Cinderella remained the delicate and dutiful daughter, but her father conveniently dies now, and her step-sisters are ugly. Modern interpretations of Cinderella turn her into a Mary Sue ...

Emilie Blichfeldt's feature debut "The Ugly Stepsister" is a grim and gruesome affair not for the faint of heart ...

Norwegian writer-director Emilie Blichfeldt’s grotesque reworking of the Cinderella story creates a world where beauty is pain for some women, but life is pain for all of them.

By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic Everyone knows Cinderella’s story ... selling solutions to invented problems. When The Ugly Stepsister retreads these well-appreciated facts through ...

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 ...

PARK CITY, UTAH Jan. 24 (UPI) --The Ugly Stepsister, which premiered Thursday at the Sundance Film Festival, embraces the darkness of the original Cinderella fairy tale. The Norwegian film ramps ...

“The Ugly Stepsister” begins with the tragically ... and his ethereally beautiful daughter, Agnes (Thea-Sofie Loch Næss), now Elvira and Ama’s stepsister. Agnes is the type of long-haired ...

We feel the sadness, too. Maybe once upon a time we were supposed to identify with Cinderella, but the truth is that we’re all ugly stepsisters at heart. But what makes this picture so ...