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Twilight
Summit Entertainment
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for some violence and a scene of sensuality
Starring
Kristen Stewart,
Robert Pattinson,
Billy Burke,
Peter Facinelli,
Elizabeth Reaser,
Cam Cigandet,
Nikki Reed,
and
Jackson Rathbone
Bella Swan has always been a little bit different, never caring about fitting in with the trendy girls at her Phoenix high school. When her mother re-marries and sends Bella to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she doesn't expect much of anything to change. Then she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen, a boy unlike any she's ever met. Edward is a vampire, but he doesn't have fangs and his family is unique in that they choose not to drink human blood. Intelligent and witty, Edward sees straight into Bella's soul. Soon, they are swept up in a passionate, thrilling and unorthodox romance. To Edward, Bella is what he has waited 90 years for - a soul mate. But the closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy. But what will Edward & Bella do when a clan of new vampires comes to town and threaten to disrupt their way of life? (Summit Entertainment)
| GENRE(S): |
Action
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Horror
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Romance
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Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Melissa Rosenberg
Stephenie Meyer (novel)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Catherine Hardwicke
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: March 21, 2009
Theatrical: November 21, 2008
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| RUNNING TIME: |
120 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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80
Empire
Will Lawrence
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.

80
The New Yorker
David Denby
A genuine love story might be difficult for a young audience to handle, but this fantasy is blissful madness--an abstinence fable sexier than sex.

75
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Pattison grows on us as he grows on Bella: His weird mannerisms and nervous delivery stop seeming like quirks and acquire an intensity that's hard to resist by the end.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
Twilight has a few gory plot turns - mostly offscreen - and one near-sex scene that may offend a few Amish people, but the rest is maybe 33 percent less wholesome than "High School Musical." It's almost certainly less risque than what you were watching when you were 14. (Cue the soundtrack to "Risky Business.")

75
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Actually, the movie's a better movie than the book was a book, in part because Meyer struggled to put her characters' galloping emotions into print whereas director Catherine Hardwicke just visualizes them in all their inarticulate purpleness.

75
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
On screen, Twilight is repetitive and a tad sodden, too prosaic to really soar. But Hardwicke stirs this teen pulp to a pleasing simmer.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Twilight - directed with savvy humor by Catherine Hardwicke - turns vampirism into a metaphor for teen lust.

75
TV Guide
Tracie Cooper
In terms of bringing the book to life, Twilight is a complete success, so much so that most of the film's flaws work within the context of the story.

70
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
On the whole, Twilight works as both love story and vampire story, thanks mainly to the performances of its principals, Pattinson and Stewart.

70
Time
Richard Corliss
So Twilight isn't a masterpiece -- no matter. It rekindles the warmth of great Hollywood romances, where foreplay was the climax and a kiss was never just a kiss.

70
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Hardwicke still manages to find the sweet spot where Gothic literature and the iPod meet and make goo-goo eyes at each other. Without embarrassment, she and screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg dig right into the almost generic simplicity of the story.

70
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Hardwicke has connected so intensely to the Meyer novel that it's hard to imagine anyone else making a better version.

70
New York Magazine
David Edelstein
The best thing in the movie is Stewart. She was the leggy hobo-camp teen in love with Emile Hirsch in "Into the Wild," and she's better at conveying physical longing than any of the actors playing vampires.

63
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Bummer. The vampires have no fangs. The humans are humdrum. The special effects and makeup define cheeseball. And the movie crowds in so many characters from Stephenie Meyer’s book that Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen) is less a director than a traffic cop. But there’s a reason that Twilight has already become the movie equivalent of a bestseller: The love story has teeth.

63
Miami Herald
Sara Frederick
None of the movie's flaws will matter. Teenage girls are going to love Twilight,and many are sure to see it more than once.

63
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Twilight isn't an especially good movie, but neither is it an abomination. At times, the dialogue is laugh-aloud bad - almost to the point of being hilarious.

63
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
The superfast running effects, with Edward dashing up mountains, or rival, evil vampires swooping here and there at amazing speed, look genuinely cheesy, like the guy running the race in the smart-phone ad. I'm surprised Hardwicke and her colleagues couldn't solve this one more effectively. Set pieces such as a vampire baseball game fall flat as well.

63
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Twilight will mesmerize its target audience, 16-year-old girls and their grandmothers. Their mothers know all too much about boys like this.

60
Slate
Dana Stevens
As a life lesson for teenage girls, Twilight (excuse the pun) sucks. As a parable for the dark side of female desire, it's weirdly powerful.

60
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
It's disappointing when a big-screen romance can't match up to the one in your imagination, at any age.

60
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
An underwhelming vampire romance long on camp but short on emotional insight

60
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Though Edward and Bella reach certain heights in Twilight, notably during a charming scene that finds them leaping from piney treetop to treetop against the spectacular wilderness backdrop, the story’s moral undertow keeps dragging them down.

58
Portland Oregonian
Marc Mohan
Every generation gets the cinematic vampires it deserves...The current decade, judging from the bloodsuckers on display in Twilight, will be remembered as one of guilt, restraint and denial. It's just not that fun to be undead anymore.

50
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
This adaptation of the best-selling novel by Stephenie Meyer never rises above the level of a teen soaper on the CW, and its pale, sulky boy toys (Kellan Lutz, Peter Facinelli, Jackson Rathbone) are more silly than scary.

50
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
The movie is mainly geared to putting new twists on what John Hughes comedies used to call "sucking face." It will satisfy Meyer's devotees.

50
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Edward's a remarkable young gentleman when you consider the hell he's been through: It turns out he's always 17, his fate to keep repeating high school, forever and ever. If that's my only option, kindly burn me at the stake.

50
Premiere
Jenni Miller
The religious symbolism couldn't be more obvious (or disturbing). Keep your religion out of our vampires, Hollywood!

50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
Sometimes sensitive and often silly but really, essentially, beneath his pallor and her panting and their intertwined frustrations, it's just two long hours of coitus interruptus.

50
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Despite questionable casting, wooden acting, laughable dialogue and truly awful makeup, nothing is likely to stop young girls from swarming to this kitschy adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's popular novel.

50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Travis Nichols
Those who want something to really sink their teeth into should head home on a rainy day, put on some goth anthems and reread the books.

50
Variety
Justin Chang
A disappointingly anemic tale of forbidden love that should satiate the pre-converted but will bewilder and underwhelm viewers who haven't devoured Stephenie Meyer's bestselling juvie chick-lit franchise.

50
Village Voice
Chuck Wilson
In the 17-million-copy land of "Twilight," the calling card isn't blood and fangs, but the exquisite, shimmering quiver of unconsummated first love. By that measure, the movie version gives really good swoon.

42
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Genevieve Koski
While the movie attempts to find an compelling middle ground between gothic supernaturalism and teenage romance, it usually winds up stumbling into the inane territory implied by both descriptions.

42
Christian Science Monitor
Robert Koehler
A young and as-yet-unformed actor, Stewart is cast in a role she's simply not ready for, and her effort to work hard – exactly what any actor must hide from the audience – is painfully visible in every scene. By contrast, Pattinson is smooth as glass, a born movie star who only needs to slant his eyes to grab attention.

40
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
In a film that has the courage of its absurdity but not much else, Mr. Pattinson gets the best of what passes for style.

30
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
I've had mosquito bites that were more passionate than this undead, unrequited, and altogether unfun pseudo-romantic riff on Romeo and Juliet.

30
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
Q: When is a vampire not a vampire?
A: When it goes out in daylight, sees itself in a mirror, doesn’t drink human blood, and still manages to suck.


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