Writer and coproducer Simon Donald offers an efficient plot, and director Bill Eagles knows how to pace the actors and action while delivering it.

| Apr 12, 2010

The well of surprise is all but parched in the post-Tarantino seriocomic crime caper genre.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 4, 2010

[I]ntermittently amusing, it devolves into a finale that is ultimately preposterous. Still, fans of blood-and-guts comedy will enjoy.

| Nov 19, 2008

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 16, 2005

The main problems with Beautiful Creatures lie in execution -- the film's baser machinations come across as nothing more than indie film quirks.

| Original Score: C | Feb 17, 2003

More Tom and Jerry than Thelma and Louise.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 30, 2003

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 8, 2002

A black comedy triggered with snide Guy Ritchie type of lowbrow British humor that is not as clever as it thinks it is.

| Original Score: D | Dec 26, 2001

Full Review | Original Score: 78/100 | Nov 20, 2001

Engaging and successful for fans of the genre

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 24, 2001

Always surprising and the performances are carefully calibrated.

| Jun 20, 2001

Style doesn't count for much if you just don't care.

Full Review | May 11, 2001

Emits an aura of contrived cool.

Full Review | Apr 27, 2001

Suffers from familiarity -- this whole genre should take a well-deserved rest.

Full Review | Apr 27, 2001

Too much style and not enough of anything else.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 27, 2001

A fun, Bound-like off-kilter psycho-dance.

| Apr 26, 2001

The dialogue is banal and the characters are irritatingly dumb.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 24, 2001

Full of sharp ideas but undermined by blunt-headed characters and logistical loopholes.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 23, 2001