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Twilight (2008)Movie Reviews

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Metascore®56 out of 100 | Mixed or average reviews

Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 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. Read full review

  • 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. Read full review

  • 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. Read full review

  • 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. Read full review

  • 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. Read full review

  • 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. Read full review

  • 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. Read full review

  • 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. Read full review

  • 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. Read full review

  • 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. Read full review