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Mary F. Pols, TIME Magazine: Beautiful Creatures is good fun and I want to know what happens next for Lena the teenaged witch. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: I kind of dug "Beautiful Creatures," even if I, like most of you, am ready to drive a stake into the entire "My boyfriend/girlfriend is a vampire/werewolf/alien/zombie/Sasquatch" genre. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: This is silly stuff, but powerful all the same. Read more
Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: ...a new vision of witchery that is more playful, coherent and intelligent. If you're thinking a deep-fried, more hormonally charged Harry Potter, that's not it, but it's close to the intention at least. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: There's not much new under the moon here, which makes what the writer and director Richard LaGravenese does with the story all the more notable. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Beautiful Creatures isn't pure camp -- there's some real emotion in there. But not enough to hit you on a primal level. Read more
Rex Reed, 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. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: The movie is claimed ... by narrative incoherence, Tim Burton-envy and the usual demons of digital effects. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: You want this star-crossed couple to stick together, come what may - and that's rare enough at the movies. Read more
Tasha Robinson, AV Club: Beautiful Creatures is an oddball creation: a morality play with no basic understanding of morality. Read more
Kerry Lengel, Arizona Republic: Empowerment and powerlessness become entangled in a coming-of-age myth that could prove appealing to young women for many sequels to come. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: This fantasy about witches and warlocks walking among us was clearly produced for the Twilight crowd, but a witty script and the enjoyably hammy performances from Emma Thompson and Jeremy Irons broaden its appeal. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Irons and Thompson, whose Oscars aren't likely to get any company for their supporting turns here, at least bring the zest generally lacking from writer-director Richard LaGravenese's dutiful adaptation. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: A dash -- only a dash -- of Tim Burton ghoulishness might have helped. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: In the end, "Beautiful Creatures" is lacking in the one element it most needs: magic. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: [It] lacks danger and momentum. The audience, like Ethan, spends way too much time waiting around for Lena to learn whether she's a good girl or a bad girl. Read more
Laremy Legel, Film.com: Beautiful Creatures rests entirely upon the shoulders of leads. And in that sense, it completely works. Read more
Wesley Morris, Grantland: Beautiful Creatures is like the Twilight movies but with a chaperone making sure the boys dance a foot apart from the girls. Read more
Todd McCarthy, 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. Read more
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: The movie is an intriguing, intelligent enigma - three words not typically associated with teen romances. Read more
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: A clear bid to ignite a franchise capable of filling the hole left in teenage hearts by the end of the Twilight saga. Read more
Rafer Guzman, Newsday: In the end, "Beautiful Creatures" has one overarching problem: It's boring. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: The original young-adult book had even more going on, but filmmaker Richard LaGravenese has tried to simplify it. Even so, the movie's mythology seems confused if not outright contradictory. Read more
Joel Arnold, NPR: This surprisingly beguiling attempt to blend fantasy, coming-of-age drama, melodrama, camp and social critique isn't always successful - but it's nearly always entertaining. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: What's missing -- from the entire movie -- is that magical spark that can turn a film into a franchise. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: The comedy defuses and deflates the drama, frustrating those who would be swept away by belief. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Beautiful Creatures tries terribly hard to establish its own mythology of magic and witchcraft and Southern-fried adolescent angst. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The 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. Read more
Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: 'Beautiful Creatures' is stylish, campy fun at times. Read more
Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times: It's first and foremost a semi-plodding teen romance with supernatural overtones. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: As supernatural types, Oscar winners Jeremy Irons and Emma Thompson overact so strenuously and with such outrageously awful Southern accents that you fear the damage this crock may do to their reputations. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Plays like a funnier, edgier, Southern-gothic knockoff of the "Twilight" universe, with a distinct liberal-secular sensibility and without the virginal sexuality, po-faced seriousness or undertones of Christianity. Read more
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. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The derivative script and skimpy effects don't convey either the power or the problems of being a young witch. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Within the needlessly complicated script and CGI special-effects overkill, there are some promising moments. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: If only we could hope that Beautiful Creatures would stick to a single film or a maximum of one sequel, before its modest charms wear out. Read more
Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: That Beautiful Creatures can offer both sumptuous silliness and a teen couple whose relationship actually matters is its own particular brand of magic. Read more
Keith Uhlich, Time Out: Beautiful Creatures plays like an illustrated compendium of scenes from the novel, as opposed to a finely tuned narrative all its own. Read more
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. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: A strong cast of likable and, yes, beautiful actors can only do so much with the formula in which they're forced to work. Read more
Peter Debruge, Variety: The film ultimately plays like so much teenage girl poetry, heavy on the angst, endearingly naive in its notions of love and yet brought vividly to life by a game cast, evocative locations (both indoors and out) and stunning anamorphic lensing. Read more
Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice: Its primness aside, the movie is terrific fun and much more affecting than Twilight or Supernatural. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: A movie so schizoid in its extremes of pleasure and pain that it's hard to know how to weigh its contradictions, or even where to begin separating them. Read more