The Beguiled is a mood piece, an exercise in style and atmosphere by one of the great living visual storytellers.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 11, 2025

Methodically and dastardly, the film wishes to seduce us with a heightened intrigue of challenged sexual repression.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 16, 2024

The Beguiled plays out exactly as one might expect and never really stretches beyond its contained premise. That being said, Coppola makes full use of the scenario in terms of feminist commentary and critique, and the film looks genuinely stunning.

| Dec 5, 2023

It’s the sort of movie you let wash over you.

| May 12, 2023

The Southern Gothic vibe is almost immediately noticeable. Both look and tone convey a subtle sense of isolation and unease. From the very start everything feels a bit off-kilter and Coppola’s management of her tight, tense little world keeps it that way.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 19, 2022

Attempts to bring prestige and class to a sultry, sordid tale that should feel inherently campy. Worst of all, her remake also ignores the greater implications of the historical setting.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 23, 2022

Beautiful to gaze at, darkly funny, nerve-wracking, and features excellent actors putting in some of the best work of their careers.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 29, 2021

What's baffling is Coppola's decision to strip the piece of all nuance and all complexity.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 16, 2021

These little women are the lost specters of Charmed Southern Girlhood, incorporeal Scarlett O'Haras, forever stuck in the endless loop of knitting death shrouds and curtsies inside stiff dresses stained with soldier blood

| Jul 2, 2021

An interesting and entertaining feminist take on a story that in the past was played as a sexualized fantasy.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 1, 2021

For her part, at least Coppola is consistent. She peoples her films ... with characters presumably based on the human beings in whose circles she travels ... and imagines she has offered pronouncements on humanity as a whole.

| Feb 22, 2021

[A] fascinating examination of doing the decent human thing of helping someone who's sick and wounded regardless of a negative stereotype that may surround them.

| Nov 5, 2020

It may be a problematic film, but the substance of what's there is well worth analyzing even in light of the substance of what is not.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 25, 2020

But the film's best draw, and one that we know Coppola is extremely masterful at creating, is the sense of community and fellowship between the women in the film.

| Jul 20, 2020

The Beguiled is an interesting choice for a summer release, feeling more like an award season film...Yet, that's exactly what makes it a welcome respite during the blockbuster season.

| Jul 17, 2020

Through subtle touches, Coppola creates enough suspense to gift us with a captivating third act. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 3, 2020

Coppola offers an unattractive film, reinforced by visual prowess, but impoverished by the plot of pathetic characters. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 27, 2020

Coppola has spotted a way she can change the emphasis while remaining faithful to the source material, and the result is a tense, electric, riveting work anchored by some of the finest performances I've seen all year.

| May 11, 2020

Overall, The Beguiled is a ride worth taking.

| Mar 25, 2020

Unlike the original Beguiled, which was more erotic, pulpy and vengeful, Coppola presents an intoxicating portrait of feminine fortitude in the face of hard times.

| Jan 23, 2020