Movie Reviews: Cruella — an enjoyable, psychologically sophisticated story
Emma Stone as the titular villain in Disney's Cruella
“Cruella De Vil, Cruella De Vil, if she doesn’t scare you, no evil thing will …” One of the most memorable villains in cinema history, (12A) is probably overdue for an origins story, which opens with the young Estella (Tipper Seifter-Cleveland) witnessing the death of her mother, which she blames on herself. Running away to London, Estella falls in with a pair of Dickensian street-urchins and grows up an accomplished grifter in the company of Jasper (Joel Fry) and Horace (Paul Walter Hauser).
