This week's @ObsNewReview column, in which 2 DAYS, 1 NIGHT, BELLE, MALEFICENT and others are improved by actressing. http://t.co/7KePfvcpAJ
— Guy Lodge (@GuyLodge) October 19, 2014
It’s hard to cast Angelina Jolie in roles that call for any kind of human mundaneness; so extraordinary is that dauntless, matured Boadicean face that she’s been rendered more a human special effect than an actress. It’d be a shame if that were to make digitally over-processed fantasy pap like Maleficent(Disney, PG) her primary stomping ground, since she remains such a peculiarly riveting presence: it’s her queenly, curled-lip wit and vampish self-possession that pull this gaudy, idly “revisionist” fairytale into any semblance of shape.
David Ayer represents the best and worst of American filmmaking with his WWII–set 'Fury' http://t.co/IR4nJkiNtY pic.twitter.com/t6J94vRXyy
— New York Magazine (@NYMag) October 19, 2014
