While it is always a pleasure to watch such heavyweights hold the screen together ... they deserved far more for their efforts than an emaciated potboiler that finally boils dry.
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01/01/00
Twilight (1998)
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Reviews Counted:52
Fresh:32
Rotten:20
Average Rating:6.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: As in his 1977 film THE LATE SHOW, Robert Benton focuses on a private detective who's playing the back nine. With the passing of a quarter century, however, the director's tone had grown more... [More]
Starring: Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, Stockard Channing
Director: Robert Benton
Reviews for Twilight
Top CriticA frustratingly muddled film.
01/01/00
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06/24/06
Top CriticThe movie has a hazy, sleepy, and sad look that reminded me (favorably) of Chinatown. Brilliant.
05/26/06
Too much of it feels like a movie made by geezers, with geezers and for geezers.
01/01/00
Drably conventional and obvious.
01/01/00
This is a B-movie screenplay with an A-level cast and crew.
01/01/00
Twilight, though set in contemporary L.A., has a nostalgic aura. It doesn't rush its story, allowing the viewer to get to know its protagonists as it ambles along.
01/01/00
In the diminishment of his life, an elder nurtures magnanimity and wears it well.
03/02/02
Superb cast
01/01/00
Twilight is curiously missing the one element that should be a mystery-thriller's stock-in-trade: the element of surprise.
01/01/00
Robert Benton's direction is strong with careful attention to shots and minutiae, giving the film's actors the chance to show off their inner workings with the flick of a lighter or the tremble of a hand.
01/01/00
The movie's story is too obvious in its message, and too absurd in its plotting.
01/01/00
Top CriticDirector Robert Benton and cowriter Richard Russo have embellished the script with witty repartee that bears comparison with the best of Chandler and Hammett.
01/28/02
A meditative, unusually rewarding little flick.
01/01/00
Twilight sometimes lacks the tension or energy of a good thriller, but its reflective mood and poignancy more than compensate.
01/01/00
Imagine a Medicare version of the private eye Paul Newman played in both “Harper” (1966) and “The Drowning Pool” (1976), and you have “Twilight.”
01/02/03
While the movie is often unconvincing and painfully slow, it offers valuable insights into the cares of older people who no longer are given the opportunity for career adventure and who therefore must rely on themselves to make their own fun.
01/01/00
Writer-director Robert Benton's storyline in Twilight is routine, just another Hollywood cops 'n' robbers saga tinged with film noirish elements. But the cast is unique for a 1990s thriller.
01/01/00
Writer-director Robert Benton obviously intended to paint this neo-noir in somber tones, but he's succeeded beyond what's good for his movie.
01/01/00
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