completely commit to their gimmick, turning its limitations into benefits and exploiting the chosen technology for maximum effect. In the process, they hit the refresh button on the entire found-footage format.

Name : Michael Ordona / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
The inevitable meltdowns feel unearned because of predictable, yet unmotivated, character turns. There's no one to root for, not even the dead girl. Nothing seems important enough.

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
I kept hoping a power outage would hit their neighborhood, or some sort of natural disaster. Aren't the movies supposed to be a break from being online all the time?

Name : Joshua Rothkopf / Alias : Time Out
Even though Unfriended begins to cheat, springing loud noises and gory cutaways that can't be explained, there's a rigor to its dopey, blood-simple conception that you might smile at.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
I'll admit the film held my attention but I left the theater unsatisfied, which I think will be a common reaction among those not within the demographic niche for which the production was mounted.

Name : John DeFore / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
In the end one would rather be back at one's own computer, tending to the tedious details of digital life, than watching this clique get pinged to death.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
It's a mean, potent little movie.

Name : Hazel Cills / Alias : Grantland
It's not the B-movie gore death scenes that make Unfriended squirm-inducing, it's how it taps in and holds on tight to how annoying the Internet and computers can be, especially when they're being tinkered with.

Name : Ben Sachs / Alias : Chicago Reader
You might find yourself rooting for the murderer.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : ChristyLemire.com
If you can give yourself over to the idea of Unfriended,you'll find it's surprisingly engrossing and really quite clever.

Name : Peter Debruge / Alias : Variety
Simultaneously clever and exasperating.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Grantland
You feel some mild critique of lives lived through web applications. What you don't feel is sustained visceral fright.

Name : Andrew Lapin / Alias : NPR
The efficient exposition is entirely composed of a LiveLeak video and half a YouTube clip. It's supremely goofy and not scary in the slightest, but the movie is speaking the right language.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
It's basically Friday the 13th on a laptop, but the gimmick works like gangbusters. One request: Please Hollywood cybergods, no sequels.

Name : Ann Hornaday / Alias : Washington Post
At times, "Unfriended" really clicks - but ultimately, it's a drag.

Name : Bruce Demara / Alias : Toronto Star
Younger audiences in particular are likely to enjoy this entertaining and fast-paced chiller. And who knows? They may even absorb the film's underlying message .

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
A movie to be seen, if you can endure it-as a shrewd commercial venture, as an online opus that undoes your self-composure and, last and foremost, as a window on a mode of thinking that equates to a state of being.

Name : Lou Lumenick / Alias : New York Post
"Unfriended" starts wearing out its welcome about 10 minutes before the end. But it's clever enough about social media to keep an audience engaged until then .

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Neither as silly as it might look nor as terrifying as its "Titus Andronicus"-via-Mark-Zuckerberg set-up promises, it takes a high-concept yet bare-bones premise and milks it for all the jolts it can.

Name : Alan Scherstuhl / Alias : Village Voice
Unfriended is the one movie from 2015 you'll always be able to look back at and feel something of what life was like back when, even if you're not a cyberbullying white teen.

Name : Manohla Dargis / Alias : New York Times
The best thing about "Unfriended," beyond its funny-nasty title, is that it doesn't play as remotely dull as it sounds even if most of the drama takes place inside shifting, overlapping windows.

Name : Jacob Hall / Alias : New York Daily News
Although directed with technical finesse by newcomer Levan Gabriadze, "Unfriended" starts shrill and only gets louder as it goes along.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
It's interesting to wonder how the film will age, given the short shelf life of technology. In two years all this might seem as dated as a dial-up modem, technology not nearly advanced enough to support the action here.

Name : Clark Collis / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Though not particularly ground-breaking-last year's Elijah Wood-starring Open Windows pulled the same trick, and much more ambitiously-we're still going to "like" the result.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
Perhaps director Gabriadze and writer Nelson Greaves intended to create a Social Media "Scream" and a commentary on cyber-bullying, but "Unfriended" comes across as disdainful of millennials.