The Craft ... has a legacy that outweighs both its limited success and few flaws.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 21, 2021

Set to a banging alt-rock soundtrack, it follows four teenage outcasts who begin dabbling in the dark art of witchcraft, and soon find themselves out of their depth.

| May 10, 2021

Masquerades as a female empowerment film despite prioritizing the toxicity that can be rampant in groups of friends (female or otherwise).

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 30, 2020

I really enjoy the characters. Every single one of them is very unique and the film does an excellent job at fleshing out each girl.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 23, 2020

I've never subscribed to this genre of movie...I found a lot of this stuff to just not be palatable. But for its time, it's an okay movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 12, 2019

The effects are obviously a bit rough around the edges, and the acting is very mixed.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 12, 2019

Despite the fact that none of the actresses were anywhere near teen age while making the film, they're all pretty convincing as tortured teens expressing their pubescent angst through magic.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 31, 2019

I really like Fairuza Balk as an actress and I really enjoyed her here.

| Original Score: B | Mar 31, 2019

The early going is interesting, amusing and even clever, but such cinematic niceties give way to a disappointing second hour.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 21, 2019

We watched Rochelle take her own power and take her own revenge. It is one of the many reasons why The Craft was ahead of its time.

| Jan 30, 2019

At an over-long 100 minutes, it's not likely to cast a spell over anyone.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 8, 2019

[It] will perhaps inspire a few rebel kids to search out a black-magic emporium or to make the sort of fashion statements that make Balk so amusingly spooky. All others should balk at taking in this suspenseless, hollow, kitchily crafted Carrie.

| Dec 6, 2018

What can you say about a movie that seems to have been conceived like a trailer and written in exclamation points and gets stolen by the cinematographer?

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 6, 2018

It's rare enough in these days of studio megahype to be pleasantly surprised by a relatively unheralded movie, but such is the case with the second film from the director Andrew Davies

| Dec 6, 2018

... deliciously dangerous excursions into adolescent self-discovery.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2018

The Craft casts a relatively potent spell.

| Dec 6, 2018

The glossy style and neat visual effects combine with a few genuinely creepy moments to make this above-average genre fare, though the full-on sorcery showdown belongs in another movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2018

Still, with suitable suspension of disbelief this makes for agreeable enough nonsense.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2018

The best teen flick since Clueless is The Craft.

| Dec 6, 2018

The great strength of The Craft is that it doesn't pass judgment on why the girls are doing what they do... The film's message of female empowerment felt cathartic, but so did its rage.

| Dec 4, 2018