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Avg. Critic Score: 59 out of 100 Mixed or average reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
16 Iffy for 16+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    USA Today | Mike Clark

    The generally faithful script is by Anne Rice herself, the director is "The Crying Game"'s Neil Jordan, and both seem true to themselves and as true as they can be to artistic and visceral expectations. [11Nov1994 Pg. 01.D] Read full review

  • 90
    The New York Times | Elvis Mitchell

    His sumptuous film is as strange and mesmerizing as it is imaginatively ghastly. It's a sophisticated, spookily intense rendering of Ms. Rice's story. Read full review

  • 75
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    But for all its visionary brilliance, the movie version of Interview never lets us close enough to see ourselves in Louis. We're dazzled but unmoved. Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    A stronger plot engine might have drawn us more quickly to the end, but on a scene by scene basis, Interview with the Vampire is a skillful exercise in macabre imagination. Read full review

  • 67
    Austin Chronicle | Marc Savlov

    It is, however, a very satisfying film, and surely the first in a long franchise (it does, after all, bear the subtitle The Vampire Chronicles). Read full review

  • 60
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    But the film also has its turgid, dialogue-heavy stretches, and the leading performances, if acceptable, are not everything they needed to be to fully flesh out these elegant immortals. Read full review

  • 60
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    Unfortunately, the story, adapted by Anne Rice from her best-selling novel, sucks at the neck a little too long. A 23-minute snipping from this 123-minute movie would have done wonders. Read full review

  • 50
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    Although he works his hardest at the part and doesn't embarrass himself, even with the help of Stan Winston's vampire makeup Tom Cruise is plainly miscast as Lestat. [11Nov1994 Pg. F1] Read full review

  • 42
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Dramatically, though, the film is torpid. Read full review

  • 30
    Washington Post | Rita Kempley

    Passionately anticipated and much ballyhooed, the film, alas, is little more than a foppish, fang de siecle costume drama. Its pulse barely registers. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 16+ Entertaining but gruesomely gory vampire tale.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this is a violent, bloody movie about vampires. Death and murder are main themes and are depicted with a great deal of graphic violence and gore. Because the film is based on a bestselling fiction series and features popular actors Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, and Kirsten Dunst, kids may be familiar with the movie and want to see it.
  • Families can talk about how the various vampires react to killing others. Why does Louis feel guilty while Lestat does not? Which character do you most identify with? The depictions of slaves can give families an opportunity to talk about stereotypes of black characters in film. Why are the female slaves depicted as sexpots? How are their religious beliefs characterized?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: While some of the vampire characters feel guilty about killing others, more of them crave and love it.
What to watch for
  • violence false5 Violence: The action is graphic and gory.
  • sex false5 Sex: Female nudity, references to prostitutes and incest, as well as strong sexual overtones.
  • language false3 Language: Some.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: One of the main characters drinks alcohol in order to get drunk, though consequences are depicted.
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