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Beautiful Creatures
Universal Pictures
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
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| 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 |

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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.

80
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Wonderfully empowering to watch Petula and Dorothy turn the tables on their testosterone-crazed tormentors.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Remains exciting, even as we laugh at the amateur-night antics of the women.

70
Village Voice
Amy Taubin
Dorothy and Petula leave a bloodier trail than Thelma and Louise did.

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.

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.

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.

50
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Overstyled pseudo-thriller.

40
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
A watchable thriller.

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.

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.

38
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
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
Roger Ebert
There is some dark humor in the movie, of the kind where you laugh that you may not gag.

20
Variety
Derek Elley
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
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.

0
LA Weekly
Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
Could it get any worse?


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