Twilight Reviews
Georgia Straight
Unless you're a 14-year-old girl who gets all giddy at the thought of cute boys and first love, steer clear of Thirteen director Catherine Hardwicke's anemic adaptation.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Lyles' Movie Files
Yes, it's strongly geared to the teen audience, but don't hold it against the filmmakers and go in with any preconceived notions and you'll find it a fun opening chapter of a new franchise.
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| Original Score: 6.5/10
Flix Capacitor
Even though some will find the whole thing far too tortured and po-faced, Twilight isn't completely without merit.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Digital Spy
It's not the stunts and derring-do which excite the senses as much as the quiet chemistry between Stewart and Pattinson; that is guaranteed to get your blood up.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Top CriticMy hope is that the sequels are actual attempts at movies. The world doesn't need any more toothless cinema.
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| Original Score: C-
A deeply sincere, outright goofy vampire romance for the hot-not-to-trot abstinence set.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Austin Chronicle
I've had mosquito bites that were more passionate than this undead, unrequited, and altogether unfun pseudo-romantic riff on Romeo and Juliet.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Movies.com
Its built-in fanbase (thanks to the best-selling novel) is ready to swoon. I'm not one of those swooners but even I had a great time indulging in the earnest urgency.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
ComingSoon.net
Twilight really does have an infatuation with surface beauty, especially where the vampires are concerned. In fact they sum up the film pretty well. It's a façade, an appealing one to people who share the right appetites, but that's all.
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| Original Score: 6/10
WBAI Radio
Cinema.com: A densely erotic, twisted take on teen screen romance, Twilight zones out beneath the crushing weight of underage lust intensified and complicated by the excruciating abstention here of unorthodox vampire appetites.
Reel Film Reviews
...the film has been infused with a deliberate pace that proves instrumental in establishing (and perpetuating) the source material's very specific atmosphere.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Florida Times-Union
Romantic, smart, likable and often quite funny, without any tacked-on snarkiness or desperate hipness.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
eFilmCritic.com
Twilight is mostly elegantly put together, though anything having to do with the pack of bad vampires is disastrous...
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| Original Score: 4/5
Washington Times
It's hard not to get sucked in--if one can get past the sometimes hokey, melodramatic teenage dialogue.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Window to the Movies
For a piece about forbidden lust/love, it's not very tortured.
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| Original Score: 5/10
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)
So this is what all the fuss is about?
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| Original Score: 2/4
NewsBlaze
The genre has certainly come a long way from I Was a Teenage Werewolf.
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| Original Score: 4/4
NewsBlaze
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.
Miss FlickChick
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.
