Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Bumpy Chip It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

tbills2 The Craft is a movie starring 4 (epically super cute) girls that in no way should be misconstrued as a chick flick, because, I'm a dude, and I love The Craft. It's honestly 1 of my favorite movies. It's exactly the type of film I'm into. It happens to be about witchcraft, but that's just the backdrop. The story focuses on young Sarah (the insatiably cute Robin Tunney) and her 3 teenage girl friends, Nancy (the perfectly cute-faced Fairuza Balk), Bonnie (the spiritually and physically adorably cute Neve Campbell), and Rochelle (the crazy sensually cute Rachel True) whom are all far more than just your typical high schoolers worshiping the occult (spoiler alert) - they're witches! I love The Craft so much. It speaks from the heart as well as any movie you'll find. I would love to be with each one of this super sweet woman. I love Robin in this and End of Days and Empire Records and The In-Laws and Supernova and Vertical Limit and Encino Man and Open Window. I love Fairuza in this and The Waterboy and American History X and The Island of Dr. Moreau and Almost Famous and Valmont and Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead and Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. I love Neve in this and Scream and Wild Things and Scream 2 and 54 and Drowning Mona and Three to Tango and Scream 3 and When Will I Be Loved and I Really Hate My Job and Scream 4. I love Rachel in this and Half Baked and Embrace of the Vampire and CB4 and New Best Friend and The Perfect Holiday. I looooove Rachel, Christine 2, but Robin's the prettiest. The supernatural 'light as a feather stiff as a board' scene is vintage '90s.

Fluke_Skywalker 'The Craft' is not as painfully 90s as I'd feared, but the phantom of Lollapalooza is hiding in every plaid clad shadow, like Tabitha Soren waiting to pounce on you like you're Eddie Vedder getting off a tour bus. In some ways, it might actually have benefited from some well placed 90s zeitgeist.It's a competently directed film with very solid special f/x for its time, but it's really the young quartet of talented lead actresses who carry the movie, such as it is. Particularly the lovely goth goddess Fairuza Balk, who chews through scenery in the third act like a rabid beaver.

GL84 Arriving at a new school, a teen meets up with a group of social outcasts who offer her entrance into their coven of witches, and after they grow stronger the power-mad coven are soon inciting retribution against their classmates as she tries to put an end to their reign of terror.There isn't much to the film. One of its' better features is the fact that this follows a lot of the real witch's spells and ceremonies which gives it a touch of realism as the chanting and special spells are quite realistic that allows for a touch of believability for many of those scenes. The many different spells, both good and evil are what really keep the film afloat since they start harmless and soon start affecting others. From the simple and harmless ramifications of their easier spells to the later ones that actually focus on supernatural powers are all fun to witness and believably done. The big action scene here, the final confrontation with the coven-members inside a large mansion, is quite entertaining and does offer up some big excitement along with the extraordinarily creepy sequence where almost everything in the house is covered with thousands of snakes or insects that must be crossed before heading to the final destination, is creepy, ingenious and really comes the closest to out-and-out horror. Otherwise, that's all that pretty much all that work for the film as there really isn't a whole lot to it. The only real flaw the film has is that it's really hard to feel threatened by the witches. Most of the spells are pretty much nonthreatening to others, and by removing the fact that they never really harm anyone physically, even at the end, it's really hard to feel fear of them. As the spells themselves aren't dangerous or evil, even the really dangerous ones that are performed do nothing harmful to others even when they're trying, and it makes it really hard to feel threatened by these. That becomes even worse since it spends all it's time on them, and therefore the opportunities are never there to feel that there's much to be feared of in here as simple avoidance makes for a more satisfying hindrance to their plans. It makes it really hard to supposedly be scared of witches seeking revenge when the most dangerous thing that they do is cause a person's hair to fall out. It's a big problem, and the main one in the film.Rated R: Graphic Language, Violence and attempted Rape.

michael-3204 I wanted to like The Craft more than I do. It has lots of appealing ingredients, including a pretty solid main cast and a story with lots of potential that puts young women front and center. I think my issues with it come down to tone and pacing. There are plenty of scenes that feel very natural and organic, especially those that feature the four main girls together; and then there are jarring scenes (for example, the vagrant with the snake) that seem to come from a different movie. Many of the adults (or, at least, the older actors playing adult roles, as opposed to the adult actors playing teenagers) are somewhat off, including Tunney's father and Assumpta Serna as the owner of the Wicca shop. Helen Shaver, as Fairuza Balk's trashy mother, gives the only performance that meshes well with what the teenagers are doing. Balk herself, though she excels at bringing menacing tension and unpredictability to her performance as the most unhinged of the four main girls, sometimes goes overboard with the histrionics, such as the bedroom scene with Skeet Ulrich at the party. The other girls' -- Robin Tunney, Neve Campbell and Rachel True -- performances stay more grounded through the movie, even as the increasingly unnatural events unfold. (Campbell and Ulrich, who would co-star as high school paramours in a film, Scream, that overshadowed this movie, don't have much interaction here, but I thought Ulrich was actually better -- and certainly funnier -- here as the bewitched, bothered and bewildered wanna-be boyfriend of Tunney.)All in all, the film feels like it wasn't thought through as thoroughly as it could have been. There are intriguing, post-Carrie ideas here about witchcraft and paganism as metaphors for girls' sexual development, but they don't really go anywhere even as the girls become more sexualized (and their skirts get shorter) as they become more confident in their craft. There are elements that feel forced or blunt -- such as the over-the-top overt racism shoved in True's character's face -- when a subtler approach would have been more effective and believable. There are the jarring tonal shifts that make me feel like director Andrew Fleming didn't have complete mastery of his own material. (Fleming also co-wrote the screenplay.) This is still a reasonably entertaining film with some effective scenes, memorable imagery and good performances. In more skillful hands or with more time and money, it could have been much more than that.