The Beguiled (2017)

"Sofia Coppola’s Civil War drama sees an injured Union soldier played by Colin Farrell at the mercy of Nicole Kidman and the inhabitants of her boarding school. It’s fertile ground for a modern-minded bodice-ripper, and the psychological dance between Farrell and the various women (and girls), is quietly thrilling."

"Its power is in its undercurrents, in the sense that what we're seeing isn't inevitable but a sort of worst-case scenario of genders in opposition."

"I count myself as a Coppola believer, but this may be the first film she has made in which her essential personality as a director gets buried under the movie she's making."

"An exquisitely crafted drama of seduction, survival and sexual awakening."

""Beguiled" is less a hothouse flower than a bonsai garden, a work of cool, exquisite artifice that evokes wildness on a small, controlled scale."

"Perfectly paced and terrifically engrossing, Beguiled draws the viewer in with its shifting sympathies and nuanced characters."

"Funny, sexy and scary in all the right places."

""The Beguiled" has some of the spooky, suggestive magic of a fairy tale."

"Other than to place slightly more emphasis on the female empowerment angle ... it's hard to detect a strong raison d'etre behind Sofia Coppola's slow-to-develop melodrama."

"Sofia Coppola’s career may have all been leading up to this."