The Beguiled (Focus Features, R)
The Beguiled is a beautifully realized film.
The Beguiled is a beautifully realized film.
This movie isn’t worth anyone’s time.
Director Craig Gillespie does a terrific job of balancing serious storytelling with the fact that a vampire hiding out in Las Vegas is absolutely absurd.
The cast is superb and overshadows the glaring plot deficiencies and poor storytelling.

Ondine works best when it stays in the dreamy realm of enchantment: when it ventures into the messy realities of modern life among the poor it becomes more pedestrian.
Director Martin McDonagh is better known as a playwright who perfectly captures the colloquial dialogue of his Irish homeland.
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