The relative absence of gossip is refreshing in light of so many salacious documentaries about celebrities.

| Apr 7, 2020

An innovative and fascinating documentary...

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 8, 2019

A fascinating and loving documentary about the 1950s Greek-American opera sensation.

| Original Score: B | Dec 7, 2018

Volf strives to present material that will absolve the diva of her scandals while presenting her side of the story, but what he hints at instead is a tantalizing portrait of a world-renowned female artist forging her place in a male-defined world.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 29, 2018

[A] distinctive and affecting documentary...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 23, 2018

The film is unfailingly sympathetic to the diva at its center. It accepts her status as a legend and does its best to enhance it.

| Nov 13, 2018

What emerges is a portrait of a woman of extraordinary natural gifts and work ethic, who was pressured to become a superstar by her mother and then her husband, instead of a conventional homemaker and mother.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 6, 2018

The least we can do is enjoy the fruits of her sacrifice, her rich and enormous legacy of live and studio recordings. "Maria by Callas" is a forceful reminder and an invitation to do that.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 5, 2018

What emerges is more respectful portrait than painstaking biography, but one that will satisfy fans and undoubtedly draw in newcomers to the legacy of opera's most notoriously expressive performer.

| Nov 2, 2018

An aching compilation of a woman branded as difficult yet adored as one of operas' biggest stars in the 20th century.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 2, 2018

"Maria By Callas..." expertly presents an emotional essence of this performer, leaving you both shaken and stirred by the extent of her gifts and the way they connected to both audiences and her tumultuous life.

| Nov 1, 2018

Here's the intimate, unabashedly reverential new documentary that gives legendary diva Maria Callas the encore she deserves. And in her own voice. Fasten your seatbelts.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 1, 2018

A documentary that revitalizes history through primary sources, to illuminating, at times enthralling effect.

| Nov 1, 2018

The film is less hagiographic than most documentaries of its kind, which isn't to say that Tom Volf's adoration of his subject is ever in doubt.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 28, 2018

The film resolves as a passionate tribute to a woman who commanded the world's attention, but was never afforded its decency. It's a curtain call for Callas, and a chance for the great singer to be heard again.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 17, 2018

At the very least, it will send many viewers back to the recordings, some of them superior to the renditions heard here, with a more vivid picture of the extraordinary woman who made them.

| Sep 11, 2018

What the film loses in dimensionality it gains in intimacy and focus, because only one voice is deemed necessary for us to hear.

| Sep 11, 2018