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Film This Week in Film: The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Posted by Lindy West on Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:40 AM
It's here! Paul Constant tells you what's up:
Here’s the short version: New Moon is a much better movie than Twilight. Director Chris Weitz’s slick, showy visuals are the antithesis of Catherine Hardwicke’s awkward adaptation of the first book in the young-adult romance series, and slickness is what these books need to be translated to the screen. When Weitz throws the camera around—plunging off a cliff, or slowly circling Kristen Stewart’s sullen Bella three times to suggest the monotonous transition from fall to winter—you can almost forget the flaws of the source material.
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