Ten years after its release, Twilight stands as a powerful, darkly stylish depiction of teen female desire.

| Nov 15, 2018

My hope is that the sequels are actual attempts at movies. The world doesn't need any more toothless cinema.

| Original Score: C- | May 6, 2011

A deeply sincere, outright goofy vampire romance for the hot-not-to-trot abstinence set.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 8, 2011

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

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 8, 2011

I watched Twilight in a cinema full of young girls who, when they weren't texting friends and guzzling soft drinks, giggled, sighed and exhaled with a passion that was not only endearing, but a measure of its emotional truth.

| Dec 19, 2008

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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 19, 2008

In a film of this kind a great deal depends on the chemistry between the lead actors, and here Twilight falls especially short.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 19, 2008

Some will find it all too polite, but compared to rival blockbuster exercises in explosive CGI mayhem, its character-based index of longing and protectiveness at least provides a viable alternative moodscape.

| Original Score: 3/6 | Dec 19, 2008

The two hormonal teenagers sizzle like sausages in a frying pan. The supernatural stunts don't disappoint. Neither does the deadpan wit.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 19, 2008

It is, in its unworldly way, sweetly idealistic with a charm all of its own: a teen romance to get your teeth into.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 19, 2008

This is sexual-Gothic tripe of a high order. I am looking forward to the second instalment.

| Dec 19, 2008

It gets a little silly, at times, particularly in the special-effects department, but Stewart and Pattinson are a quite mesmerising pair, and their twitchy, sidelong glances play out a duet of unspoken yearning that might just get under your skin.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 19, 2008

Horror fans will find little to sink their teeth into, but it'll get tweenage hearts fluttering like orgasmic bats.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 19, 2008

Twilight, a fantasy romance involving a self-loathing vampire and his sweet-blooded soul mate, is the kind of movie that gets pop culture addicts excited. Surrender to its daftness and you'll emerge covered in something very like a cold sweat.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 19, 2008

The film's main problems stem from its uneven efforts to marry purple passion with black comedy.

| Dec 12, 2008

Is there something darker: an unhealthy fascination with unwholesome relationships and bad boys, perhaps mixed with a Nightingale/Stockholm-syndrome desire to "save" them?

| Original Score: C | Nov 28, 2008

A darn good hunk of pop moviemaking.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 24, 2008

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.

| Nov 24, 2008

Twilight the movie is cautious, a sort of Tiger Beat-ified Twin Peaks. In its undercooked way, though, it's enjoyable.

Full Review | Nov 24, 2008

Twilight is silly and melodramatic and hard to dislike in much the same way as its target audience, with a distinctly teenage sense of tragedy.

| Nov 21, 2008