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(1 - 44) of 44 OFCS Rating: 25% Rotten Page   1   "Should you choose to see this brooding narrative, don't be surprised if it feels like something's missing. Ironically, what 'Twilight' lacks most is bite."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   A. J. Hakari "With its fascinating combination of forbidden love and a seductive vampire theme, 'Twilight" may be the beginning of a very successful film franchise."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker 1.5/5 "one of 2008's most crass commercial statements."   Filmcritic.com   Bill Gibron D "However deafening the hype, I found Twilight to be a rotten movie, yet the blame for the failure of this tween sleeping pill doesn't completely point toward Meyer's imagination, but Hardwicke's thundering screen cluelessness instead."   DVDTalk.com   Brian Orndorf 4/10 "Fantasy rules in Twilight, fantasy simultaneously delicate and ravishing, chaste and utterly bloody."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2/5 "The film progresses in a manner that's more comatose than undead."   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger B- "Put simply, it lacks fangs."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher B- "A gentle, sincere and appealing vampire film."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2/4 "Holds an archaic, pre-feminist mentality far more disturbing than any of its tame horror elements can boast."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman 1/5 "Una película mediocre para una novela mediocre."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio B- "Those willing to consider a vampire-based teen romance should find this one suitable, if not everything they dreamed it would be."   Cinematical   Eric D. Snider C "These aren't vampires. These are fairies."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 1.5/4 "I was bored out of my brain and not even the appeal of Kristen Stewart could sway me the 90210 Degrassi could keep me from a movie that felt only partly developed..."   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr. "Suggests Anne Rice slumming for a WB special"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce 2/4 "Twilight sparkles for its intended audience of indiscriminate adolescent females. However, it will only be deemed as a softened, hackneyed horror show of synthetic affection for the rest of us."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng D "So bad that you might expect it's intended as a campy send-up of its source...the worst-case scenario is that it's a truly faithful reflection of the quality of the novel."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/5 "A tantalizing movie about being swept away by fervent desire, ecstatic love, and an aching of the heart in the presence of a beloved."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat C+ "A sequel there will be, not only because Twilight made a gazillion dollars on a meager budget but because these are Vampire Times."   Cinepinion   Henry Stewart 2.5/4 "If its muscles are flexed, we can expect three more of these movies. Hopefully, like the Harry Potter films, they'll get better as they go along."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 5/10 "For a piece about forbidden lust/love, it's not very tortured."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen "Parental Content Review"   Screen It!   Jim Judy 1.5/5 "The actors are the exact opposite of what they should be: two teens in heat."   School Library Journal   Kent Turner 2.5/4.0 "While better than what is shown in the previews, was this really supposed to look like the pilot for an upcoming show on The CW network?"   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 1.5/5 "Too much angst and not enough monsters. In short, I like a bit more vampire in my vampire stories."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr 2.5/5 "Stewart is a fine, talented actress, and she ups the ante considerably here; her strong performance makes of Twilight a far better film than it would have been with a lesser actress in the part."   Movie City News   Kim Voynar "Unlike the "Harry Potter" series...the "Twilight" series appears to be in capable hands right off the bat."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "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."   Miss FlickChick   Maitland McDonagh "It's like an actual grownup movie, all serious and important. Like you can tell how beautiful the vampires are supposed to be because everything gets slow and sparkly when they walk by -- and I mean even when they're not in sunlight LOL!"   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2/4 "Hardwicke runs into trouble when it comes to actual business of the undead."   TheMovieReport.com   Michael Dequina 2.5/4 "It's a well-made but thematically flawed film based on a book that was ingenious in conceit but generically written. The strengths of one are the flaws of the other, and vice versa."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B+ "Part of the appeal of the story is an almost-Victorian sense of repression, sacrifice, and longing, so sincerely depicted it just might single-handedly bring back the swoon."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow 1.5/4 "Your move, Anne Rice!"   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 2/5 "Ao que parece, Bella nunca ouviu falar de Betty Friedan ou mesmo de Simone de Beauvoir. Mas, pensando bem, talvez isto seja apropriado, já que as adolescentes que gritam histericamente ao ver Robert Pattison também não."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 1.5/5 "It would appear that in addition to robbing his brood of their need for blood, Carlisle also removed their balls."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 1/5 "I can only hope that this precious tome has been unmercifully butchered in its trip from the page to the screen because if it actually is faithful, then what that says about the collective taste of its rabid fan base is too depressing to contemplate"   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 3.5/5 "In the final act, an undercooked thriller plot threatens to take over, but is held in check to offer a more resonant kick"   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 4/5 "Twilight is mostly elegantly put together, though anything having to do with the pack of bad vampires is disastrous..."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves D "Supporters may argue that future installments bring more depth, but soup this thin rarely improves with age."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux C "As lovers, these two are not convincing. They don't produce enough of a spark to set off gasoline vapor."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten "Within ten years or so, this film (and its inevitable sequels) will look as outdated and ridiculous as the old Beach Party movies, but that shouldn't stop us from sitting back and enjoying the camp with a quiet chuckle."   Cinefantastique   Steve Biodrowski C "Is there something darker: an unhealthy fascination with unwholesome relationships and bad boys, perhaps mixed with a Nightingale/Stockholm-syndrome desire to "save" them?"   Decent Films Guide   Steven D. Greydanus 6/10 "Youth-targeted, seductively supernatural and unevenly paced - with all the big-buzz blood lust, the shiver may seem a trifle anemic."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 4/10 "The film adaptation of Twilight isn't nearly as bad in its own medium as the source material was, though it's still quite a chore to endure."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 2/5 "Is it worth seeing? Is it any good? Does it matter what's written or said? The answer is no to all, but it certainly leaves room for improvement."   BlackFilm.com   Wilson Morales  (1 - 44) of 44 OFCS Rating: 25% Rotten Page   1