| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
C+ |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Boston Globe
Ty Burr |
"Desire and fantasy fly from the page to the screen with delight..." more... |
B |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"...will mesmerize its target audience, 16-year-old girls and their grandmothers." more... |
B- |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips |
"It is faithful to its source material, which will likely please the fan base." more... |
B- |
E! Online
Jen Cady |
"...teen fangirls will unconditionally and irrevocably love this movie." more... |
B |
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman |
"...(director) Hardwicke stirs this teen pulp to a pleasing simmer." more... |
B |
Filmcritic.com
Bill Gibron |
"Twilight is a preposterously preprogrammed snoozer that preaches to the fan fiction choir already predisposed to this dross." more... |
D+ |
Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt |
"An underwhelming vampire romance long on camp but short on emotional insight." more... |
C |
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan |
"All the story's inherent silliness aside, it is intent on conveying the magic of meeting that one special person you've been waiting for." more... |
B |
New York Post
Kyle Smith |
"Vampire fantasy lacks blood." more... |
C |
New York Times
Manohla Dargis |
"...a deeply sincere, outright goofy vampire romance for the hot-not-to-trot abstinence set." more... |
C- |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"Twilight isn't an especially good movie, but neither is it an abomination." more... |
B- |
Rolling Stone
Catherine Hardwicke |
"The love story has teeth." more... |
C+ |
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub |
"...entertaining..." more... |
B |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Travis Nichols |
"Film merely offers some star power in Robert Pattinson." more... |
C |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"...unintentionally funny and quickly forgettable..." more... |
C |
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