Critics Consensus

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil Misses on Magnificence

Plus, Zombieland: Double Tap is worth the second dip. See what the critics are saying about this week's movies!


This week at the movies, we’ve got a misunderstood sorceress (Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, starring Angelina Jolie and Elle Fanning) and apocalypse survivors (Zombieland: Double Tap, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Emma Stone). What are the critics saying?




Also Opening This Week In Limited Release

  • , a surreal suburban satire about two friends engaged in a game of passive-aggressive one-upsmanship, is at 100%.
  • François Ozon‘s drama about three men who join together to expose the priest who abused them as children, is at 95%.
  • Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe star in Robert Eggers‘ dark drama about two New England lighthouse keepers who appear to go mad from the isolation; it is Certified Fresh at 94%.
  • , a period comedy about the inspiration behind and creation of Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac, is at 86%.
  • , a documentary about an African elephant matriarch’s efforts to lead her herd across the savannah, is at 83%.
  • , starring Scarlett JohanssonTaika Waititi‘s World War II satire about a Hitler Youth who has a quirky, friendly version of the Führer as an imaginary friend, is at 81%.

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