Interview with the Vampire Reviews
Reel Film Reviews
...the movie's aggressively overlong running time often does threaten to negate its positive attributes...
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Common Sense Media
Entertaining but gruesomely gory vampire tale.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Three Movie Buffs
Beautiful to look at and dripping with atmosphere
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Top CriticIt's about seduction, and either you succumb to its inky entrapments or you resist. When its mojo was working, I was happy to be had.
TV Guide's Movie Guide
Holds plenty of interest, even for those who find Anne Rice's gothic cult novels unreadable.
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| Original Score: 3/4
eFilmCritic.com
Jordan is a master of poetic, deceptive atmosphere.
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| Original Score: 5/5
EmanuelLevy.Com
Anne Rice was right the first time around when she criticized Tom Cruise's casting in public, and Brad Pitt is not great either but like every Jordan's film, this problematic adaptation has some merits such as child actress Dunst and some arresting images
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| Original Score: C+
Combustible Celluloid
Given that this is basically a Reader's Digest condensed version, the movie does a pretty good sweep job.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Interview with the Vampire promises a constantly surprising vampire story, and it keeps that promise.
Palo Alto Weekly
It's an intensely dark tale -- the cinematography, the tone, the dialogue -- but for those who enjoy dark humor, Jordan has brilliantly inserted a few divine moments of comic relief.
| Original Score: 4/4
Kalamazoo Gazette
Not what it could have been, but memorably moody
| Original Score: 3/5
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
As a vampire picture -- pure and simple -- it's in a class by itself in both scope and stylishness.
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| Original Score: 4/5
