Cinematically, it's all over the place, [but] the best thing about this movie [is] the relationships and the characters [are taken seriously].
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12/01/08
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Twilight (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 149
Fresh: 65
Rotten:84
Average Rating: 5.3/10
Consensus: Having lost much of its bite transitioning to the big screen, Twilight will please its devoted fans, but do little for the uninitiated.
Theatrical Release: Nov 21, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $119,706,509
Synopsis: TWILIGHT is an action-packed, modern-day love story between a teenage girl and a vampire. Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) has always been a little bit different, never caring about fitting in with the trendy girls at her Phoenix high school. ... [More]
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Reviews for Twilight
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?
11/30/08
Basically Rebel Without a Cause with fangs -- except no one in it is nearly as talented as James Dean or Natalie Wood was.
11/29/08
Is there something darker: an unhealthy fascination with unwholesome relationships and bad boys, perhaps mixed with a Nightingale/Stockholm-syndrome desire to "save" them?
11/28/08
The chemistry between Stewart and Pattinson provides the proper amount of smoldering desire ...
11/28/08
Mix 150-proof Victorian romance with some HP (Harry Potter) sauce, add a dash of Munsters humour. . . . The heroine becomes obsessed with surrender and submission to a man constantly tempted to kill her. That's one sucked-up subtext.
11/27/08
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.
11/26/08
Like Bella and Edward's love, the movie offers a lot of buildup and not much resolution.
11/26/08
Hardwicke understands her teen protagonists, and rather than speak down to them (and, by extension, to the film's youthful viewers), she allows their angst-filled behavior to register as the most important thing in the world.
11/26/08
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.
11/26/08
In the final act, an undercooked thriller plot threatens to take over, but is held in check to offer a more resonant kick
11/25/08
If Lord Byron had been the love child of James Van Der Beek and Jack Elam and shopped at Hot Topic, he'd have looked a lot like Edward.
11/25/08
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.
11/25/08
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...
11/25/08
Teens will go crazy over this film about star crossed lovers trying to bridge the gap between humans and vampires
11/25/08
Twilight is not Bram Stoker's Dracula...because, ew, who'd want a hottie who weakens or combusts in sunlight when he could just, well, sparkle instead?
11/25/08
I think this film is definitely a victim of it’s own expectations.
11/24/08
Top Critic Twilight, the first movie adapted from Stephenie Meyer’s series of best-selling teen novels, is going to be a big hit with young girls, and deservedly so -- the picture delivers.
11/24/08
Top CriticLatest News for Twilight
November 30, 2008:
Box Office Guru Wrapup: Four Christmases has a lot to be thankful for this weekend
Four Chritmases had a sensational Thanksgiving weekend in the number one spot. Bolt picked up the pace while the sun started to set on Twilight. More...
November 23, 2008:
The genre has certainly come a long way since I Was a Teenage Werewolf. 
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November 23, 2008:
Box Office Guru Wrapup: Twilight Soars to $70M+ Opening
This weekend the vampire love story Twilight stunned the film industry with an explosive opening leading the overall marketplace to one of the biggest November weekends in box... More...
November 23, 2008:
While not exactly the sexually suggestive The Man Who Came For Dinner, Twilight zones out on conjuring a defiant inter-species dating fantasy in the Obama era, that might be termed Close Encounters Of The Thirst Kind.
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