Reviews for this film from our members:
- Dragan Antulov @ Draxblog VI [Croatian]
- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: While the film takes liberties with the story we all know, it has a strong atmosphere, great nods to fantasy worlds and a knowing performance by Angelina Jolie that makes Maleficent enjoyable if nothing more.
- Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Kevin Carr @ 7M Pictures
- Excerpt: As Maleficent’s movie, “Maleficent” works. However, if Angelina Jolie is not there to carry the scene, it’s a chore to watch.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Falling into the same trap as “Oz the Great and Powerful,” Woolverton’s revisionist take uses the spurned love of a supernatural female as the catalyst for an evil makeover and makes a muddle of the original Sleeping Beauty tale in the process.
- Carlos del Río @ El rincón de Carlos del Río [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Sobresaliente en lo visual, no tanto en lo narrativo.
- Billy Donnelly @ This Is Infamous
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: Whatever point the movie is making … is lost in a narrative that is over-reliant on establishing.
- [New – 1/1/15] | Dustin Freeley @ Movies About Gladiators
- Excerpt: For the second time in two years, Disney tries to fix the wrongs in the trope of “true love.”
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Darkly dazzling – but because of intense, sometimes terrifying imagery, it should be PG-13 not PG.
- Steven Greydanus @ National Catholic Register
- Excerpt: Warmed-over Frozen.
- Vadym Grygoriev @ kinoblog.com [Ukrainian]
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Angelina Jolie is obviously enjoying the role with an exhilarated air that is contagious. Whether it be with an arched brow or a curl of the lips, her scenery chewing performance commands your attention with her stylized manner.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: http://www.flickfilosopher.com/2014/05/maleficent-movie-review-fatal-enchantment-know-kids.html
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: Horns and all, “Maleficent” is built and soars around one item: Angelina Jolie’s deliciously fun, indelibly spicy portrayal.
- Kristin Dreyer Kramer @ NightsAndWeekends.com
- Dan Lybarger @ KCActive.com
- Excerpt: With only her voice and her sense of bearing, Jolie effortlessly makes the notoriously wicked fairy seem real. Hardly anyone else involved in Maleficent seems to have that magic.
- Jana Monji @ Examiner.com
- Pat Mullen @ Cinemablographer
- Excerpt: Angelina Jolie upholds her title as the reigning Queen of Badassdom
- Frank Ochieng @ Focus Magazine of SWFL
- Excerpt: However, despite Maleficent’s visual opulence and the A-list presence of Oscar-winner Angelina Jolie as the curvaceous and infamous force behind the cursed pillow-hugging platitudes of Princess Aurora this live-action fantasy just does not live up to its flamboyant whimsy.
- Jason Pirodsky @ Expats.cz
- Excerpt: A striking, sultry movie-star performance by Angelina Jolie anchors Disney’s Maleficent, a CGI-infused take on the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale that purports to spin the story on its head by telling it from the point of view of its chief villain, the titular evil queen who curses an infant princess on the day she’s born.
- Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: Angelina Jolie is the reason to see Maleficent; the movie practically rises and falls on the power of her performance. Jolie is so good in the title role of Maleficent, that you wish she were cast in a better movie.
- Tom Santilli @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: “Maleficent the film, is a celebration of all things vanilla.”
- Josh Spiegel @ Sound on Sight
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: There’s an abundance of visual magic, but not much of any other sort in Disney’s revisionist take on the ‘Sleeping Beauty’ villainess.
- Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: Practically every scene in this wonderful film comes across as an intriguing work of art.
- Mel Valentin @ ScreenInvasion.com
- Excerpt: Style (and Jolie) Over Substance
- Phil Villarreal @ COED.com
- Andrew Wyatt @ Look/Listen (St. Louis Magazine)
- Excerpt: Jolie’s villainous laugh is suitably fiendish, but it’s her splendid little sideways glances and pointed “Hm”s that make the performance a treat.
