Maleficent, the story of a sinister fairy with vengeance issues, opens with visual panache. But it fails to live up to its early promise, mostly because of an uneven tone and murky character ...

“Maleficent” wasn’t especially good, but it scared up enough money to conjure a sequel. Happily, this five-years-later follow-up, “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil,” flies a bit higher ...

But I decided to rewatch it now, in my twenties, and I have to say, I have a newfound appreciation for Aurora – and Maleficent as a whole – but today, we'll talk about the princess.

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 ...

The first Maleficent movie shed new light on old Disney villain in its retelling of the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty. Its sequel, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, which opened on Thursday, continues ...

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 ...

On one level, it’s silly to complain about Disney’s revision of Maleficent, the evil queen from its own 1959 “Sleeping Beauty.” After all, that animated classic was a highly sanitized ...

Earlier this spring, before this weekend’s release of Disney’s big-budget, live-action movie “Maleficent,” some observers were worried the film might be too scary for young viewers.

The VFX team also gave Maleficent her magic. Valdez notes that in the Christening scene during which Maleficent places a curse on Aurora (pictured at the top of this article), “we wanted to do ...

Harper's BAZAAR: What was your role on the film? Oliver Garcia: My role was to present ideas for a new direction for the design of Maleficent's character and then designing and overseeing the team ...