Name : Molly Eichel / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
Goosebumps fulfills its purpose, and that's what matters.

Name : Inkoo Kang / Alias : TheWrap
Goofily self-aware and wholesomely boisterous, it's a children's picture whose sense of spooky fun readily diverts from its quibble-worthy messaging.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
The film goes too wide and gets a little soft at the end, but not fatally so. It's the rare horror film - well, sort of horror - that you and your children can enjoy together.

Name : Geoff Berkshire / Alias : Variety
Turns an endearing collection of silly spooky stories into a busy, noisy, soulless eyesore.

Name : Tom Russo / Alias : Boston Globe
It's the best treat we've gotten this Halloween, and definitely not just a bigger-budgeted version of the "Goosebumps" seen on TV.

Name : Kevin P. Sullivan / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
It's a never-boring trip to a world, where stories and imagination are powerful tools, that just might inspire kids to do the scariest thing of all: pick up a book.

Name : Kate Taylor / Alias : Globe and Mail
It gently mocks the traditions of the genre - giant preying mantis rips roof off high school - while never getting too frightening.

Name : Nicolas Rapold / Alias : New York Times
"Goosebumps" would seem to yield the serial pleasures a voracious Stineophile might desire.

Name : Bruce Kirkland / Alias : Toronto Sun
This Goosebumps ride may be bumpy, but it works and it is worthwhile.

Name : A.A. Dowd / Alias : AV Club
As effects-heavy time-wasters go, Goosebumps is mostly harmless, even sporadically amusing. But it isn't likely to keep anyone up at night, out of fear or excitement.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
At a guess, I'd say that Goosebumps will satisfy its core audience - fans of R.L. Stine's popular children's books - and bore pretty much everyone else.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
A special-effects extravaganza that skips over basics like coming up with an interesting origination myth for the creepy creatures who bring havoc to a sleepy suburb.

Name : Linda Barnard / Alias : Toronto Star
Jillian Bell's brief scenes as Zach's Bedazzling-obsessed singleton aunt are fun. So is Darren Lemke's solid script, which leans heavily on groaners and bad jokes to balance scares.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
The pace is great, with the last hour being an all-out monster attack, as all of Stine's creatures - a werewolf, zombies, a mummy, murderous garden trolls and a particularly sarcastic ventriloquist's dummy - go on the rampage.

Name : Alan Scherstuhl / Alias : Village Voice
The filmmakers, to their great credit, spend more than half the running time bending their studio tentpole release to the spirit of Stine rather than cramming Goosebumps into their template.

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
It's a cheerful, nasty delight.

Name : Adam Graham / Alias : Detroit News
Goosebumps isn't detached or ironic, nor does it pretend to be something it's not. It's a bonus for fans who pored over the books and it celebrates the fun side of things going bump in the night.

Name : Glenn Whipp / Alias : Los Angeles Times
I have no idea as to the extent of the actual Stine's peculiarities, but just going from his weird, wonderful work, every scene in the movie feels authentic compared with the version I carry of him in my head.

Name : Stephanie Merry / Alias : Washington Post
The production values are better suited for a television movie, and the music, by Danny Elfman, is distractingly intrusive.

Name : Bill Zwecker / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
Black gets to show us his ability to play nasty, distant and angry - all in a way we really have never seen from him before. The bottom line is: It works perfectly.

Name : Peter Hartlaub / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
Happily, the filmmakers build a reservoir of goodwill in the first hour.

Name : Michael Rechtshaffen / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
An amusing, fearlessly over-the-top screen rendering of the book franchise.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
Jack Black fires up a stampede of comic terrors ready made for Halloween. Sure it's exhausting. But Goosebumps, knowing its audience, lets it rip.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
A tongue-in-cheek love note to spook stories of yesteryear, "Goosebumps" is a kid-friendly crowd pleaser adults can love, too.

Name : Britton Peele / Alias : Dallas Morning News
Goosebumps is chock full of fun moments whether they're all logical or not, and it's an adventure that should appeal to both young viewers new the series and older readers who devoured them as kids.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
A comedown from the high of "Fast Five," but the physics-be-damned stuntwork and girl-on-girl beatdowns keep this series the guiltiest of pleasures.

Name : Bruce Demara / Alias : Toronto Star
It pretty much goes without saying that the script by Chris Morgan, who penned most of the previous installments, is achingly stupid and beyond ludicrous.

Name : Cary Darling / Alias : Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
If Fast & Furious 6 were any dumber, the script would have been written in crayon . [But] in terms of sheer action adrenaline, it may be the best film of the franchise.

Name : David Hiltbrand / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
The plot and dialogue are still stilted and stupid, but that only proves that Justin Lin, who has directed the last four F & Fs, has his priorities straight.

Name : Neil Genzlinger / Alias : New York Times
A satisfying thrill ride, at least on a par with the earlier installments.

Name : Lisa Kennedy / Alias : Denver Post
Some of the action sequences are insane. No, really. Absurd, impossible, physics defying, triage-required stuff. No matter. That's the foolish rush of a franchise that must go faster and faster and furiouser and furiouser.

Name : Adam Nayman / Alias : Globe and Mail
That the movie is so indifferently written shouldn't really be a surprise. The dialogue is just there to mark time between the set pieces, and it's nice to report that Lin has outdone himself in that department.

Name : Lou Lumenick / Alias : New York Post
For my money, "Furious 6'' is more fun than "Skyfall''' and a lot more fun than the deadly dull "Star Trek Into Darkness,'' both of which ask you to take their silly plots way too seriously.

Name : Christopher Borrelli / Alias : Chicago Tribune
Sustains its joyful, unpretentious ridiculousness so perfectly that I secretly hoped the "6" meant "hours long".

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
Let's just cut to another car chase, OK? That's what this franchise knows how to do, and if that's the kind of popcorn fun you're looking for, "F&F 6" has the goods.

Name : Tom Russo / Alias : Boston Globe
For their own part, Vin Diesel and the "F&F" handlers seem eager to assert how they've molded a series of installments into, yep, a saga, complete with expansive, twisty continuity.

Name : Joe Williams / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
How you feel about "Fast & Furious 6" is a matter of perspective.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
It's dumb fun - nothing more, nothing less.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Lin and his team do an extraordinary job of staging the ever-escalating action sequences, up to a jaw-on-the-floor finale involving various four-wheel vehicles in and around a cargo plane that's trying to take off.

Name : Ian Buckwalter / Alias : The Atlantic
Furious Six continues on in the same vein as its predecessor, and may just be my favorite of the lot.

Name : Betsy Sharkey / Alias : Los Angeles Times
True, the movie doesn't know when or how to put the brakes on. It does, however, understand precisely what it is.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
Nothing classic here, except the vehicles. But if you're looking for revved-up cars, trucks, tanks and tunnel racing, F&F6 is King Kong on wheels.

Name : Scott Tobias / Alias : NPR
[The action is] glorious while it lasts, but then the film goes back to figuring out how to keep its oversized vessel from taking on water. And that's more hard work than it's worth.

Name : Richard Corliss / Alias : TIME Magazine
Furious 6 is even cooler and more aerodynamically delirious than its predecessor, if such a thing is even theoretically possible.

Name : Scott Foundas / Alias : Variety
Faithful fans and passersby alike should be more than pleased by this superior piece of classical action craftsmanship.

Name : Claudia Puig / Alias : USA Today
Here's a movie that could easily have been dialogue-free. And probably would have been better for it.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : Hearst Newspapers
Sometimes Fast & Furious 6 is engrossing, sometimes absurd, and some of the action is so outlandish it makes the audience laugh. But whatever it is, it's always some variety of fun.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Richard Roeper.com
'Fast and Furious 6' is the fastest, funniest and most outlandishly entertaining chapter yet. I'm not kidding, I kinda loved this insanely stupid movie.

Name : Laremy Legel / Alias : Film.com
Has something for everyone, so long as everyone wants their action supercharged.

Name : Jocelyn Noveck / Alias : Associated Press
Happily, amid all the noise, the races - there's a terrific one through the streets of downtown London - the crashes and the outlandish stunts, there is some humor, and it's very welcome.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
The whole thing becomes no different than a six-year-old knocking his toys together and making noises.

Name : Alan Scherstuhl / Alias : Village Voice
Everyone involved at last seems to understand that the mode here is comic. Previous entries suffered from self-important glumness that gummed up the fun whenever the cars weren't racing.

Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
A borderline ridiculous, over-the-top demolition derby that also happens to be a perfectly constructed low-IQ blast.

Name : Derek Adams / Alias : Time Out
With its puerile dialogue, daft performances, flat comic repartee and ear-rupturingly loud sound levels, the experience of watching 'Fast & Furious 6' is like listening to death metal pour out of 500-watt speakers while being strapped to a pneumatic drill.

Name : Drew Hunt / Alias : Chicago Reader
[Director Justin Lin] manages to imbue the material with Hawksian notions of masculinity, group dynamics, and moral authority even as he preserves the franchise's multicultural milieu and gleefully exaggerated action sequences.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
Exists purely to showcase how idiotically over-the-top action sequences can become when annoyances like gravity are tossed to the side.

Name : Tom Charity / Alias : CNN.com
Ludicrous, but undeniably fun and surprisingly affectionate, this is really all you could ask of a car crash movie, and more.

Name : Randy Cordova / Alias : Arizona Republic
Perhaps the most annoying thing about the movie: The final scene sets up yet another sequel.

Name : Jen Chaney / Alias : Washington Post
Fast & Furious 6 is much like the other Fast & Furious films. Which is to say it does its thing pretty well.

Name : Anthony Lane / Alias : New Yorker
Just as the plot threatens to run out of gas, Lin rescues the film with a spate of vastly ridiculous and therefore enjoyable set-pieces, most of which involve means of conveyance designed to make the cars look puny.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
It's a ripsnorting carmageddon that stylizes automotive annihilation the way John Woo used to choreograph death and destruction with guns and explosions.

Name : Elizabeth Weitzman / Alias : New York Daily News
Lin understands this track inside and out, backwards and forwards - four directions out of countless others in which he spins us.

Name : Tom Long / Alias : Detroit News
There's a Road Runneresque sense of madness that's undeniably infectious. If only it was played off characters who had some sense of reality, who weren't such obvious constructions, and who spoke fewer leaden lines.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
This new entry will only add mightily to the good fortunes of Universal's biggest franchise; no matter how silly and outlandish the action gets - and it does become ridiculous - it also delivers the goods its audience expects.

Name : Joshua Rothkopf / Alias : Time Out New York
Most of the stunts are digital and the pleasures are video-game-stupid.