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13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Boxoffice MagazineBoxoffice MagazineWith bubbles of nascent arousal frothing at the film's feminine surface, Moth Diaries' commercial potential is likely to hinge on whether or not audiences can stand to be confronted with the confusion they felt as adolescents.
- 70MovielineStephanie ZacharekMovielineStephanie ZacharekIt 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.
- 63Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerSlant MagazineAndrew SchenkerThis is one vampire film whose sexless, generic ending betrays a promise of revisionist complexity.
- 50Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumHer (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.
- Suspenseless, uninvolving and underdeveloped, it wastes the talents of an almost entirely distaff cast that deserves much stronger material.
- 40VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangThe body count runs high at Brangwyn boarding school, but tension, surprise and viewer interest are the real casualties in The Moth Diaries.
- 33The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasWriter-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.
- 30Village VoiceNick SchagerVillage VoiceNick SchagerThere's no surer way to murder horror than to literalize it, a mistake incessantly made by The Moth Diaries.
- 20Time OutDavid FearTime OutDavid FearThey've taken an intriguing story about female neuroses with gothic overtones and turned it into a graceless, butt-ugly attempt at Twilight-lite.
- 20New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierDirector Mary Harron ("American Psycho") can do little with this bloodless drama.