pointless scenes involving Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) as she smiles, plays with nature, and asserts her admiration for Maleficent's magical world. What we needed more of was some indication of why ...

Where Sleeping Beauty is soft, Maleficent is all hard edges. The framing comes through in the colors and imagery; the spikes are reminiscent of prickly thorns, while Aurora and the three good ...

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil review: Disney villain sequel loses heart and complexity to CGI battle scene “One of the ... In our story, Aurora is basically moving out, which is something ...

Bent on revenge, Maleficent faces a battle with the invading king's successor; as a result she places a curse upon his newborn daughter Aurora. As the child grows, Maleficent realizes that Aurora ...