Beautiful Creatures Reviews
Top CriticWriter and coproducer Simon Donald offers an efficient plot, and director Bill Eagles knows how to pace the actors and action while delivering it.
Filmcritic.com
Engaging and successful for fans of the genre
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| Original Score: 4/5
Ottawa Citizen
Always surprising and the performances are carefully calibrated.
A stylish film that is a fun ride despite a script that offers few surprises.
The women operate at different speeds, contrast well and make a likable duo.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Philadelphia City Paper
A heady, if somewhat harsh and narrowly focused, deconstruction of all those popular boy movies that have their cake and eat it too.
BBC
At least nobody could accuse the director Bill Eagles or his writer Simon Donald of mealy-mouthed timidity.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Greg's Previews at Yahoo! Movies
...an entertaining and darkly clever little British crime film, giving the spotlight to the girlfriends of the hoods instead
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| Original Score: 3/4
Jam! Movies
A sort of Trainspotting For Girls -- down and dirty, speedily paced, violent and humorous.
New Times
For folks who like a genuinely tense suspense film with heavy doses of black humor ... this ought to do it.
Weisz exhibits a hitherto undisclosed gift for physical comedy.
Bay Area Reporter
a sweet, violent B-movie funfest that strays from perfection here and there, yet still leaves you with a fond feeling for killing penised bullies
Irish Times
Baseline.Hollywood.com
Beautiful Creatures lacks the snarky attitudinal tone of Shallow Grave but, thanks mostly to the lead performances, the film does have some spark.
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| Original Score: 3/5
