The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Summit Entertainment | Release Date: June 30, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 38 Critic Reviews
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
The story, at heart, is earnest and humorless teen romantic glop, but its feelings aren't fake, and the movie is compulsively watchable; it has a passionflower intensity. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
It took three films, but The Twilight Saga finally nails just the right tone in Eclipse, a film that neatly balances the teenage operatic passions from Stephenie Meyer's novels with the movies' supernatural trappings. Read full review
80
VarietyPeter Debruge
Employing a bigger budget, better effects and an edgier director ("Hard Candy's" David Slade), Eclipse focuses on what works -- the stars. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesBetsy Sharkey
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is back with all of the lethal and loving bite it was meant to have: The kiss of the vampire is cooler, the werewolf is hotter, the battles are bigger and the choices are, as everyone with a pulse (and a few without) knows by now, life-changing. Read full review
80
EmpireWill Lawrence
By far the best Twilight film to date, Slade should satisfy the fan base while opening up the series to more sceptical viewers… Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
With the bigger story and more fully developed relationships than the previous films, this is the first Twilight film that feels like a real movie in its own right. Read full review
75
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
If Slade doesn't necessarily advance the medium with this installment, he nonetheless advances the franchise, with enough lucidity and skill that he's persuaded at least one erstwhile agnostic to take a stand. Read full review
75
New York PostKyle Smith
Dispenses with much of the caramel gooeyness of the first two episodes in favor of decent action, some heartfelt tender moments and even a splash of wit. This time they’re actually Twi-ing. Read full review
70
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
If there is a bit more humor on display here -- some of it evidence that an element of self-conscious self-mockery is sneaking into the franchise -- there is also more violence, and, true to the film’s title, a deeper intimation of darkness. What there isn’t, as usual, is much in the way of good acting, with the decisive and impressive exception of Ms. Stewart, who can carry a close-up about as well as anyone in movies today. Read full review
70
Boxoffice MagazineAmy Nicholson
Eclipse has its cheesecake and eats it, too. Read full review
70
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
One of the better multiplex options of this legendarily dismal summer. Read full review
70
SlateDana Stevens
It's a question of whether or not the movie speaks to your secret, unregulated, inherently ridiculous experience of identification and desire--not who you should be, but who you are. Does the warm blood of a teenager still flow beneath your icy grown-up flesh? Read full review
70
TimeMary Pols
Certainly it's the lightest and brightest -- everyone is still chaste, but the movie is actually sexy in parts. It appears to have embraced its own sense of camp and is consistently funny in an intentional way. For the first time, I found myself curious to see what comes next. Read full review
70
Village VoiceDan Kois
Eclipse is the least laughable installment yet in the series, and director David Slade efficiently delivers the fan service that Twihards require. Read full review
63
Orlando SentinelRoger Moore
The Twilight Saga comes close to that sweet spot between swooning silliness and special effects slaughter with Eclipse. Read full review
63
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
Eclipse, like its two predecessors, is ham-fisted and obvious, a mass-market entertainment with a frustrating lack of imagination. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
The Twilight star's line-readings have become like Edward and his bloodsucking kin: They lack a pulse. Read full review
63
St. Louis Post-DispatchKevin C. Johnson
Why the bloodsucker and the wolf boy treat Bella as if she's the cat's meow is still a mystery. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
The movie is still incredibly silly but in a more boisterous way, like a comic book come to life. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBill Goodykoontz
Forget Team Edward vs. Team Jacob. I'm backing Team David, as in David Slade, the director who has finally managed to breathe some life into the "Twilight" series, heretofore a deadly dull undead undertaking. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
The truth is, almost everyone planning to see Eclipse will know how things end before the opening credits even appear. So Slade and his cast can be proud that they consistently keep us involved anyway. Read full review
60
NPRBob Mondello
There are better special effects than last time, and Bella gets to be brave when it counts. All of which should be like a freshly opened vein for fans -- especially as it results in Eclipse ending up almost exactly where it started, with weddings still to come. Can you wait? Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The movie contains violence and death, but not really very much. For most of its languorous running time, it listens to conversations between Bella and Edward, Bella and David, Edward and David, and Edward and Bella and David. This would play better if any of them were clever conversationalists, but their ideas are limited to simplistic renderings of their desires. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
These movies are more about the experience of hearing girls and women who should know better holler at the screen. They could just as well be at a concert. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
More happens in Eclipse than in the previous "Twilight" zone, "New Moon," and yet it's duller Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia Puig
The huge contingent of girls -- and women with girlish fantasies -- who liked the first two movies will doubtless enjoy Eclipse. But this third go-round won't make Twihard converts of the rest of us. Read full review
50
Portland OregonianM. E. Russell
The fun thing about Eclipse is watching Lautner emerge as the Han Solo of this series, getting all the laughs and calling Edward and Bella on their preciousness. Read full review
50
Rolling StonePeter Travers
For now, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is just one more walk on the mild sides for tweens who dream of being penetrated by cold flesh that will keep them young and cute forever. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubGenevieve Koski
While Eclipse’s action highs are higher, its expositional lows are lower, particularly during the numerous scenes featuring Lautner. Read full review
50
MovielineStephanie Zacharek
Eclipse, while admittedly an improvement over last year’s barely coherent "New Moon," only adds insult to injury. Nothing so grand as a real eclipse, it’s more just a massive blind spot. Read full review
50
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike Scott
More than just corny. Eclipse is boring. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleAmy Biancolli
Melissa Rosenberg's screenplay is faithful enough to Meyer's soap-operatic inclinations, but I kind of wish it weren't. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderNoah Berlatsky
As werewolf Jake, Taylor Lautner does his best to salvage things by showing his bare chest through almost the entire movie, and the rest of the cast struggles gamely, but the script sucks the life out of them. This is definitely the worst installment of the franchise to date. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleKimberley Jones
The supposedly epic battle the entire film builds toward – the single action set-piece – is a ho-hummer. Fire and ice, turns out, was an oversell: Think tepid tap water instead. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
“Twilight” is essentially an adolescent female fantasia about coming to terms with one’s sexuality. There I’ve said it. And I’m sure no one else has ever said it. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
I can't pretend that the third episode instilled a fever in my blood, but it didn't leave me cold. For the first time in the series I felt I'd seen a real movie. Read full review
42
Tampa Bay TimesSteve Persall
I honestly thought Eclipse would be different, after "New Moon" showed stirrings of cinematic life. Read full review
40
Time OutStaff (Not credited)
You brace for a certain amount of hand-wringing, lip-biting and pinup posing aimed at middle-schoolers; given the way that Eclipse initially suggests a potential for reaching beyond a preteen audience, you just wish the beefcake and cheese didn’t eventually overshadow its better qualities. Read full review
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