THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE – david slade – 2.1 / 10

The word on the street is that the third installment of The Twilight Saga is the best yet. And that’s true as far as it goes, but calling Eclipse the best of the Twilight films is like saying you’re the skinniest kid at fat camp. While it might be technically true, it’s still nothing to get excited about. Because even though there are a couple moments of actual humor in the film and a couple action sequences that aren’t patently absurd, there are still five or six other action scenes that are laughably ridiculous and the short moments of levity are far overshadowed by the hours of ponderous dialogue and wooden acting.

NEW MOON – chris weitz - 1.9 / 10

The experience of watching the second installment in what’s been dubbed, rather grandiosely, The Twilight Saga, is akin to getting kicked in the brain: disorienting and painful. It’s disorienting because there’s just no reason that something like this should have earned the shrieking adoration of millions of people, and painful because nothing in it has been crafted with any tact, subtlety or skill.