Byzantium
IFC Films | Release Date: June 28, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
66
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Generally favorable reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews
Positive:
17
Mixed:
5
Negative:
1
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60
NPRIan BuckwalterJun 27, 2013
Neil Jordan seems well aware that audiences may be feeling deep fatigue about vampires. So with his latest, the director of Interview With the Vampire makes a vampire film that seeks to reinvent the species, while harking back to a more classical — read: less sparkly — take on the genre. Read full review
60
Total FilmNeil SmithMay 12, 2013
Jordan’s apparent resolve to make an anti-Twilight unfortunately results in a movie that, if not for a fistful of moments of shock, style and excess, would be as drained of colour and tension as Ronan’s victims are of hemoglobin. Read full review
58
Film.comJordan HoffmanMar 12, 2013
It isn’t just the bright colors and the costumes but every visual aspect of Byzantium that sings. Neil Jordan knows where to put the camera. It’s just a shame he wasn’t able to inject a little life inside that frame. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanJun 26, 2013
The best thing in the movie is Arterton's sultry, claw-baring turn, but mostly it's a rudderless riff on "Let the Right One In." Read full review
42
The PlaylistKevin JagernauthMay 12, 2013
Though given two committed turns by a tremendously sexy and vicious Arterton and a solid-as-always Ronan, Byzantium often feels as gray and lifeless as the corpses in the film. Read full review
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