section_path: Reception/Critical response
section_name: Critical response
paragraph_text: Critical response
  
  The film became the best-reviewed installment in the franchise. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 92% of 210 critics' reviews are positive. The website's consensus reads: "Adding some surprising emotional layers onto the ghoulish bones of Final Destination ' s mythology, Bloodlines ingeniously executes grisly set pieces with precision and turns impending doom into outrageous fun." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 73 out of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of B+ on an A+ to F scale, while those surveyed by PostTrak gave it an average four out of five stars, with 69% saying they would definitely recommend the film.
  
  Todd Gilchrist of Variety called the film "clever, unpredictable and fun" and praised Todd's performance as "a tender tribute to the horror luminary and retroactive connective tissue between the franchise's disparate chapters". Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the film "gives its audiences exactly what they expect. Namely, a series of ingeniously designed, diabolical Rube Goldberg -style fatalities that are mostly so within the realm of possibility that you'll find yourself crossing the street very carefully after you leave the theater". He also praised Todd's appearance as "a poignant reminder that in real life, as in these movies, death comes for everybody".
  
  The film became the best-reviewed installment in the franchise. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 92% of 210 critics' reviews are positive. The website's consensus reads: "Adding some surprising emotional layers onto the ghoulish bones of Final Destination ' s mythology, Bloodlines ingeniously executes grisly set pieces with precision and turns impending doom into outrageous fun." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 73 out of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of B+ on an A+ to F scale, while those surveyed by PostTrak gave it an average four out of five stars, with 69% saying they would definitely recommend the film.
  
  Todd Gilchrist of Variety called the film "clever, unpredictable and fun" and praised Todd's performance as "a tender tribute to the horror luminary and retroactive connective tissue between the franchise's disparate chapters". Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the film "gives its audiences exactly what they expect. Namely, a series of ingeniously designed, diabolical Rube Goldberg -style fatalities that are mostly so within the realm of possibility that you'll find yourself crossing the street very carefully after you leave the theater". He also praised Todd's appearance as "a poignant reminder that in real life, as in these movies, death comes for everybody".