Scream 7 review: A humorless lowpoint for the iconic franchise

So it feels like a failure of Mindy’s character that she doesn’t recognize Scream 7 performing a similar scramble as it sweats to bring back Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell). Sidney was the heroine of the first three movies, but more of a looming supporting player in the fourth and fifth — before a pay dispute kept her out of the sixth entirely. (The closest Mindy comes to any sort of clever observation is a quickly abandoned reference to “nostalgia.”)