The Beguiled

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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