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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

Does the creation of film art justify the mistreatment of an individual on set? Could a film such as 'Last Tango in Paris' be made today? Jessica Palud's biopic ponders. The narrative depicts ...

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 ...

In Maria, Daria Panchenko stars as the titular Maria, a prolific adult film performer whose career appears to be over after a car crash. Initially in a coma, Maria’s body disappears only to ...