Read the following reviews on the Twilight Books and answer:
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| Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
On screen, Twilight is repetitive and a tad sodden, too prosaic to really soar. But Hardwicke stirs this teen pulp to a pleasing simmer.
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75
| San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub
Twilight has a few gory plot turns - mostly offscreen - and one near-sex scene that may offend a few Amish people, but the rest is maybe 33 percent less wholesome than "High School Musical." It's almost certainly less risque than what you were watching when you were 14. (Cue the soundtrack to "Risky Business.")
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75
| Boston Globe Ty Burr
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.
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75
| Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Twilight - directed with savvy humor by Catherine Hardwicke - turns vampirism into a metaphor for teen lust.
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70
| Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Hardwicke has connected so intensely to the Meyer novel that it's hard to imagine anyone else making a better version.
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63
| Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Twilight will mesmerize its target audience, 16-year-old girls and their grandmothers. Their mothers know all too much about boys like this.
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63
| Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Bummer. The vampires have no fangs. The humans are humdrum. The special effects and makeup define cheeseball. And the movie crowds in so many characters from Stephenie Meyer's book that Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen) is less a director than a traffic cop. But there's a reason that Twilight has already become the movie equivalent of a bestseller: The love story has teeth.
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60
| New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
It's disappointing when a big-screen romance can't match up to the one in your imagination, at any age.
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60
| The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
An underwhelming vampire romance long on camp but short on emotional insight
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1- List words used in these reviews that have a positive meaning as for example : interesting. 2- List words with negative meaning as for example: disappointing 3- Which review do you agree with? Why? Have you seen or read any of the Twilight movies or books? 4- Using these reviews as models write a brief review on the last book or movie you have seen. Dictionary link: http://ilikethisbloggymuch.blogspot.com.es/search/label/Project%20task%3A%20English%20dictionaries. |