40
Suspenseless, uninvolving and underdeveloped, it wastes the talents of an almost entirely distaff cast that deserves much stronger material.
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What are critics saying?
63
Slant Magazine by Andrew Schenker
This is one vampire film whose sexless, generic ending betrays a promise of revisionist complexity.
20
They've taken an intriguing story about female neuroses with gothic overtones and turned it into a graceless, butt-ugly attempt at Twilight-lite.
20
New York Daily News by Joe Neumaier
Director Mary Harron ("American Psycho") can do little with this bloodless drama.
40
The body count runs high at Brangwyn boarding school, but tension, surprise and viewer interest are the real casualties in The Moth Diaries.
50
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
Her (Harron) torpid adaptation of Rachel Klein's novel about female sexual desire, jealousy, death wishes, and vampires at a girls' boarding school defeats Harron's talent for exploring darkness on the edge of kinkiness.
30
There's no surer way to murder horror than to literalize it, a mistake incessantly made by The Moth Diaries.
33
Writer-director Mary 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.
70
Movieline by Stephanie Zacharek
It offers glancing pleasures of the atmospheric kind – the impact is the equivalent of a filmy cobweb brushing against your cheek. It tickles more than it bites.