Sleeping Beauty is a masterpiece. In my opinion, it’s not just the best animated film to ever come out of Walt Disney Studios, but it is also the finest animated motion picture I’ve ever seen, period.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 22, 2024

Often wide in scope with lovely shot composition and cinematography, Sleeping Beauty is at times a truly artistic endeavor.

| Jan 1, 2024

Maleficent is a ferocious creation...

| Jul 23, 2021

Sleeping Beauty is romance and pageantry, humor and pathos. It's excitement and conflict, magic and counter-magic. It's fun.

| May 12, 2021

Perhaps most impressive of all is the dark witch's design and scripting - she's unlike any Disney antagonist before her.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Aug 23, 2020

Sleeping Beauty Is a magnificent achievement, offering suspense, action and happy humor, in a truly giant-size package.

| Jun 23, 2020

Walt Disney's latest, costliest feature-length cartoon. It probably will make millions in dollars, pounds, marks and other currencies but there is a dismaying monster-horror bigness in this inflated version of the fairy-tale.

| Oct 18, 2019

Consistently has the aura of an old fairy tale, lovingly told, and the ingenious use of Tchaikovsky's ballet as the film's score reinforces its timelessness.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 7, 2019

One of Disney's most beautiful films with one of its best villains

| Original Score: 9/10 | May 8, 2019

Sleeping Beauty is frightening, overcoloured, overanimated and overwhelmingly vulgar, with a lot of lugubrious wordage set to Tchaikovsky's music.

| Mar 14, 2018

It is a picture that will charm the young and tickle adults, since the old fairy tale has been transferred to the screen by a Disney who kept his tongue in his cheek throughout the film's animation.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 28, 2016

A vision of artistry and pure entertainment, "Sleeping Beauty" will never, ever grow old.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 7, 2014

At once modernist and classical, Disney's Sleeping Beauty takes characters who look like paper cutouts from magazine cartoons and sets them against backdrops that look like expensive wallpaper patterns.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 6, 2014

Sleeping Beauty is a masterpiece that looks and sounds better than ever on Blu-ray, and with an outstanding selection of fascinating special features, this is a release that is easily labeled a must-own.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 6, 2014

Technical wizardry apart, it's the supporting characters that make the difference, in this case the trio of plump guardians Flora, Fauna and Merryweather, and iconic villainess Maleficent the wicked fairy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 20, 2013

Has poor party etiquette ever been so costly?

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 19, 2011

Disney classic is delightful but sometimes scary.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 14, 2010

One of the handful of Disney features that can be rightfully called perfect.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Nov 12, 2009

Has grown better with age.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 20, 2008

The animation is -- as with all the early Disney's -- jaw-droppingly good.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2008