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The Moth Diaries

Every girl has her secrets.

2011 · 1h 22m · R Horror, Mystery
Directed by Mary Harron

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Rebecca is a young girl who, haunted by her father’s suicide, enrolls in an elite boarding school for girls. Before long, her friendship with the popular Lucy is shattered by the arrival of a dark and mysterious new student named Ernessa, whom Rebecca suspects may be responsible for the rising body count at the school.

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Rotten

Way too serious for its own good.

Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh

Roiling with jealousy, suicide and latent lesbian urges, "The Moth Diaries" dances on the border between hallucination and reality without fully committing to either.

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Rotten

The Moth Diaries fails to frighten, titillate or otherwise engage the imagination.

Kathleen Murphy, MSN Movies
Rotten

Harron can do little with this bloodless drama, a shadow of such quiet vampire treats as "Let the Right One In" and "The Addiction."

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News
Rotten

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.

Scott Tobias, AV Club

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