The Craft

critic Reviews

, 57% Rotten Tomatometer Score
  • The Craft's campy magic often overrides the feminist message at its story's core, but its appealing cast and postmodern perspective still cast a sporadic spell.
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    Chris StuckmannChrisStuckmann.com
    I really enjoy the characters. Every single one of them is very unique and the film does an excellent job at fleshing out each girl.
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    Michael WilmingtonChicago Tribune
    What can you say about a movie that seems to have been conceived like a trailer and written in exclamation points and gets stolen by the cinematographer?
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    Wally HammondTime Out
    ... deliciously dangerous excursions into adolescent self-discovery.
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    Caroline WestbrookEmpire Magazine
    Still, with suitable suspension of disbelief this makes for agreeable enough nonsense.
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    Emma ForrestIndependent (UK)
    The best teen flick since Clueless is The Craft.
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    Anne CohenRefinery29
    The great strength of The Craft is that it doesn't pass judgment on why the girls are doing what they do... The film's message of female empowerment felt cathartic, but so did its rage.
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    Sean CollierBox Office Prophets
    The Craft ... has a legacy that outweighs both its limited success and few flaws.
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    Nick LevineNME (New Musical Express)
    Set to a banging alt-rock soundtrack, it follows four teenage outcasts who begin dabbling in the dark art of witchcraft, and soon find themselves out of their depth.
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    Trace ThurmanHorror Queers Podcast
    Masquerades as a female empowerment film despite prioritizing the toxicity that can be rampant in groups of friends (female or otherwise).
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    Justin BrownMedium Popcorn
    I've never subscribed to this genre of movie...I found a lot of this stuff to just not be palatable. But for its time, it's an okay movie.
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