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40 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlVillage VoiceAlan ScherstuhlDirector Richard LaGravenese, who also adapted the novel, lavishes the material with greater wit than its demographic demands, and the central love story feels warm-blooded—the air prickles between the leads.
- 75McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreThere’s something so delicious when Brits such as Thompson and Irons sink their fangs – sorry – into Deep South dialect. Thompson devours scenery, supporting players and dialogue with every “Bless your heart, shooo-gah” in the script, and Irons curls his non-existent mustache with every syrupy zinger.
- 75Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallTampa Bay TimesSteve PersallBeautiful Creatures gives supernatural teenage romance a good name, or at least a better one than the entire "Twilight Saga" offered.
- 70VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeFortunately, writer-director Richard LaGravenese has jettisoned most of the novel and refashioned its core mythology and characters into a feverishly enjoyable guilty pleasure.
- 63ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliThe weaknesses of Beautiful Creatures ultimately outweigh the strengths but the conviction of the central relationship is good enough to keep things from becoming laughably bad, even if it all comes apart toward the end.
- 50New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinI enjoyed this piece of southern-fried screwball Gothic whimsy (with jolts of CGI spell-casting for the multiplex crowd) so much that I’m sad to admit that it’s nowhere near as potent as "Twilight."
- 50The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyNicely cast and made with as much conviction as can be brought to something so intrinsically formulaic.
- 40Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichAs with many young-adult book-to-film series, Beautiful Creatures plays like an illustrated compendium of scenes from the novel, as opposed to a finely tuned narrative all its own.
- 0Slant MagazineCalum MarshSlant MagazineCalum MarshBeautiful Creatures basically spits in the face of a legacy of literature founded on feelings of exclusion and social alienation.