Totally adorable fresh air

| Jul 2, 2021

Overall, Beautiful Creatures is a welcome change to Twilight and a film that is actually enjoyable.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 9, 2019

there is not much magic being cast here

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 22, 2019

Beautiful Creatures also has a spiritual side, which will strike some viewers as affecting and others as cheap insurance to draw in audiences who would otherwise eschew a film that shows magic as even a sometimes good thing.

| Original Score: B | Feb 9, 2019

For the most part, it's business as usual, as Beautiful Creatures obediently follows the young-adult fiction blueprint.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 9, 2019

You might think of Beautiful Creatures as just another Twilight wannabe. I prefer to think of it as the showcase that a great British actress has been waiting for.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 15, 2018

What does matter is that Beautiful Creatures bristles with a catchy combo of wit, warmth and unworldly urgency that was never to be found in the Twilight movies.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 30, 2018

The history that is supposed to hold the lovers in a web of human and supernatural connections owes more to the History Channel than history books. But the film taps into an unexpected understanding of agency.

| Aug 21, 2018

Though Beautiful Creatures is occasionally simplistic, and definitely goofy, it's also a genuinely compassionate story of what it's like to make your first adult decisions in a world where nothing is black or white.

| May 23, 2018

The massive plus this gothic teen romance has over Twilight is that it's frequently funny - intentionally.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 1, 2017

For those still mourning the end of the Twilight series, here's something to get you back on your feet - another supernatural teen love story, with witches and warlocks replacing vampires and werewolves.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 23, 2016

It's a Southern-fried supernatural teen romance that's all empty calories and rich taste-just the thing for a Valentine's Day release.

| May 10, 2016

It never finds any kind of balance, going from tasteful but kind of dull to inane and sort of captivating.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 9, 2016

There's an air of contempt to the picture, with a lot of bored, talented people openly acknowledging that they probably should be doing something more productive with their time.

Full Review | Apr 28, 2015

Beautiful Creatures is like the Twilight movies but with a chaperone making sure the boys dance a foot apart from the girls.

| Jan 3, 2014

A superficial supernatural story that aimlessly seeks to follow in the footsteps of 'Twilight.'

| Original Score: 2.0/5 | Dec 23, 2013

May tap into familiar themes of forbidden love oppression, but it's the unique texture of the world, along with the phenomenal cast surrounding it that makes this the most promising teen supernatural drama yet.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 9, 2013

Surprisingly peppy and charming -- not transcendent of its narrowly defined genre, but a worthwhile entry in it, and not a bad film all around.

| Jul 13, 2013

A startlingly good exploration of good, evil and the perseverance of love.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 18, 2013

Beautiful Creatures is a half-filled glass of teen pablum...

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 6, 2013