Metacritic Film

Beautiful Creatures

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

MPAA RATING: R for strong violence and sexuality, drug use and language

Universal Pictures
Suspense/Thriller
92 minutes | Color
UK
Released In Theaters April 6, 2001

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)

WRITTEN BY
Simon Donald

DIRECTED BY
Bill Eagles

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

40 / 100

Critic Reviews

80 Washington Post
The two women relate brilliantly, and the movie has lots of fun creating an erotic subtext between them.
80 Washington Post
Wonderfully empowering to watch Petula and Dorothy turn the tables on their testosterone-crazed tormentors.
75 San Francisco Chronicle
Remains exciting, even as we laugh at the amateur-night antics of the women.
70 Village Voice
Dorothy and Petula leave a bloodier trail than Thelma and Louise did.
63 New York Post
Moves at a swift clip with pungent performances.
58 Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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.
50 Wall Street Journal
Pretty bad, and pretty funny.
50 New Times (L.A.)
For folks who like a genuinely tense suspense film with heavy doses of black humor, however, this ought to do it.
50 Philadelphia Inquirer
Cold and stylish, slick and violent.
50 TV Guide
Would be more appealing if the women's behavior weren't alternately moronic and venal.
50 Entertainment Weekly
Overstyled pseudo-thriller.
40 Chicago Reader
A watchable thriller.
40 Mr. Showbiz
The only constant is the violence, which assaults rather than amuses.
40 Film.com
Renders the net result fairly squarely unenjoyable, on almost any level.
38 New York Daily News
The movie veers so wildly between being zany and grim, we're left feeling more empty than entertained.
38 USA Today
Vile, violent and less hip than it thinks it is.
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
There is some dark humor in the movie, of the kind where you laugh that you may not gag.
20 Variety
Plays like a movie where the script went missing on the third day of shooting.
10 Los Angeles Times Jan Stuart
Tedious and unfunny.
10 The New York Times
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.
0 LA Weekly
Could it get any worse?

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