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Beautiful Creatures
2013 124 min United States of America PG-13 12+
★5.8
Fantasy, Drama, Romance
Director: Richard LaGravenese
🎭 Based on
«Beautiful Creatures»
byKami Garcia
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Description
Ethan Wate just wants to get to know Lena Duchannes better, but unbeknownst to him, Lena has strange powers. As Lena's 16th birthday approaches she might decide her fate, to be good or evil. A choice which will impact her relationship forever.
Budget:
$60M
US Gross:
$19.45M
Worldwide:
$60.05M
Starring
Alice Englert
Actor
Viola Davis
Actor
Alden Ehrenreich
Actor
Awards
9 nominations total
Key opinion
Beautiful Creatures is a divisive young-adult fantasy that earns praise for its grounded lead performances and atmospheric visual design, yet suffers from a disjointed narrative and reliance on recycled genre tropes. While some viewers appreciate its sincerity and departure from Twilight-style melodrama, others find the world-building clichéd and the pacing uneven.
| Production | Production design effectively crafts a moody, gothic aesthetic through detailed sets and striking costuming. | |
| Acting | Lead actors Alden Ehrenreich and Alice Englert provide a humanizing, sincere groundedness that helps the romance feel more authentic than typical genre entries. | |
| Screenplay | Opinions on the screenplay are divided: supporters enjoy the sharp, witty dialogue and literary references, while critics argue the plot is plagued by holes, filler, and predictable moral binaries. | |
| Pacing | The film's pacing is criticized for being inconsistent, with an engaging, well-paced first half giving way to a bloated and uneven second half. | |
| Adaptation | Viewers are split on the adaptation fidelity; some appreciate the film's willingness to diverge from the source material for narrative flow, while others view it as a poor and unfaithful representation of the novels. |