The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Summit Entertainment | Release Date: June 30, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
58
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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
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