MOVIE REVIEW “MALEFICENT: MISTRESS OF EVIL” Rated PG. At AMC Loews Boston Common, Regal Fenway Stadium and suburban theaters. Grade: C “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil,” a sequel to the ...

Disney’s Maleficent, which has already grossed $4.2 million in Thursday-night North American screenings and $20.1 million in its first two days overseas, is a stylized retelling of the studio ...

After nearly four months of Maleficent remaining grounded, she once again rises into the air during "Fantasmic!" at ...

Review: 'Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil' Is A Sequel With Clipped Wings This "extremely weird" sequel to the 2014 film that riffed on Disney's Sleeping Beauty shunts its main character off-screen ...

"Maleficent: Mistress of Evil" is less fun, romantic and engaging than its 2014 predecessor — which was only adequate. And while Angelina Jolie is still regal and snarky, she's barely in this ...

Before you can say “deplorables,” Maleficent goes postal on her human guests and King John (Robert Lindsay) lies comatose, seemingly trapped by another one of Maleficent’s debilitating spells.

In our post-“Wicked” fantasy universe, where every old-time wicked witch must turn out to be misunderstood, “Maleficent” presents, side by side, an atrocious human kingdom and a blissful ...

Maleficent’s plan is to keep the Prince alive and well, until he’s too old for Aurora. To let him sit in misery for 100 years until she releases him as an old man.

But just when it seems like all hope is lost for Maleficent, she’s rescued by Chiwetel Ejiofor, who nurses her back to help in a tribe of her own people. “You spent years caring for a human.

And so “Maleficent,” for all its pleasurable, forward-thinking engagement with an antiquated fairy tale, cannot ultimately supplant or improve upon it.

However, meaningful croaks from her raven ally Diablo — or Diaval, as he introduces himself here when Maleficent turns him into a human (Sam Riley) in order to save him from some mean people ...