The supernatural-themed, teen-targeted movie Beautiful Creatures is being marketed as the new Twilight. This is a mistake on multiple levels. First, for movie critics, this is like being told a new ...

You might think of “Beautiful Creatures” as just another “Twilight” wannabe. I prefer to think of it as the showcase that a great British actress has been waiting for. The biggest surprise of the ...

The supernatural romance could well have foundered amid its unwieldy mix of dark magic and Dixie camp. But it somehow succeeds — especially when... Calling Beautiful Creatures a Southern-fried ...

When writer-director Richard LaGravenese told the authors of the Beautiful Creatures series of young-adult novels that he wanted to make a movie of their books, they had one overriding concern. The ...

It goes without saying that films are composed of a dense coagulation of influences, some more transparent than others, but a curious pattern emerges in Beautiful Creatures, an insipid crime comedy ...

The 2010s were a great decade for franchise films. During these years, the MCU saw its golden age, the Mission: Impossible series released three great outings, and Hollywood produced an avalanche of ...

The trend of post-apocalyptic, tween-targeted, blood-sucking movie romances based on books had been exhausted, until "Beautiful Creatures" resuscitated the emerging genre if only for a brief ...

Beautiful Creatures, based on the novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, takes a much more direct route into the fantasy romance world of Twilight. We get the shy, pretty girl, the handsome boy and ...

The YA adaptation boom of the 2010s is a fascinating time, filled with potential franchises that never took off, some that lingered far beyond their expiration date, and others that remained ...