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Mary F. Pols, TIME Magazine: This is Meyer's worst offense -- her disturbingly Victorian attitudes about sex and love, which this particular movie falls modestly in lockstep with, even though it concludes years of cinematic foreplay. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 and the upcoming Part 2 were both directed by Dreamgirls' Bill Condon, who keeps the lunacy moving apace. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: "Breaking Dawn'' is the series in its fullest Victorian flower. But with Bill Condon directing, the pacing is all wrong. It's "Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies.'' Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: The dialogue is, of course, ridiculous and the acting ranges from stiff to mopey. But moments that should be pulsating with tension are usually hilarious because the special effects are still just so distractingly cheesy. Read more
Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: One is also grateful for the film's finale... which is genuinely brilliant. There, I said it. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: The latest and best of the movies about a girl, her vampire and their impossible, ridiculously appealing - yes, I surrendered - love story. Read more
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: Color us stoked that a Twilight movie even strays into evil-fetus territory. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: The last twenty minutes of Breaking Dawn are so harrowing that it's possible to forget that most of the acting is soap-operatic (the guy who plays Carlisle is aging to look like Liberace) and the dialogue from hunger. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 as a whole feels stretched-out, as if the filmmakers realized belatedly that there wasn't enough material in the book to sustain two movies. (There isn't). Read more
Alison Willmore, AV Club: It may be impossible for anyone but existing fans to take this seriously, but for the unconverted, it's still a legitimately engaging, gape-worthy nutso spectacle. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: Pattinson again stands around looking pale and soulful, while Lautner gets to act more, which is maybe not such a good thing. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Whenever certain actors take the lead and set the pace of the dialogue, time itself begins to crawl backward and the breaking dawn begins to feel like yesterday's breaking dawn, or last Tuesday's. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: For those of us who are not Twilight fanatics, or even fans, or could not care somewhat less than less, the arrival of Part 1 is not cause for trumpets blaring. But I would imagine that even those who line up for this film will be somewhat let down. Read more
Joy Tipping, Dallas Morning News: If you insist on seeing the entire, seemingly never-ending 117 minutes, though, you're going to spend at least 87 of those minutes bored out of your mind. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: There are a few reasons The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 1 is probably the best of the Twilight films. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Yes, I know, Twilight fans love The Twilight Saga. But they (you?) deserve something better to love. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: An eventful but bloodless first half of the smash series' finale. Read more
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: It breaks my heart to tell you that "Breaking Dawn" is broken. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: This one draws you close and keeps you there - and, for those of us who haven't read Stephenie Meyer's novel, delivers some surprising turns of plot. Read more
Rafer Guzman, Newsday: What remains is the total conviction that the ludicrous scenes are dead serious and fiercely meaningful. The result is not quite a laugh a minute, but close. Read more
Bruce Diones, New Yorker: This penultimate "Twilight" film is the best in the series so far. It's languorous, romantic, moody, and, in the end, horrifying. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: The good news? Now that all of the tedious exposition has been gotten, glacially, out of the way, "Part II" will probably be terrific. Read more
Linda Holmes, NPR: Romanticizing an intimate relationship that leaves bruises and scars is a particularly terrible idea in a film aimed at girls. Talking about this is tiresome, but then so is putting it in the movie. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Though director Bill Condon is new to the series, both he and returning screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg have an excellent grasp of their audience's desires, and are determined to meet them in good faith. Read more
Sara Stewart, New York Post: It all goes wrong just when it should go right. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: Will Condon's movie convert agnostics to Stephenie Meyer's Twilight cult? Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Here's hoping Breaking Dawn Part Two gives us more of what Part One provided in the final 30 minutes than what it forced viewers to endure to get there. Read more
Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: This is a well-made film, though sometimes unintentionally funny. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Kristen Stewart is really pretty good here, although like almost all actresses she believes pregnant women rub their baby bumps unceasingly. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: The sexless, bloodless, padded and plodding Breaking Dawn, Part 1 is the worst Twilight movie to date. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: To my taste, savvy Hollywood veteran Bill Condon debuts as director of the two-part Twilight conclusion in satisfying fashion, delivering a voluptuous if often inert spectacle that splits the difference between high camp and decadent romance. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: By any normal standard, this is a terrible movie, with stilted dialogue and leaden pacing -- every 15 minutes or so, the action stops for a musical montage involving slow-motion handsomeness. But the Twilight saga stopped being normal a long time ago. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The absurdity quotient of the movie begins high and rapidly escalates to bedlam. Read more
Jane Henderson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Director Bill Condon may have been hampered by the original material, but he does nothing to help it along. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: [It] was supposed to be climactic. Instead, it's the most jumbled and tonally confused movie yet. Read more
Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: To his credit, Condon takes this risible material as seriously as possible and makes the proceedings as stylish and creepy as he can. Read more
Anna Smith, Time Out: As a stand-alone movie it's a mixed bag. But it progresses the story of beloved characters with a reverence for the source material that will doubtlessly please Twi-hards, ushering in a finale that promises to be darker still. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Melodrama reigns in this supernatural soap opera, even though author Stephanie Meyer's tale takes a decided turn toward the weird and violent. Read more
Justin Chang, Variety: All the more disappointing, then, that a story so pregnant with dramatic possibilities should wind up feeling like such an unconsummated opportunity. Read more
Dan Kois, Village Voice: Condon delivers the most authoritatively directed Twilight film so far, which only brings into sharp relief how tonally incoherent its story is. Read more
Mark Jenkins, Washington Post: The Twilight Saga hasn't matured along with its heroine. In fact, the latest movie regresses a bit, delivering more filler, less feeling and crummier CGI than last year's Eclipse. Read more