As with Jackie and Spencer, Maria is more comfortable inhabiting its protagonist’s sadness than it is interrogating it. The film cuts to documentary footage of the real Callas in its final moments: ...

Chilean director Pablo Larraín concludes his thematic trilogy of 20th century biopics of famous women – after ‘Jackie’ and ‘Spencer’ – with this soft, restrained drama ...

In Maria, Angelina Jolie channels her own celebrity and understanding of fame, the crippling demands of beauty and age, and a woman's need to author her own narrative at whatever cost.

Viva la diva: Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas, Haluk Bilginer as Aristotle Onassis Callas ... Maybe Mr Mandrax put all that stuff in his documentary. Larraín’s goal is beyond, and he seems to have ...

Show more Viv Groskop and David Benedict join Tom Sutcliffe to talk about Maria, the Maria Callas biopic staring Angelina Jolie. They also review Alive in the Merciful Country by A.L. Kennedy and ...

James Mangold, who just received an Oscar nomination for directing the Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown” (itself a best ...

If you’re anything like us, right now you’re catching up on the deluge of exciting films that came out at the end of last ...

A cultural icon rattles around in her Paris apartment, at loose ends without her career, and verbally jousting with a younger man there to interrogate her about her life and work. At turns crafty ...

In a crowded field of potential acting nominees, many big names and winners of other awards were shut out Thursday from the Academy Award nominations — and one made Oscars history.