Twilight Reviews

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 6.5/10

Even though some will find the whole thing far too tortured and po-faced, Twilight isn't completely without merit.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

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.

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...the film has been infused with a deliberate pace that proves instrumental in establishing (and perpetuating) the source material's very specific atmosphere.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Romantic, smart, likable and often quite funny, without any tacked-on snarkiness or desperate hipness.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

Twilight is mostly elegantly put together, though anything having to do with the pack of bad vampires is disastrous...

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

It's hard not to get sucked in--if one can get past the sometimes hokey, melodramatic teenage dialogue.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

The genre has certainly come a long way from I Was a Teenage Werewolf.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

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.

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I'm glad it wasn't that bad.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

Twilight is a must see and a must for a sequel. Can anyone say New Moon 2010?

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

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.

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.

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

It's actually very well done, isn't it?

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Some will find it all too polite, but compared to rival blockbuster exercises in explosive CGI mayhem, its character-based index of longing and protectiveness at least provides a viable alternative moodscape.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/6

Not quite the solid grounding a major new franchise needs, but a stylish and enjoyable supernatural emo romance.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

The two hormonal teenagers sizzle like sausages in a frying pan. The supernatural stunts don't disappoint. Neither does the deadpan wit.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

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