It's hard not to get sucked in--if one can get past the sometimes hokey, melodramatic teenage dialogue.
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08/30/09
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Twilight (2008)
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Reviews Counted:193
Fresh:95
Rotten:98
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: Having lost much of its bite transitioning to the big screen, Twilight will please its devoted fans, but do little for the uninitiated.
Theatrical Release:Nov 21, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $191,449,475
Synopsis: Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) has always been a little bit different, never caring about fitting in with the trendy girls at her Phoenix high school. When her mother re-marries and sends Bella to... [More]
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
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Reviews for Twilight
Suggests Anne Rice slumming for a WB special
08/26/09
For a piece about forbidden lust/love, it's not very tortured.
08/22/09
So this is what all the fuss is about?
05/15/09
The genre has certainly come a long way from I Was a Teenage Werewolf.
03/19/09
A densely erotic, twisted take on teen screen romance and underage rebel lust. And while not exactly the sexually suggestive The Man Who Came For Dinner, Twilight zones out on a defiant inter-species dating fantasy, Close Encounters Of The Thirst Kind.
03/14/09
Twilight is pure fantasy, emphasis on the pure... it's a soft-focus reverie for girls who want to be Disney princesses and have their bad boys, too, as long as the bad boys are models of tormented self-restraint.
03/01/09
As lovers, these two are not convincing. They don't produce enough of a spark to set off gasoline vapor.
02/12/09
Una película mediocre para una novela mediocre.
01/14/09
Bella, a fairly unlikable young woman with a glum expression, has "put a smell" on Edward, a ruby red-lipped Nosferatu. It's a tedious stare-down. Bring a thermos of espresso. And an alarm clock.
01/10/09
I'm glad it wasn't that bad.
01/06/09
Twilight is a must see and a must for a sequel. Can anyone say New Moon 2010?
01/04/09
Hardwicke runs into trouble when it comes to actual business of the undead.
12/28/08
Dumbest vampire movie...ever.
12/27/08
Vampires and romance are nothing new, but Twilight gives them enough of a twist to make it interesting and the film delivers enough on that twist to make it far better than its outlying plot makes it sound.
12/20/08
I watched Twilight in a cinema full of young girls who, when they weren't texting friends and guzzling soft drinks, giggled, sighed and exhaled with a passion that was not only endearing, but a measure of its emotional truth.
12/19/08
A sometimes girlie swirl of obsession that will delight fans, this faithful adaptation is after teenage blood, and will most likely hit a box office artery.
12/19/08
If you're a fan of the book, I'm so sorry.
12/19/08
In a film of this kind a great deal depends on the chemistry between the lead actors, and here Twilight falls especially short.
12/19/08
It's actually very well done, isn't it?
12/19/08
Latest News for Twilight
October 30, 2009:
Twilight Returning to Theaters Nov. 19 
On November 19, one day before Summit releases "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," more than 2,000 theaters will host a special one-day run of "Twilight." More...
September 23, 2009:
Stephenie Meyer's The Host Heading to Theaters
"Twilight" author Stephenie Meyer's first "adult" novel, "The Host," will get the feature film treatment courtesy of Andrew Niccol, who has agreed to write and direct. More...
August 21, 2009:
Hardwicke Helming The Girl with the Red Riding Hood
"Twilight" director Catherine Hardwicke has signed on to direct "The Girl with the Red Riding Hood," the "gothic retelling" of the fable in the works at Warner Bros. More...
August 10, 2009:
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