Beautiful Creatures Reviews
Cinema Crazed
I wanted to know more about the Casters, and hopefully we'll get a sequel to round out the mythos better.
Seven Days
This is a perfectly solid coming-of-age fantasy, closer in spirit to 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' than to the recent spate of Stephenie Meyer clones.
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| Original Score: 6/10
Aisle Seat
I found myself growing incredibly bored by the film. Nothing was new or fresh enough to earn my interest.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Triple J
Who would've thought that Emo Witches and Satanic Southern MILFS could end up being so entertaining?
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| Original Score: 4/5
3AW
Any hope of tapping into the Twilight vibe is pretty much neutered by the film's haphazard storyline, stuttering pace and inordinate length.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Movies.com
...much weirder, cooler and knowing, more in league with something like The Perks of Being a Wallflower than anything Stephenie Meyer will ever create. It doesn't aim higher; it aims in several competing, uncharted directions.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Times-Picayune
Trying to become the next "Twilight," it is a better film in most respects than any entry in that franchise - although that's damning it with faint praise.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Rip It Up
Director Richard LaGravenese helms this dark-magic romantic fantasy, and it's surprisingly better than the unfair label with which it's been slapped (yep, you know the one: it just wants to be another damn Twilight)
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Laramie Movie Scope
There are some impressive special effects in the film, but these are used sparingly. The main story is the love affair, and it is surrounded by so much acting talent that the rest of the story works.
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| Original Score: B
ABC Radio Brisbane
We rush through the background of the characters with the focus more on building the lovey-dovey relationship between Ethan and Lena.
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| Original Score: C+
The Sun Herald
LaGravenese elicits some wonderfully hammy turns, particularly from Irons and Thompson, although a tighter edit wouldn't have gone amiss
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| Original Score: 6/10
Tolucan Times
Alice Englert and Alden Ehrenreich give performances that make this thing worth seeing. Given that the story is preposterous, it's entertaining enough to keep you awake most of the time.
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| Original Score: 5/10
The Mercury
While this movie easily has more charm than the cynically produced Twilight films, it somehow lacks the charisma.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Interesting settings and costumes plus plus weird ghostly stuff can't save this fantasy romance. Still, Alden Ehrenreich and Alice Englert seem sincere and committed to their co-starring roles here.
Sydney Morning Herald
The problem is tone. LaGravenese lets the English have their heads, while the young Americans moon and kiss and frown like they mean it.
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| Original Score: 3/5
At the Movies (Australia)
[Alice Englert] really is a terrific new star presence.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
At the Movies (Australia)
It's the pleasing nature of the two young central characters that gives the film its heart and its ballast.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Trespass
It is the encompassing mythology that is muddied and murky, complete with misogynistic renderings of female sexuality that the mystical packaging can't overcome.
Movie Chambers
"Beautiful Creatures" is a supernatural southern-fried teen romance that's a bit on the corny side and far from scary.
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| Original Score: C-
