Maria
Netflix | Release Date: November 27, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 50 Critic Reviews
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Entertainment WeeklyMaureen Lee LenkerSep 4, 2024
This is a portrait of all that an artist must sacrifice for their work and the ways that is amplified further as a female artist. It's a fable of fame and control, but it's also an ode to a woman who could only find peace by singing her heart out. Read full review
90
We Got This CoveredFrancisca TinocoDec 12, 2024
Maria is a triumph and the culmination of a trilogy that has become a definitive and essential dissection of the celebrity biopic genre. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comTomris LafflyNov 27, 2024
With "Maria," about the final days of the iconic American-Greek soprano Maria Callas, Larraín turns his "historic women" movies into a near-perfect trilogy, giving us a stunning conclusion to his series. Read full review
88
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiNov 27, 2024
As Callas so devastatingly starts to lose it, “Maria” satisfyingly stirs our insides in the mysterious way an opera does. Read full review
85
TheWrapSteve PondAug 29, 2024
In a movie that is stately on the surface and stormy underneath, Jolie’s drawn, almost architectural features and air of enforced restraint is ideal for Larraín’s vision of Callas. She’s a glorious, luminous wreck, looking for peace but drawn inexorably to a world of grand artifice. Read full review
80
Little White LiesHannah StrongJan 10, 2025
There’s an ethereal quality to Jolie’s performance that matches Callas’ legendary persona, and despite the deep sense of melancholy that pervades the film like a ghostly veil, this is still a love story – and one where the heroine lives forever. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawJan 8, 2025
Maria is the most persuasive and seductive of Larraín’s trilogy of great women at bay, after Jackie about Jackie Kennedy, and Spencer about Princess Diana. Read full review
80
EmpireJohn NugentDec 20, 2024
La Diva Eterna lives in Jolie, with a performance as towering as it is understated: sad and soulful and heartbreaking. She has never been better. Brava! Read full review
80
SlashfilmJeremy MathaiOct 4, 2024
Practically every immaculate shot in Maria is framed as if it were the title character's own theater stage. This makes an apt runway for Angelina Jolie to do her thing and deliver easily her most dialed-in performance of the last decade (or more). Read full review
80
The IndependentClarisse LoughreySep 4, 2024
Maria is a tragedy, but not because of one of life’s piteous events. Instead it’s the tragedy of a woman’s failure to heal her wounds with her art. Read full review
80
Time OutKaleem AftabAug 29, 2024
This enjoyable biopic offers a loving and affectionate portrait of Callas that never airbrushes her foibles. Read full review
80
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeAug 29, 2024
Jolie’s fragile brilliance is not to be questioned. Read full review
80
The TelegraphRobbie CollinAug 29, 2024
Jolie is given ample space to dazzle, but less to surprise. Dazzle she does though, with a fine understanding of just how camp she can go without proceedings becoming too operatic for their own good. Read full review
80
The GuardianXan BrooksAug 29, 2024
Midway through, I was all set to file this as a posturing distraction, destined for a life as a high-camp curio. But it ground me down, won me over and by the closing credits, God help us, I was hoping for an encore. Read full review
75
Washington PostTy BurrNov 27, 2024
Maria is still worth your attention for the spectacle of a statuesque actress playing a woman who willed herself into statuary. Read full review
75
The Associated PressLindsey BahrNov 27, 2024
Is it all a little much? Of course, but that’s kind of the point of Maria. Read full review
75
Original-CinKim HughesNov 26, 2024
For a biopic about Maria Callas, one of opera’s most vivacious personalities, director Pablo Larraín’s visually sumptuous Maria is unusually downbeat. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperNov 25, 2024
This is an exquisitely filmed and at times deeply melancholy portrait of an artist who had once made the rafters of great opera houses hum with her bel canto technique and had been mobbed by fans and adored by millions, but spent her last week surrounded by the echoes of sadness. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleNov 22, 2024
Maria, despite being occasionally slow, is a weird, good movie. Read full review
75
Paste MagazineLuke HicksOct 3, 2024
The history baked into Maria is fascinating, one of the film’s greatest strengths. Read full review
75
The Film VerdictAlonso DuraldeAug 29, 2024
Maria is most truly involved with its subject when it abandons any impulse to scale her down, to reduce a titan to life-size, and opts instead to remember the singer as grandiose, allowing her memory — and Jolie’s perfectly suited performance of that memory — to fill the biggest screen. Read full review
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Arizona RepublicAmanda LubertoNov 25, 2024
Maria rounds out the trilogy of important women in the 20th century in consummate fashion. Lorraín sticks to his melodic style while highlighting an undeniable actress of our time, this time with Angelina Jolie. Read full review
70
LooperAudrey FoxAug 30, 2024
The film as a whole may be too sedate and ploddingly paced for some — a piano being moved back and forth, over and over again, across an elegant but lonely Parisian apartment, both literally and figuratively. But it's impossible to deny the raw emotional power of Jolie in the lead role. Read full review
70
Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganAug 29, 2024
Larrain uses the familiar narrative structure of the flashback and adds some operatic grace notes to deliver a performance-led film that is never less than expected – but also never less than watchable. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyAug 29, 2024
The movie is like a glittering jewel in a glass showcase, inviting you to look but not touch. Read full review
67
The Film StageRory O'ConnorAug 30, 2024
Larraín keeps much of the film quiet, and as a result Maria can feel a little empty: a conceptual touch, perhaps, but one that leaves Knight’s script and Jolie’s performance (presence to burn, a bit limited for interiority) with a lot of heavy-lifting. Read full review
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IndieWireDavid EhrlichAug 29, 2024
Larraín’s freeform portrait of the diva’s final days seldom feels like more than a libretto: passionately sung, but lacking the detail and fullness needed to bring it to life. Read full review
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Movie NationRoger MooreDec 16, 2024
What one is left with is a gorgeous, quiet and tragic appreciation of Callas. Read full review
63
ObserverRex ReedDec 12, 2024
Maria is not a terrible movie, just a big disappointment. Read full review
63
USA TodayBrian TruittDec 11, 2024
The melodrama is packed with more style – so, so much style – than narrative substance, though Jolie...fully commits to the role both emotionally and musically. Read full review
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