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Beautiful Creatures

2013

Richard LaGravenese

Alden Ehrenreich, Alice Englert, Jeremy Irons, Viola Davis ...

4.6

4,926

Romance. Drama. Fantasy Supernatural star-crossed romance, a small town full of secrets, and a dash of Southern gothic intrigue. That’s the recipe for Beautiful Creatures, the latest movie offering for theTwilight set. Richard LaGravenese (P.S. I Love You) wrote and directed the South Carolina-set adaptation of Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl‘s young adult novel, the first in a trilogy of books. In development since 2009, Creatures recently started shooting in ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"This romp into the occult has a potent sense of humor. That comic edge and strong dialogue raises the movie's quality over most teen romances (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Richard Roeper rogerebert.com	"'Beautiful Creatures' has a much better sense of humor about itself than the "Twilight" movies, with most of the grown-up actors delivering performances leaning more toward the devilishly campy than the straightforward and dramatic (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune	"While it's never quite as spellbinding as its witchcraft-themed story line promises, 'Beautiful Creatures' is a welcome addition to the ranks of paranormal teen romance (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Rex Reed The New York Observer	"More laughs are expected in the next two installments of what threatens to become a trilogy. It's early, but I'm already making plans to be out of town"	NEG
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"A concoction that makes highly calculated use of fantasy, fates, taboos, young love and visual hocus-pocus to ensnare an audience in a narrative web that's pretty darn ridiculous"	NEG

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