The Moth Diaries 2011

Kathleen Murphy, MSN Movies: The Moth Diaries fails to frighten, titillate or otherwise engage the imagination. Read more

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Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: Roiling with jealousy, suicide and latent lesbian urges, "The Moth Diaries" dances on the border between hallucination and reality without fully committing to either. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: Harron, a supremely intelligent adaptor who did wonders with the screen version of Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho, simply doesn't have the chops to give this story the florid kick it needs. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Defeats Harron's talent for exploring darkness on the edge of kinkiness. Read more

Neil Young, Hollywood Reporter: Disastrously mishandled adaptation of a neo-Gothic novel set in a posh girls' college. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Harron can do little with this bloodless drama, a shadow of such quiet vampire treats as "Let the Right One In" and "The Addiction." Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: Where are the shivers? The girls are properly fragile, ethereal and neurotic, but the way Ms. Harron gingerly moves them around like porcelain dolls is too careful to stir up much terror. Read more

Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: Way too serious for its own good. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Not enough psychology to be intelligently creepy, and not enough schlock to be viscerally scary. Read more

David Fear, Time Out: Whither the filmmaker who gave us such memorable monsters as Patrick Bateman and Valerie Solanas, or such complex females as Bettie Page? Someone has apparently stolen the director's identity and is making movies under her name. Read more

Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: While there's plenty of promise, there's no payoff with this would-be horror. Read more

Nick Schager, Village Voice: Lesbian desires, fears of mortality, and adolescent jealousies are all handled as bluntly as the unintentionally corny black-and-white flashbacks and gauzy dream sequences. Read more