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Beautiful Creatures
Universal Pictures

Beautiful Creatures reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 40 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
9.0 out of 10
based on 22 reviews
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MPAA RATING: R for strong violence and sexuality, drug use and language

Starring Rachel Weisz, Susan Lynch, Alex Norton, Iain Glen, Maurice Roƫves, Tom Mannion, and Robin Laing

In this witty and daringly original contemporary thriller set in Glasgow, Scotland, Dorothy (Lynch) and Petula (Weisz) are two women brought together by extraordinary circumstances with only one thing in common -- they both have rotten taste in men. (Universal Focus)


GENRE(S): Suspense/Thriller  
WRITTEN BY: Simon Donald  
DIRECTED BY: Bill Eagles  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: October 2, 2001 
Video: October 2, 2001 
Theatrical: April 6, 2001 
RUNNING TIME: 92 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: UK 

What The Critics Said

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80
Washington Post Stephen Hunter
The two women relate brilliantly, and the movie has lots of fun creating an erotic subtext between them.
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80
Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
Wonderfully empowering to watch Petula and Dorothy turn the tables on their testosterone-crazed tormentors.
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75
San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Remains exciting, even as we laugh at the amateur-night antics of the women.
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70
Village Voice Amy Taubin
Dorothy and Petula leave a bloodier trail than Thelma and Louise did.
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63
New York Post Lou Lumenick
Moves at a swift clip with pungent performances.
58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
Pitches itself somewhere between "Bound" and "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels," trying to add a feminist twist to the spate of Britain's bloody gangster thrillers and never quite succeeding.
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50
Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Pretty bad, and pretty funny.
50
New Times (L.A.) Luke Y. Thompson
For folks who like a genuinely tense suspense film with heavy doses of black humor, however, this ought to do it.
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50
Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Cold and stylish, slick and violent.
50
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Would be more appealing if the women's behavior weren't alternately moronic and venal.
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50
Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Overstyled pseudo-thriller.
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40
Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
A watchable thriller.
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40
Mr. Showbiz Larry Terenzi
The only constant is the violence, which assaults rather than amuses.
40
Film.com Gemma Files
Renders the net result fairly squarely unenjoyable, on almost any level.
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38
New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
The movie veers so wildly between being zany and grim, we're left feeling more empty than entertained.
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38
USA Today Susan Wloszczyna
Vile, violent and less hip than it thinks it is.
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38
Chicago Tribune Loren King
That it is a pseudo-hip filmmaking fantasy doesn't make it any less pretentious, or any less a turnoff.
38
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
There is some dark humor in the movie, of the kind where you laugh that you may not gag.
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20
Variety Derek Elley
Plays like a movie where the script went missing on the third day of shooting.
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10
Los Angeles Times Jan Stuart
Tedious and unfunny.
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10
The New York Times Stephen Holden
Beneath its studiedly ugly surface, this bargain-basement answer to "Thelma and Louise" is as loathsome as any mindless, blood-drenched Hollywood action-adventure yarn.
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0
LA Weekly Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
Could it get any worse?
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Richard C. gave it a 9:
Rachel Weisz is just stunning, very funny a must see!!!

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