Review: Angelina Jolie and Michelle Pfeiffer lock horns in 'Mistress of Evil,' an enjoyably deranged 'Maleficent' sequel
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Oct 16, 2019
3 minutes
Once upon a time, a Hollywood movie didn't have to be so many things to so many people. It didn't have to set a new opening-weekend record, conquer multiple demographics or plant the seeds of a future franchise to be deemed a reasonable success. But times have changed and reasonable has long gone out the window. Witness the bigger-is-better aesthetic that informs even a relatively minor cultural happening like "Maleficent: Mistress of Evil," Disney's follow-up to its 2014 hit "Maleficent," which was itself a live-action spin on the studio's sublime 1959 animation, "Sleeping Beauty."
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