3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[This is] the series' most balanced and fun vam-rom-drama. Twihards will embrace it as the first installment to live up to their imaginations..."
Box Office

"THE TWILIGHT SAGA finally nails just the right tone in ECLIPSE, a film that neatly balances the teenage operatic passions from Stephenie Meyer's novels with the movies' supernatural trappings."
Hollywood Reporter

"[T]he production, under David Slade's workmanlike direction, takes several time-outs -- or time-ins, depending on your bloodlust level -- for bluntly efficient if familiar battles."
Wall Street Journal

3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he TWILIGHT series does have its own sort of mystical magic in the way it blends teenage angst with epic political conflicts."
Los Angeles Times

"[I]t's feelings aren't fake, adn the movie is compulsively watchable; it has a passionflower intensity." -- Grade: B+
Entertainment Weekly

"Kristen Stewart's Bella displays a truly impressive range of expressions of troubled introspection..."
Sight and Sound

3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his is a good deal tauter, wittier and darker than NEW MOON..."
Total Film