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By Kristy Puchko (422) for CinemaBlend (829) on 28 May 2014

Maleficent' takes the venom out of its fierce titular figure, and rewrites her story to make her pathetic…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 28 May 2014

For all its limitations, Maleficent manages to be improbably entertaining to watch, due solely to its title character…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 28 May 2014

The direction by Robert Stromberg is an immediate mess…

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By Louise Keller (804) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 28 May 2014

In a word, Maleficent is magical, with Angelina Jolie hypnotic as the betrayed fairy from whose perspective this re-imagining of the Sleeping…

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By Tom Russo (407) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 28 May 2014

While this is Jolie’s show, obviously — and she’s terrifically arch — the surprising dearth of other compelling characters doesn’t…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 28 May 2014

This is almost entirely Angelina Jolie's show...this is a performance that goes from point A to point B without seeming rote, or ho-hum…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 28 May 2014

Consciously or not, coherently or not, Maleficent tells a new kind of story about how we live now, not once upon another time…

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By Drew Mcweeny (622) for Hitfix (861) on 28 May 2014

While I can see how there is a version of this film that might be able to successfully grapple with its central metaphor, I'm not sure Stromberg…

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By Claudia Puig (2,080) for USA Today (4,117) on 28 May 2014

It fails to live up to its early promise, mostly because of an uneven tone and murky character development…

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By Tasha Robinson (753) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 28 May 2014

Maleficent is out of balance in all sorts of ways. The effective silent sequences conflict with the frustratingly talky ones…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 28 May 2014

Jolie's performance so overshadows the rest of the cast (and the rest of the movie) that you sometimes feel as if the other characters are,…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 28 May 2014

This icon of witchcraft can't save a production that's suffocatingly elaborate yet insufficiently bewitching…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 28 May 2014

Jolie comes to this party ready to bite, but the movie muzzles her. Even at 97 minutes, Maleficent is still one long, laborious slog…

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By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 May 2014

We may have all wanted to know the story behind those famed horns, but the mystery was far preferable to having Maleficent de-fanged and de-clawed…

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By Rebecca Cusey (105) for Patheos (85) on 28 May 2014

It lacks the irony of Shrek and Wicked. And that's a good thing…

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By Devin Faraci (498) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 27 May 2014

Disney thought it would be a good idea to spend well over a hundred million dollars making a movie that shows the backstory of Sleeping Beauty…

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By Matthew Pejkovic (770) for Matt's Movie Reviews (913) on 27 May 2014

Jolie draws upon that deep emotional well to portray the agony, heartbreak and anger, that transforms this pure young fairy with the horns…

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By Emily Breen (30) for HeyUGuys (1,461) on 27 May 2014

This bold approach commands rapt attention and allows an older audience deeper investment in the fantastical story, but very young viewers…

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By Sheri Linden (962) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 27 May 2014

A few bumpy patches notwithstanding, the new feature is an exquisitely designed, emotionally absorbing work of dark enchantment…

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By Keith Staskiewicz (60) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 27 May 2014

The characters are boiled down to their essentials, the humor is timelessly broad, and Jolie's at her best when she's curling her claws and…

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