Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 Reviews
eFilmCritic.com
As a movie, this isn't terrible; none of them have been, really. Each film has gotten a director who has tried to do something simple and honest with Meyer's tormented material.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Top CriticThis penultimate "Twilight" film is the best in the series so far. It's languorous, romantic, moody, and, in the end, horrifying.
Illinois Times
Dawnfinally gives viewers something to sink their teeth into.
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| Original Score: 3.0/4.0
jackiekcooper.com
They have saved the best for last. This movie is totally romantic and its three leads are at their best. This will delight 'Twilight' fans and bring in new converts.
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| Original Score: 7/11
Entertainment Spectrum
The storyline reached a new depth and is everything every fan will desire.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
The most engaging Twilight movie yet.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Color us stoked that a Twilight movie even strays into evil-fetus territory.
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| Original Score: 3/5
The last twenty minutes of Breaking Dawn are so harrowing that it's possible to forget that most of the acting is soap-operatic (the guy who plays Carlisle is aging to look like Liberace) and the dialogue from hunger.
Scotsman
In director Bill Condon's skilled hands, this instalment proves more intimate, confining its action to kids in rooms wrestling with the consequences of their own crushes.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Eclipse Magazine
Can someone please, for the love of god, tell me why everyone falls in love with this woman? What does she do? What are her hopes and dreams for the future? Can't stand Bella. When she and Edward are not on camera, I like the movie well enough.
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| Original Score: B-
Reel Film Reviews
...as far as shameless cash-grabs go, Breaking Dawn: Part 1 is far easier to stomach than certain other franchise-extending installments (eg the Star Wars prequels).
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| Original Score: 3/4
Urban Cinefile
The earth moves for Bella and Edward moves heaven and earth to save her...fans will be satisfied by the romantic nature of things, although the scale narrows with considerably less bite from the vampires and a shortage of werewolves' snarls
Birmingham Mail
I do wonder if seeing Bella turn into a near anorexic with a face that's bordering on Gollum might have subliminal implications for some vulnerable teenage girls.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Little White Lies
Darker, sexier, sharper - a neat next step.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Entertainment Spectrum
The fourth book is so expansive that the filmmakers made the right call in splitting it into two parts. Stewart, Pattinson & Lautner have come to be genuine embodiments of the three major characters. The pacing is spot on with a...
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| Original Score: 3/4
EricDSnider.com
I'm curious to find out what happens next, if only to see if it's as bafflingly weird as Part 1 suggests.
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| Original Score: B-
Shadows on the Wall
A surprisingly entertaining romp.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
BlackFilm.com
If there was ever a franchise that plays like a TV soap opera with a climatic ending that leaves the audience wanting more, it's this one. If you have seen the previous three films, then you go into 'Breaking Dawn - P1,' already hooked in from the start.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
There are a few reasons The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 1 is probably the best of the Twilight films.
Common Sense Media
Sexy honeymoon, disturbing pregnancy dominate latest movie.
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| Original Score: 3/5
