Heavenly Creatures 1994

Janet Maslin, New York Times: Stylish and eerily compelling before it overplays its campy excesses, Heavenly Creatures does have a feverish intensity to recommend it. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Unlike the campy excess of Jackson's earlier Dead Alive, deliberate overkill ltimately points toward a dearth of ideas rather than a surfeit. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Lynskey and Winslet are extraordinary actresses. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Revealed in unforgettable fashion by a capable director, the events that unfold in this film are not easily forgotten. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: What makes Jackson's film enthralling and frightening is the way it shows these two unhappy girls, creating an alternative world so safe and attractive they thought it was worth killing for. Read more

Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: An unforgettable experience. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Acted with conviction, and directed and written with febrile vibrancy. Read more

David Rooney, Variety: Combines original vision, a drop-dead command of the medium and a successful marriage between a dazzling, kinetic techno-show and a complex, credible portrait of the out-of-control relationship between the crime's two schoolgirl perpetrators. Read more

Hal Hinson, Washington Post: Powerful, evocative movie. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Jackson (who wrote the script with Frances Walsh) evokes the girlsa(TM) fantasy world with scenes featuring plasticene figures, creating an eerie, metaphysical dimension to the movie. Read more