Angelina Jolie's Maria Triumphs, Pitt's Wolfs Flops

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.

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