This review of The Ugly Stepsister comes from its screenings at the Berlin International Film Festival. It will be updated ...

The Evil Stepsister is a Norwegian horror-comedy retelling of the fairy tale Cinderella, focused not on the title character ...

The story of Cinderella has been passed down across the world for centuries, first through oral lore, then via various ...

“The Ugly Stepsister” — the Cinderella-inspired horror that emerged from Sundance as one of the festival’s buzziest titles — has sold worldwide for Memento International. From director ...

“The Ugly Stepsister” — the Cinderella-inspired horror that emerged from Sundance as one of the festival’s buzziest titles — has sold worldwide for Memento International. From director Emilie ...

Companies prey on insecurities, selling solutions to invented problems. When The Ugly Stepsister retreads these well-appreciated facts through visual gags or obvious dialogue, the effect can be dull.

The family-friendly studio’s more-wholesome-than-horrifying approach gives Norwegian writer-director Emilie Blichfeldt plenty of room to push back with “The Ugly Stepsister,” a deliciously ...

Enter Norwegian filmmaker Emilie Blichfeldt, who makes her gruesome entrée into that movement with her playfully grotesque feature debut “The Ugly Stepsister.” One character’s name being Sophie von ...