Cinderella
Following the demise of her father, young Ella is been, maltreated by are step family, but her golden chance is about to come and a fairy is just near to help.
22 October 1938, Leytonstone, London, England, UK
1984, Lagos, Nigeria
5 April 1989, Esher, Surrey, England, UK
3 July 1961, Lewisham, London, England, UK
16 August 1989, Guildford, Surrey, UK
13 June 1951, Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
31 July 1970, London, England, UK
1985, Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
April 26, 2016
Kenneth Branagh's live action adaptation of Cinderella is a delightful rendition, if surprisingly traditional, that honours the classic fairy tale with a sweet, humorous and earnest treatment befitting a Disney film.
March 15, 2015
Cinderella is a wonderfully realized family feature that retains the strengths of its source material while at the same time updating it for today's audiences.
March 13, 2015
The new film... is nothing if not a tribute to old-fashioned virtues, of care and craft and modesty, of simple stories well told.
April 09, 2016
The story doesn't work nearly as well in live action, losing the buffer zone of disbelief inherent in Disney's classic animated version.
May 28, 2016
It's such a rote recitation of a story we've heard a thousand times that it's hard to imagine why on earth they're telling it to us again.
March 16, 2015
Nearly a century after that black-and-white cartoon short, and 65 years after a "classic" animated feature that missed the mark, Disney finally got Cinderella right -- for now and, happily, ever after.
March 15, 2015
The colors - good lord. They're like nothing you could experience in the real world. Cinderella's behemoth of a ball gown alone is 50 shades of blue.
May 24, 2016
When gown (James) meets jodhpurs (Madden) in the pivotal ballroom scene, the chemistry is palpable. In a scene that could have been a large bowl of Edwardian cheese, the two young actors give off plenty of old-fashioned romantic sparks.
January 01, 2016
Even allowing that Blanchett wrings a wee bit of actual pathos from the added backstory of her character's bitterness, these performances, like the CG concessions of animated animals, are irritatingly overdone.
March 13, 2015
I'm all for confection, but this movie takes that too far. Cinderella and the prince look like they belong on a wedding cake.
February 23, 2016
For better or worse, Branagh has redefined the template for what Disney's princess franchise will look like going forward.
March 13, 2015
Some of the supporting players, most resplendently Cate Blanchett as the wicked stepmother and Derek Jacobi as the ailing king, are very fine. The film never soars, though.
