Film Review — Maria
Pablo Larraín’s biopic of opera singer Maria Callas proves a disappointment
Critics have mostly praised Angelina Jolie’s lead performance as opera singer Maria Callas in the third of Pablo Larraín’s unofficial trilogy concerning famous 20th-century women. Frankly, I think Jolie has been overpraised in Maria and was far better in the likes of A Mighty Heart (2007) and Changeling (2008). But she is far from the…
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