So what does Maleficent's sudden reemergence as a sympathetic antihero mean for modern audiences? The world was a much different place when Sleeping Beauty debuted in 1959. Sleeping Beauty spent ...

We meet young Maleficent (played by Isobelle Molloy, then Ella Purnell), parentless but frolicking happily in The Moors, a fairyland landscape more out of Maurice Sendak than the happiest place on ...

By Sheri Linden Senior Copy Editor/Film Critic To secure that crown, Stefan commits an act of unspeakable cruelty against Maleficent. The mutilation takes place offscreen, but its effects are ...

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.

It's been a criticism of Disney's live-action remakes that they don't do anything different with their source material, but that's not something you could aim at Maleficent. The 2014 reimagining ...