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 ...

Running time: 123 minutes. Rated R (some language including a sexual reference). In some theaters. Near the end of “Maria,” 53-year-old Maria Callas, the opera diva stunningly played by Angelina Jolie ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

Following "Jackie" and "Spencer," Pablo Larraín closes his trilogy of historical portraits with an uneven story about a singer in search of her voice. The last and least familiar chapter in his ...

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 ...