The animated Maleficent does not give one flying fuck about popping into the middle of a heavily guarded party, outnumbered hundreds to one, to place the curse on the guest of honor, an infant.

Archetype subversion and feminist deconstruction, of course, do not in themselves a great movie make, and while “Maleficent” passes the Bechdel test with flying colors, it also has its fair ...

The casting of Jolie as Maleficent was genius, so much so that I can’t imagine anyone else in the role. The film was also a visual feast and the flying scenes in particular were amazing ...

Maleficent muddies those waters in ways that ... doing magic things with her long fingers like sending humans flying, turning creatures into other creatures the better to do battle, and putting ...

Angelina Jolie’s “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil” is heading for an opening weekend of about $35 million at 3,790 North American locations — significantly below forecasts, early estimates ...

“This story is not quite the one you were told,” a soothing voice-over tells us, and indeed it isn’t: We meet Maleficent as a child fairy, flying happily through her beloved ...

Maleficent is a well-intentioned, but unevenly executed endeavor. It feels as though Disney built a film around the tantalizing notion of Angelina Jolie playing this at once beloved and reviled ...

She is the meanest woman ever to get her own plush toy. Maleficent, the wicked fairy from “Sleeping Beauty” who condemns the infant Princess Aurora to die, is the protagonist of a new movie ...

This time around, the studio put the focus on the 1959 classic's main villain, Maleficent (Angelina Jolie, in one of her best movie roles), in a self-titled prequel film. The Robert Stromberg ...