Synopses & Reviews
When Bella Swan moves to gloomy Forks, Washington to live with her father and begins her junior year in high school, she meets and falls in love with Edward Cullen who is secretly a vampire.
Review
"A genuine love story might be difficult for a young audience to handle, but this fantasy is blissful madness — an abstinence fable sexier than sex." The New Yorker
Review
"Actually, the movie's a better movie than the book was a book, in part because Meyer struggled to put her characters' galloping emotions into print whereas director Catherine Hardwicke just visualizes them in all their inarticulate purpleness." The Boston Globe
Review
"Hardwicke stirs this teen pulp to a pleasing simmer." Entertainment Weekly
Review
"It rekindles the warmth of great Hollywood romances, where foreplay was the climax and a kiss was never just a kiss." Time Magazine
Review
"The best thing in the movie is Stewart....[S]he's better at conveying physical longing than any of the actors playing vampires." New York Magazine