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By Joy Tipping (21) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 17 Nov 2011

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…

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By Mark Jenkins (515) for Washington Post (9,851) on 17 Nov 2011

The Twilight Saga hasn't matured along with its heroine…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 17 Nov 2011

Reveals a flash or two of real filmmaking (mostly in a suggestively grotesque birthing sequence), enough to save it from pure lousiness…

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By Duane Dudek (861) for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1,693) on 17 Nov 2011

In several scenes, characters play chess, but the film itself is as complex as Chutes and Ladders, and just as suspenseful…

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By Randy Myers (265) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 17 Nov 2011

Of the four Twilight movies, Breaking Dawn -- Part I has the most going on and the most going for it…

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By Dan Kois (100) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 Nov 2011

Condon delivers the most authoritatively directed Twilight film so far, which only brings into sharp relief how tonally incoherent its story is…

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By Alex Zane (472) for The Sun (UK) (932) on 17 Nov 2011

After the enjoyable previous instalment, to my mind the best in the series, director Bill Condon's film is a step backwards in quality…

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Review of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)

By Josh Bell (1,421) for Las Vegas Weekly (1,340) on 17 Nov 2011

It's all drawn-out and flat (even more so than is typical for the franchise), delivered at a slow, plodding pace that seems designed solely…

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By Sharon Hoffmann (8) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 17 Nov 2011

Fangirls, you have nothing to be ashamed of…

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Review of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)

By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 17 Nov 2011

A satisfying culmination of emotions that have been building in this supernatural fantasy saga as Bella the human and Edward the vampire marry…

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By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Nov 2011

Intended as the cinematic equivalent of an orgasm, this tirelessly hyped insta-blockbuster is loaded with OMG developments (marriage! Sex…

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By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 17 Nov 2011

It's like Roadhouse for women. As irresistible as it is ridiculous…

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By Kent Turner (504) for School Library Journal (73) on 17 Nov 2011

It makes you wonder if splitting the book in two parts was such a good idea…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 17 Nov 2011

Start hating me now, Twihards, but the sexless, bloodless, padded and plodding Breaking Dawn, Part 1 is the worst Twilight movie to date…

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By Matt Patches (283) for Hollywood.com (1,014) on 17 Nov 2011

Sexy, silly, scary and stupid, the movie's tonal balancing act amounts to an Evil Dead for tween romantics…

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By Steve Persall (1,105) for Tampa Bay Times (1,287) on 17 Nov 2011

Breaking Dawn Part 1 confirms suspicions that all four books could've made a heck of a single movie…

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Review of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 17 Nov 2011

Considering that this is the book where Stephanie Meyers's sexual repression finally lets rip in a totally weird tale ...the movie adaptation…

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Review of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)

By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 17 Nov 2011

The good news? Now that all of the tedious exposition has been gotten, glacially, out of the way, Part II will probably be terrific…

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Review of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)

By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 17 Nov 2011

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…

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Review of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)

By Emma Dibdin (195) for Total Film (3,532) on 17 Nov 2011

[An] oddly joyless affair centred on an 18-year-old girl voluntarily destroying herself from the inside out, this might work as a standalone…

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