Kodi-Smit-McPhee (Memoir of a Snail, Elvis) is a young journalist named Mandrax (the same name as the drug Callas was known for taking) trying to document Maria’s final days, acting almost as a ...

One of the more animated objects in “Maria” is Maria Callas’s piano, moved from room to room by servants at the whim of the ex-opera star. Its journeys have no discernible purpose. It weighs a ton.

Early reactions to Angelina Jolie’s latest movie are signaling the superstar’s triumphant return to the big screen. Maria, director Pablo Larraín’s new biopic about opera singer Maria Callas, ...

Toward the end of Jessica Palud’s “Being Maria,” an uneven but poignantly restorative portrait of “Last Tango in Paris” star Maria Schneider (played here by “Happening” breakout Anamaria Vartolomei), ...

Angelina Jolie deserves some flowers for her steady performance as Maria Callas in the biopic “Maria,” even if the movie doesn’t completely do the opera legend justice. “Maria” focuses on the final ...

Following Spencer and Jackie — biopic melodramas about Princess Diana and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy — Chilean director Pablo Larraín rounds out his informal trilogy with Maria, another film about ...

Martin Tsai was a fellow at the 2020 National Critics Institute of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and Poynter Institute’s 2023 Power of Diverse Voices workshop. His work has appeared in the Los ...

I was curious about this film after attending my first opera this year in Toronto: “The Cunning Little Vixen” by Leoš Janáček. Now, for the Savannah Film Festival 2024, I was able to experience a ...