Angelina Jolie is still receiving a lot of
praise for her eagerly awaited new movie, Maria. According to insiders, the Telluride Film Festival
on Monday gave a standing ovation to the Oscar winner's portrayal of opera diva Maria Callas.
A clearly moving According to the insider, Jolie, 49, thanked the audience while covering
her mouth and putting her hand on her chest. The Telluride screening follows an eight-minute
standing ovation for Maria's global premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday,
during which Angelina broke down in tears. This follows the release of her former partner
Brad Pitt's latest movie Wolfs, which costarred George Clooney and also had a Venice premiere
but received negative reviews from reviewers. At a Telluride post-screening panel, Jolie talked about her anxiety on
her first day of singing Callas. According to the insider, she remarked,
"I had seven months of opera classes, great teachers and Italian classes, and a
supportive team that were going to help me." "I couldn't believe how
anxious I was that morning." The actress expressed her enthusiasm
for her partnership with 48-year-old filmmaker Pablo Larraín, and talked
highly of her time working with him. I was confident that Pablo would accept
my effort and find a way to make it work. "I knew I had to try my hardest
to help solve the puzzle, but it also helped that I knew he
was a kind and supportive person." Wolfs, meanwhile, is the first
film in which Pitt and Clooney appear together since Burn After Reading in 2008. The legendary pair portrays fixers
in this new film who are entrusted with covering up crimes but grudgingly
join forces when given the same mission. Clooney discussed his long-standing personal and professional connection with
Pitt during the premiere. "It's not good at all," he said in
jest. "Everything is a disaster," More somberly, George continued, 'It's enjoyable
to collaborate with somebody you know well.' Critics, meanwhile, have dissed the
recently released buddy-cop movie, calling it a "messy" one-star
failure and a "unbearable comedy." In Wolfs, an upcoming $200 million film
on Apple TV+ that opens in theaters on September 20, the two Ocean's Eleven
co-stars reluctantly collaborate to 'fix' a situation that arises when a
tough-on-crime District Attorney wakes up with a dead twenty-something with
whom she was having a one-night stand. However, critics believe the film, which
set a record for the most budget for a streaming picture, is a complete failure,
calling it a "slick student film from a rich teen who's subsisted on a media diet of
early Guy Ritchie" (Siddhant Adlakha, IGN) The filmmaker Jon Watts, who made a fortune from
the Spider-Man trilogy in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is also being joked about, according
to Xan Brooks of The Guardian, "because what he's made is basically the film of the meme
in which two Spideys point at each other." And Robbie Collin of The Telegraph described the
movie as "messy," stating that George Clooney has recently expressed dissatisfaction about Quentin
Tarantino's lack of regard for him as a movie star. Clooney will soon prove Tarantino correct if
he produces additional movies along these lines. Along with the other critics, he claims
that Watts appeared to have relied on the popularity of Clooney and Pitt to turn the
film into a box office success despite the film's drab premise and "half-baked
script with little humor or heart." The Daily Beast's Barry Levitt contended
that the central theme of all the jokes is that none of the characters wants
to collaborate with the other. "Moving with Clooney and Pitt in
Wolfs encapsulates the exhilarating joy of hearing your children repeatedly ask,
"Are we there yet?"," according to Levitt. It repeatedly tells the same joke over and
over. And just when you thought Wolfs might be ready to move on to something new, it
tries the same joke in its 400th iteration.