Maria (2024)

"Callas could sing three octaves, but the film is mostly one note."

"There is an overt theatricality and artificiality which gives the film its life."

"Much would be forgiven if the sourness of Maria and its title goddess didn’t try one’s patience quite so cruelly."

"What we get here isn’t interesting, and it’s not told in an interesting way."

"What should feel extremely human teeters on caricature."

"Maria, despite being occasionally slow, is a weird, good movie."

"Maria wafts around without quite settling on what it wants to say."

"There is something arbitrary, unspecific about the film."

"A wilfully limp biopic, marred most of all by dodgy lip-syncing."

"Jolie finally has the starring role she deserves."

"Intimacy is the key factor lacking in the third part of (Larraín's) unofficial trilogy."

"So focused on freeing its subject from her own legend that it struggles to convey who she is or was beyond it."

"Larraín has a way to make what feels absurd on paper read as poignant on screen."

"Angelina Jolie has never been better."

"An exquisitely crafted tone poem."

"It never feels like Jolie has lost herself in the role; rather, you see Angelina Jolie playing Maria Callas."