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Beautiful Creatures

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Movie Info

Genre(s): Suspense/Thriller

Written by: Simon Donald

Directed by: Bill Eagles

Release Date:
Theatrical: April 6, 2001
DVD: October 2, 2001

Running Time: 92 minutes, Color

Origin: UK

Summary

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)

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

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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