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Alynda Wheat, People: MODERATE (cg) "...fans can rejoice that 'Breaking Dawn - Part 1' is a breathless, faithful portrayal of so much they've waited to see... haters can delight in the fact that it's the beginning of the end." (Read the full review...) 389 words, 11/17/11 Mary Pols, Time: WEAK "Young people of the world: Sex is nothing like this! See, this is what happens when you don't practice safe sex; even the undead can knock you up." (Read the full review...) 998 words, 11/18/11 Christy Lemire, Associated Press: WEAK (cg) "...so self-serious, it's hard not to cackle at it. The dialogue is, of course, ridiculous and the acting ranges from stiff to mopey." (Read the full review...) 685 words, 11/17/11 Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: FAIR (cg) "Jeez, pregnancy and childbirth, staged with exorbitant production-design attention to gyno-catastrophe, look like scenes of full-on, fright-night horror." (Read the full review...) 572 words, 11/16/11 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: POOR (cg) "...sexless, bloodless, padded and plodding... substitutes timidity for risk at every turn. Even good actors expire under the film's cheeseball cloud." (Read the full review...) 262 words, 11/18/11 Scott Bowles, USA Today: VERY GOOD (cg) "Stewart's transformation to the living dead is strong. Pattinson remains a doe-eyed matinee idol, though spurned werewolf lover Jacob (Taylor Lautner) gets to act a little." (Read the full review...) 346 words, 11/18/11 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Can humans and vampires mate? What's the blood chemistry on that? What will be in the wee one's bottle? Milk, or the unthinkable?" (Read the full review...) 721 words, 11/18/11 Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: VERY GOOD (cg) "Kristen Stewart can actually be compelled to, like, stand up straight, and one is grateful. One is also grateful for the film's finale, which is genuinely brilliant." (Read the full review...) 733 words, 11/17/11 James Berardinelli, Reel Views: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "The final 30 minutes represents good fun and makes up for a measure of the torture inflicted upon viewers getting to that point." (Read the full review...) 1,174 words, 11/18/11
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...ridiculously appealing... Condon resurrects the awkward teenage yearning that enlivened the first movie, but also transforms that initial, crude hunger into something deeper." (Read the full review...) 1,018 words, 11/18/11 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...the weirdest, most expensive chastity commercial ever created.... Meyer's story leads straight from some brief honeymoon bliss to The Consequences of Sex." (Read the full review...) 440 words, 11/18/11 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: WEAK "...kinda sucks... The film doesn't have nearly the bite -- ferocious or delicious -- that any self-respecting vampire movie really should. It's as if all the life has drained away." (Read the full review...) 804 words, 11/18/11 Sara Stewart, New York Post: MODERATE (cg) "Pattinson, who seems pretty well aware of how ridiculous this has all gotten, sums it up nicely. 'Well,' Edward says to his emaciated, blood-slurping bride, 'they say the first year is the hardest!' " (Read the full review...) 736 words, 11/18/11 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: WEAK (cg) "...how did Bill Condon, the director with the most stylish and idiosyncratic resume of any to undertake a 'Twilight' installment, deliver the dullest movie of the bunch?" (Read the full review...) 503 words, 11/18/11 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: MODERATE (cg) "It didn't seem possible, but the teen vampire soap-opera that has brought us so many good laughs over the years has reached new heights of comedy." (Read the full review...) 292 words, 11/18/11 David Edelstein, New York Magazine: EXCELLENT "...ferociously powerful... the last twenty minutes are so harrowing that it's possible to forget that most of the acting is soap-operatic and the dialogue from hunger." (Read the full review...) 736 words, 11/18/11 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Can humans and vampires mate? What's the blood chemistry on that? What will be in the wee one's bottle? Milk, or the unthinkable?" (Read the full review...) 721 words, 11/18/11 Dan Kois, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "...tonally incoherent... both overlong and understuffed. I lived a thousand lifetimes watching it, and died a thousand deaths." (Read the full review...) 846 words, 11/23/11 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: MODERATE (cg) "...the back story feud between vampires and werewolves continues to brew, but to no discernible effect. The brief fight scenes are in half darkness and dissolve rather than resolve..." (Read the full review...) 574 words, 11/18/11 Liam Lacey, Toronto Globe & Mail: MODERATE (cg) "...director Bill Condon ('Dreamgirls,' 'Gods and Monsters') seems determined to make this the most talky and dawdling of all of the 'Twilight' movies." (Read the full review...) 697 words, 11/18/11 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "Condon tries to humanize the ridiculous supernatural soap opera... But things get wobbly when Bella and Edward go off on their honeymoon." (Read the full review...) 620 words, 11/24/11
Mark Jenkins, Washington Post: WEAK (cg) "Condon fails to bring a distinctive sensibility. Perhaps he was too busy wrestling with the vamp-versus-wolf action sequences to add much sly humor." (Read the full review...) 536 words, 11/18/11 Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: VERY GOOD (cg) "...sympathetically details Bella's journey from girlhood to womanhood... If by several lengths it is the best of the 'Twilight' movies it is because it has the best story to tell." (Read the full review...) 587 words, 11/18/11 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: WEAK (cg) "When you're not giggling at the jokes, you'll be rolling your eyes at the dull melodramatics, or rolling on the floor at the big doggie debate amongst the digital wolves." (Read the full review...) 472 words, 11/18/11 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: MODERATE (cg) "...by far the weirdest entry so far, a superheated stew of contradictory messages about sexuality and self-sacrifice.... Bella remains a passive, sulky martyr." (Read the full review...) 540 words, 11/18/11 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: POOR (cg) "...goofy, slight, without a truly deep thought in its pretty little head.... the only scary thing is in the title - 'Part 1,' which means 'Part 2' is on its way. Shudder." (Read the full review...) 702 words, 11/18/11 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: MODERATE (cg) "It tries to have fun with the kind of sex that destroys a bedroom but without showing us the sex, which is like telling me you hit a grand-slam by presenting a broken bat." (Read the full review...) 818 words, 11/18/11 Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: MODERATE (cg) "...seems to avoid any subtext -- a curious choice, as the central story is about a mother refusing to consider an abortion, even though the pregnancy is killing her." (Read the full review...) 539 words, 11/18/11 Amy Biancolli, San Francisco Chronicle: MODERATE (cg) "...about as loony and soapy as a movie can get." (Read the full review...) 427 words, 11/18/11 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: MODERATE (cg) "...as a whole feels stretched-out, as if the filmmakers realized belatedly that there wasn't enough material in the book to sustain two movies." (Read the full review...) 508 words, 11/18/11 Jane Henderson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: MODERATE (cg) "Special effects range from ludicrous to repulsive... The bloody birth scene may successfully push hundreds of hormonal teens to a new vow of celibacy." (Read the full review...) 435 words, 11/18/11 Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: POOR (cg) "Big thanks to Twihards for keeping me awake by sighing out loud and laughing at dialogue that's only amusing if you memorized the books." (Read the full review...) 545 words, 11/18/11 Tom Long, Detroit News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "It's a 'Twilight' movie. Romance, blood, battles and demons obviously trump common sense any day. Fans, enjoy. Newbies, beware." (Read the full review...) 558 words, 11/18/11 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "This one draws you close and keeps you there -- and, for those of us who haven't read Stephenie Meyer's novel, delivers some surprising turns of plot." (Read the full review...) 781 words, 11/18/11
Dan Kois, Village Voice/LA Weekly: POOR "...tonally incoherent... both overlong and understuffed. I lived a thousand lifetimes watching it, and died a thousand deaths." (Read the full review...) 846 words, 11/23/11 Katey Rich, Cinema Blend: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...sometimes as stiff and plodding as the previous films, but the vital signs on this one are clearer than on any of the others." (Read the full review...) 692 words, 11/18/11 Ann Lewinson, Boston Phoenix: POOR (cg) "...a movie so expurgated that some scenes will be inscrutable to those who haven't slogged through the novel." (Read the full review...) 150 words, 11/24/11 Alison Willmore, AV Club: GOOD (cg) "It may be impossible for anyone but existing fans to take this seriously, but for the unconverted, it's still a legitimately engaging, gape-worthy nutso spectacle." (Read the full review...) 405 words, 11/17/11 Stephanie Zacharek, Movieline: VERY GOOD (cg) "...something resembling human adult sexual obsession and its attendant responsibilities and anxieties. It's like 'Jules and Jim' for the Tigerbeat set." (Read the full review...) 1,141 words, 11/17/11 R. Kurt Osenlund, Slant: POOR (cg) "...there will be forced chemistry between the lead couple, there will be brooding alt-rock tracks no 'Twilight' director can avoid, and there will, indeed, be a shirtless Taylor Lautner." (Read the full review...) 980 words, 11/17/11 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "Condon tries to humanize the ridiculous supernatural soap opera... But things get wobbly when Bella and Edward go off on their honeymoon." (Read the full review...) 620 words, 11/24/11 Debbie Michaud, Atlanta Creative Loafing: WEAK (cg) "...full of mixed messages about sex and abuse and purity. But camp for once trumps earnestness to make this the franchise's most watchable entry yet." (Read the full review...) 592 words, 11/18/11 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: POOR (cg) "It's like 'Twilight' has been saying all along: Women don't really know what they want until other people make things happen to them. And then it's all okay." (Read the full review...) 761 words, 11/21/11
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...ridiculously appealing... Condon resurrects the awkward teenage yearning that enlivened the first movie, but also transforms that initial, crude hunger into something deeper." (Read the full review...) 1,018 words, 11/18/11 Linda Holmes, NPR: POOR "...romanticizing an intimate relationship that leaves bruises and scars is a particularly terrible idea in a film aimed at girls." (Read the full review...) 920 words, 11/17/11 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: WEAK "...kinda sucks... The film doesn't have nearly the bite -- ferocious or delicious -- that any self-respecting vampire movie really should. It's as if all the life has drained away." (Read the full review...) 804 words, 11/18/11 Dana Stevens, Slate: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...incoherent and dopey and feverishly overdramatic... But it's also good-looking and promiscuously perverse and brimming over with an excess of life..." (Read the full review...) 1,073 words, 11/18/11 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...masks its genuine perversity under layers of artifice and saccharine melodrama. I truly do not mean that as a criticism.... a lot of it is absolutely ravishing to watch..." (Read the full review...) 958 words, 11/17/11
Justin Chang, Daily Variety: FAIR "...rich in surface pleasures but lacks any palpable sense of darkness or danger... Two nocturnal wolves-vs.-vamps combat scenes are essentially thrill-free..." (Read the full review...) 847 words, 11/11/11 Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: POOR "...feels as bloated and anemic as Bella becomes during her pregnancy.... all we get are languid and lax interludes of what still seems like puppy love.... very disappointing." (Read the full review...) 914 words, 11/11/11 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: WEAK "...kinda sucks... The film doesn't have nearly the bite -- ferocious or delicious -- that any self-respecting vampire movie really should. It's as if all the life has drained away." (Read the full review...) 804 words, 11/18/11 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: MODERATE (cg) "Like 'Twilight' directors Chris Weitz ('New Moon') and David Slade ('Eclipse') before him, Bill Condon is unable to put a personal stamp on the franchise." (Read the full review...) 714 words, 11/17/11 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...ridiculously appealing... Condon resurrects the awkward teenage yearning that enlivened the first movie, but also transforms that initial, crude hunger into something deeper." (Read the full review...) 1,018 words, 11/18/11
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