Highbrow Film Critics Wave Twilight White Flag

The RottenTomatoes.com short-form, otherwise known as those excerpted review passages that a great many readers will never click beyond, is peppered today with qualifiers from top-tier critics who liked Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 1.

These folks (or presumably, in some cases, the people who post to RT for them) are taking no chances. They want everyone to know that they know liking a cheesy Twilight movie is weird.

Here’s a sampling of today’s fresh-review disclaimers:

Manohla Dargis, New York Times: “- yes, I surrendered -”

Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: “There, I said it.”

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