Rotten
Despite its pluses, despite trying to do all the right things, Twilight comes up lacking in both energy and plot, two areas that no noir, geezer or otherwise, can afford to be caught short in.
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Twilight
Some people can buy their way out of anything. Except the past.
1998 · 1h 34m · R
Crime, Thriller
Directed by
Robert Benton
Overview
A retired detective accepts a simple task, unaware that it will tear open old, forgotten, but deadly wounds.
Director and cast
- Robert Benton Director
- Paul Newman as Harry Ross
- Susan Sarandon as Catherine Ames
- Gene Hackman as Jack Ames
- Reese Witherspoon as Mel Ames
- Stockard Channing as Lt. Verna Hollander
- James Garner as Raymond Hope
- Giancarlo Esposito as Reuben Escobar
- Liev Schreiber as Jeff Willis
- Margo Martindale as Gloria Lamar
- John Spencer as Capt. Phil Egan
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
61%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The movie's story is too obvious in its message, and too absurd in its plotting.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
Whenever Newman, Sarandon and Hackman are in the same scene, there's something like 107 years of film-acting is up there on the screen, and it shows.
Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle
Fresh
Though the mystery doesn't need nearly that long to unravel, from moment to moment, the performances are all so good that it's easy to overlook the plot's flimsiness.
Charles Taylor, Salon.com
Rotten
This is a B-movie screenplay with an A-level cast and crew.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
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