Maleficent, Disney's new revisionist take on Sleeping Beauty, opens this weekend, and critics seem to agree on one thing: Angelina Jolie is stunning in the title role. But they're divided on how good the movie around her actually is—it's currently scoring 47% on Rotten Tomatoes. Here's what people are saying:
- "Ultimately Maleficent is a showcase, flawed but serviceable, for one of the most charismatic actors currently on screen," Moira Macdonald at the Seattle Times writes. Jolie is simply captivating. "It’s hard to think of another performer whose side-eye seems as if it could fell trees, whose cheekbones (aided here by razor-like prosthetics) could slice a feather, who makes it seem perfectly natural that, when she walks, stone walls crumble in her wake. … Just try to look away."