Looking good but lacking much in the way of personality or gray matter.
– Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
5 Feb 2001
rotten:
Valentine isn't scary, but it is unsettling; not ultimately satisfying, but arresting in the moment.
– Mick LaSalle,
San Francisco Chronicle,
7 Feb 2001
fresh:
I had fun anyway.
– Andrew O'Hehir,
Salon.com,
13 Feb 2001
rotten:
In the new teen slasher flick Valentine, a public-school nerd, now grown up, seeks to systematically murder all the girls who wouldn't dance with him at the Grade 6 Valentine's dance. Or maybe that's not what happens. It is hard to tell.
– Liam Lacey,
Globe and Mail,
25 Apr 2003
rotten:
The contradictory sexual politics in this lightweight slasher suggest that at some point it was meant to satirize the traditional mores of the self-satisfied female characters.