The Beguiled (2017)

Drama Suspense

“The Beguiled” is an atmospheric thriller from acclaimed writer/director Sofia Coppola. The story unfolds during the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school. Its sheltered young women take in an injured enemy soldier. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries, and taboos are broken in an unexpected turn of events.... Full synopsis »

The Beguiled is why average moviegoers question movie critics. The “certifiably fresh” drama-thriller from Sofia Coppola—a remake of a Clint Eastwood movie—is well made, interesting and peculiar, but it’s a film that devotes much of its time to setting up nuanced dynamics between many of the characters only to scrap them entirely in the third act. And deliver a mildly disturbing but not disturbing enough climax. As it abruptly ends, the woman sitting in front of me declared, “Well, that was horrible.” Full movie review »

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