Another young-adult adaptation bites the dust.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Jan 9, 2017

A film that attempts to satire the popular love triangle romances of the current day, yet falls into the same tired cliches of said films.

| Original Score: D+ | Apr 23, 2015

I thought it was a complete mess. I thought the teenage dialogue was puerile and that was a shame because Daniel Waters wrote the screenplay for HEATHERS, which is one of the really nice films about school but that was a long time ago.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 10, 2014

The screenplay by Daniel Waters, the director's brother, is stuffed with puerile dialogue, all the more disappointing given that, back in 1988, he wrote one of the best school movies, Heathers.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 28, 2014

Vampire Academy occasionally plays as if it's on fast-forward, rushing from one moment to the next without providing much reason to care about what's happening[.]

| Original Score: 2.0/5 | Feb 14, 2014

This is a garbage heap of weak quips, delivered by an assortment of pretty boys and girls and amped up with some cheesy moments of animal cruelty.

| Feb 13, 2014

It's not a complete disaster, but even the appearance of Gabriel Byrne, as Lissa's uncle Victor, fails to make much of a dent in the slapdash proceedings.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 13, 2014

Not only plays like the crassest possible mashup of "Harry Potter" and "Twilight" elements, but seems designed to make those franchises look like eternal monuments of world culture by comparison.

| Feb 11, 2014

This attempt to capture the magic of the "Twilight" and "Harry Potter" franchises tries too hard to pack all the backstory and borrowings into one film.

| Feb 9, 2014

[Mr. Waters] doesn't seem especially interested in the supernatural parts of "Vampire Academy," and he clearly didn't have the budget to make what little hocus-pocus there is magical.

| Feb 9, 2014

Ultimately more "Meaningless" than "Mean Girls," "Vampire Academy" is a busy, overcomplicated empowerment fantasy with more hormones than brain cells.

| Feb 7, 2014

The only thing that distinguishes this teen-magnet wannabe from its predecessors is how lazily it appears to have been slapped together.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 7, 2014

For smart, strong girls, and the guys who like them, Vampire Academy will hit a vein.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 7, 2014

It's "Twilight" as directed by Mark Waters, of "Mean Girls." It's an idea that might have been intriguing 15 years ago, before those movies existed.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 7, 2014

If a supernatural teen film ever required CliffsNotes, it would be this one.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 7, 2014

One idea, mixed with lame jokes, and stretched beyond coherence. Vampire Academy doesn't need a review. It needs a stake in the heart.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Feb 7, 2014

For the target audience - teen girls likely to spend as much time gossiping in the theater lobby as they are to actually watch the movie - "Vampire Academy" is pure catnip.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 7, 2014

Vampire Academy ultimately doesn't have much bite, but that doesn't stop it from trying to continually show its teeth.

| Original Score: C | Feb 7, 2014

It doesn't build its world as deftly as 'Hunger Games' and can't compete with 'Mean Girls'' smart wit, but 'Vampire Academy' does manage to find a place for itself as a silly yet enjoyable variant.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 7, 2014