Twilight Pares the Book Down to Essential, Unconsummated Love Story - Movies - Village Voicepage 1 (flag)
www.villagevoice.com — Stephenie Meyer's wildly popular novel, Twilight—the first in a four-book series about a 17-year-old girl who falls in love with the hunky vampire who sits next to her in biology class—bored me silly, but that's clearly a minority opinion. In the novel, Bella and her cold-to-the-touch lothario, ...
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Movie Moron — ... Entertainment Weekly - “[Twilight] has reconjured Meyer’s novel as a cloudburst mood piece filled with stormy skies, rippling hormones, and understated visual effects. What [director] Hardwicke can’t quite triumph over is the book’s lackluster plot. On screen, Twilight is repetitive and a tad sodden, too prosaic to really soar. But Hardwicke stirs this teen pulp to a pleasing simmer. Grade: B” Village Voice - “…draws strong, star-making performances from the two ...

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Hollywood Elsewhere — Goodfellas So I'm not entirely alone . Pro- Twilight critics include Entertainment Weekly 's Owen Gleiberman , the Village Voice 's Chuck Wilson ("gives really good swoon"), the S.F. Chronicle 's Peter Hartlaub (director Catherine Hardwicke "has a knack for making her young actors seem unpolished and real, even when the events from the book and the dialogue are inherently ridiculous"), the Star-Tribune 's Colin Covert , the Orlando Sentinel 's Roger Moore , etc.

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