Coppola has inverted the old order of sexploitation and Farrell has been reduced to a sex object. He just looks like a very happy one.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 11, 2017

The Beguiled is well worth seeing but it's also just as worthy of being taken to task for its shortcomings.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 22, 2017

The Beguiled has a strong story to tell. Unfortunately, it's too wrapped up in Sofia Coppola's naïveté and hubris to be anything more.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 18, 2017

Fans of Siegel's film may bridle at Coppola's reinterpretation, but those who have swooned at Coppola's distinctive back catalogue will find themselves right at home.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 16, 2017

If you're unfamiliar with the original, this tasteful and undeniably beautiful film may well beguile you.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2017

This is clever, tense, gripping, told at a lick -- it's less than 90 minutes -- and while revenge is a dish best served cold, it's pretty good served this way too.

| Jul 14, 2017

Sofia Coppola can't help but bring one refreshing element: a female eye. The camera in her version of The Beguiled expresses and inhabits the women's isolation... while her delicate touch as a director keeps the mood frisky even at its most fraught.

| Jul 14, 2017

If it lacks the juicy, hysterical appetite of Siegel's original adaptation, the film has a resolute restraint that pays off in an intriguing ambiguity.

| Jul 14, 2017

Frankly, my dears, you will give a damn.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2017

A slightly sleazy Clint Eastwood vehicle from 1971, also called The Beguiled, gets an arthouse remake from Sofia Coppola for no discernible reason.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 14, 2017

Coppola's remake is more contemplative and psychologically complex than the original, as well as more suspenseful.

| Jul 13, 2017

It's stylish, lord knows: Old Colonial sets, a ton of backlighting and mock-liturgical music doing the full Monteverdi. The cast is classy. The script has moments.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 13, 2017

It's a strange, twisted tale about the perversion of sexual longing, embellished with psychological power shifts and swiftly changing alliances edged with black humour.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 13, 2017

This is Southern Gothic at its most lush and delirious. It is also very comic in its own macabre way. Coppola conjures up a wonderfully fervid atmosphere.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 12, 2017

If you allow yourself to give in to The Beguiled's enchanting spell, you might find yourself converted to Coppola's cause.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 12, 2017

Coppola's screenplay meticulously softens or eliminates everything that was bold and frightening about Don Siegel's 1971 film version.

| Jul 11, 2017

Coppola's most traditional film to date is a heightened, darkly comic, sexually tense drama that flips the male gaze, to show what happens when a man, for once, gets caught in the crosshairs of desire.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 11, 2017

The general view seems to be that civilization might survive and even flourish if men weren't around to wreck it with their making of love and war, but where's the fun in that?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 7, 2017

The Beguiled is better directed than it is written... In its study of interpersonal rivalry and sexual tension, the film doesn't say anything that wasn't better articulated in Don Siegel's 1971 adaptation.

| Jul 7, 2017

The Beguiled is Coppola's bloodiest, most visceral movie to date, and it is also one of her best.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 30, 2017