Sofia Coppola's New Orleans-shot Civil War drama "The Beguiled" pulled down a respectable $3.3 million in its limited release on June 30, and it continues to win praise from critics. But it's not the ...

In 2017, it’s difficult if not impossible to imagine a studio would be comfortable opening a movie with a major star like Clint Eastwood, somewhere around age 40 at the time, telling a 12-year-old ...

The cast of Sofia Coppola's "The Beguiled" including Nicole Kidman, Elle Fanning, Emma Howard, Kirsten Dunst, Oona Laurence, Angourie Rice and Addison Riecke. (Courtesy Focus Features) Sofia Coppola’s ...

In 1971 “The Beguiled,” starring Clint Eastwood, was the first R-rated film I saw, and it caused a stir in my sixth-grade elementary school class. Now Sofia Coppola remakes “The Beguiled” and turns it ...

The 1971 film “The Beguiled” has always been one of Clint Eastwood’s most curious films — both for its content and timing in the movie star’s remarkable career. The atmospheric, leisurely paced and ...

A young girl walks down a deserted wooded road, swinging a basket of mushrooms and singing a battle song. Her feet crunch in the gravel, a steady march, and cannons rumble like thunder in the distance ...

The opening of “The Beguiled” is lush on every level: Mist hangs in the moss-draped trees as a young girl goes out mushroom-picking, her singing underscored by an uncanny low rumble. We’re in the ...

The 2017 version of “The Beguiled,” directed by Sofia Coppola, is a disappointment. The 1971 film version, starring Clint Eastwood, is so much more impactful and suspenseful than the 2017 version.

Sofia Coppola's remake of the lurid 1971 Don Siegel/Clint Eastwood Civil War drama is pulp made tasteful and flavorless. Don Siegel’s 1971 Civil War drama “The Beguiled,” starring Clint Eastwood as a ...

A young girl walks down a deserted wooded road, swinging a basket of mushrooms and singing a battle song. Her feet crunch in the gravel, a steady march, and cannons rumble like thunder in the distance ...

From its very first scene, writer-director Sofia Coppola's "The Beguiled" is a study in storytelling efficiency. As the film opens, we see a young girl (actress Oona Laurence) wearing a period dress ...