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MAY 2025 TOP FOUR:
Celebrating Mutha.

2024
Maria: Pablo Larrain’s final piece of his triptych lets the audience in on the realization that each woman we’ve seen—from 2016’s Jackie to now—has been delivering their own mad scene inside prisons not of their own designs.
In the case of Maria Callas, film and celebrity blend to form her own unique landscape where reality and the drama of opera assemble her life before her eyes. Angelina Jolie’s face is the conduit of memory and accesses a deep stillness I’ve…