In The Beguiled, Clint Eastwood trades his tough-guy persona for vulnerability, exploring power dynamics and survival in a ...

Not to be confused with the 1971 film of the same name starring Clint Eastwood, The Beguiled is an American Southern Gothic psychological thriller released in 2017. A lot of people missed it, and that ...

Corporal McBurney (Colin Farrell) and Edwina (Kirsten Dunst) share a charged dinner confrontation, exposing deeper truths ...

The story of The Beguiled shows in full detail how we are often subject to the basest of human instincts regardless of our surroundings. A Yankee soldier, having been wounded in battle and unable to ...

“The Beguiled” is an interesting film that should not be mistaken for a good film, though it probably will be. Unlike some routine release, it is guided by a particular and distinct vision and is very ...

Kirsten Dunst stars in "The Beguiled" as a teacher. In "The Beguiled," set at the Miss Martha Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies, eponymous headmistress (Nicole Kidman), teacher Edwina (Kirsten ...

Nicole Kidman and Colin Ferrell in the “The Beguiled,” which is set in the Civil War South but explores a world removed from the war. Sofia Coppola’s “The Beguiled” has the same rough shape as the ...

Best of Chicago 2025 Credit: Cover and section photography by Kirk Williamson. Creative direction and prop styling by Shira Friedman-Parks, Amber Huff, and Kirk Williamson. Design by Corianton Hale.

Carolyn Jenkins is a voracious consumer of film and television. She graduated from Long Island University with an MFA in Screenwriting and Producing where she learned the art of character, plot, and ...