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20 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100EmpireAdam SmithEmpireAdam SmithBold, gruesome and melancholic, this Gothic horrorfest offers us much to sink our teeth into: Cruise - who effectively disappears from the screen for half the film's duration - is terrific, Dunst eerily compelling, Banderas hypnotic.
- 90The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinHis sumptuous film is as strange and mesmerizing as it is imaginatively ghastly. It's a sophisticated, spookily intense rendering of Ms. Rice's story.
- 80Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumBut if you can get swept up in the story, the movie is imaginative and compelling.
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertA stronger plot engine might have drawn us more quickly to the end, but on a scene by scene basis, Interview with the Vampire is a skillful exercise in macabre imagination.
- 75ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliWhen Interview with the Vampire works, it's as compelling and engrossing a piece of entertainment as is available on film today. When it falters, the weaknesses seem magnified.
- 75Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversBut for all its visionary brilliance, the movie version of Interview never lets us close enough to see ourselves in Louis. We're dazzled but unmoved.
- 67Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovIt is, however, a very satisfying film, and surely the first in a long franchise (it does, after all, bear the subtitle The Vampire Chronicles).
- 60Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonUnfortunately, the story, adapted by Anne Rice from her best-selling novel, sucks at the neck a little too long. A 23-minute snipping from this 123-minute movie would have done wonders.
- 42Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanDramatically, though, the film is torpid.
- Lestat, like all vampires, is a bad boy frozen in time; because the role is emotionally static and one-note, it can't hold our attention unless it's played by an actor with deep reserves of mystery, elegance, and sexual power. Cruise has no such qualities.