Beautiful Creatures
Universal Focus | Release Date: April 6, 2001 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
40
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
9
Negative:
8
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Washington PostStephen Hunter
The two women relate brilliantly, and the movie has lots of fun creating an erotic subtext between them. Read full review
80
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
Wonderfully empowering to watch Petula and Dorothy turn the tables on their testosterone-crazed tormentors. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Remains exciting, even as we laugh at the amateur-night antics of the women. Read full review
70
Village VoiceAmy Taubin
Dorothy and Petula leave a bloodier trail than Thelma and Louise did. Read full review
63
New York PostLou Lumenick
Moves at a swift clip with pungent performances.
58
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean 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. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Would be more appealing if the women's behavior weren't alternately moronic and venal. Read full review
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. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Pretty bad, and pretty funny.
50
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
Cold and stylish, slick and violent.
50
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Overstyled pseudo-thriller. Read full review
40
Mr. ShowbizLarry Terenzi
The only constant is the violence, which assaults rather than amuses.
40
Film.comGemma Files
Renders the net result fairly squarely unenjoyable, on almost any level. Read full review
40
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
A watchable thriller. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
The movie veers so wildly between being zany and grim, we're left feeling more empty than entertained. Read full review
38
USA TodaySusan Wloszczyna
Vile, violent and less hip than it thinks it is. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneLoren King
That it is a pseudo-hip filmmaking fantasy doesn't make it any less pretentious, or any less a turnoff.
38
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
There is some dark humor in the movie, of the kind where you laugh that you may not gag. Read full review
20
VarietyDerek Elley
Plays like a movie where the script went missing on the third day of shooting. Read full review
10
Los Angeles TimesJan Stuart
Tedious and unfunny. Read full review
10
The New York TimesStephen 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. Read full review
0
L.A. WeeklyHazel-Dawn Dumpert
Could it get any worse? Read full review
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