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

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

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

| Original Score: 4/5 | 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

The Craft, at least for its first half, plays as a satirical teen-clique horror movie -- Carrie meets early John Hughes.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011

It's a depressingly mundane affair which can't make up its mind whether it's a comedy or a teen romance or a horror thriller.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 26, 2009

Fleming's film begins promisingly as a black comedy a la Heathers, but then quickly succumbs to its machinery of special effects; this is yet another bad picture in a long list of Hollywood flops about witchcraft.

| Jun 15, 2007

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 18, 2002

It places heavy demands on its four lead actresses, who come through in impressive fashion. Director and co-writer Andrew Fleming makes sure he and his stars deliver the goods.

| Feb 14, 2001

It's Teen Witch for the Nineties: dark, brooding, dangerous, and, come to think of it, a lot like high school.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

If only The Craft were as fresh as its enchanting lead quartet.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

[The Craft] s a surprisingly skittish fable of adolescent powerlessness, grandiosity and the nursing of psychic wounds.

| Jan 1, 2000

The plot, in short, is beneath our interest. What is intriguing is that the four actresses succeed in playing their characters as realistic modern teenagers--the underside of the coin from Clueless... The movie's failure is one of imagination.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Unfortunately, this catty black comedy is buried under an onslaught of unimaginative special effects.

| Jan 1, 2000

With its sense of what can be accomplished on a small budget, The Craft suggests the classic B-horrors of the '40s particularly The Cat People and The Seventh Victim.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 3, 1996