Maria (12A)

★★★★ An on-song Angelina Jolie fronts this stirring biopic about opera singer Maria Callas. ~ Radio Times.

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From acclaimed director Pablo Larraín – director of Jackie and Spencer – Maria tells the tumultuous, beautiful, and tragic story of the life of the world’s greatest female opera singer, Maria Callas, relived, and reimagined during her final days in 1970s Paris.

Featuring some of Callas’s greatest recordings and a celebrated return to the screen from Angelina Jolie, Maria is a sumptuous drama that hits all the high notes.

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★★★★★ Angelina Jolie captures the tragic glamour of Maria Callas in a masterly portrayal of the opera star. ~ The Irish Times.

★★★★ 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 which Jolie gives a career-defining performance as a haunted opera diva. ~ Radio Times.

★★★★ This biopic, which focuses on the last week of the soprano’s life, doubles down on Jolie’s innate glamour and cranks it up to regal extremes. ~ The Telegraph.

★★★★ Jolie is a painting to be stared at in Pablo Larraín’s opulent drama, tottering around Paris in the 70s and drawing us in to tragedy as thoroughly as Bellini or Puccini. ~ The Guardian.

★★★★ La Diva Eterna lives in Jolie, with a performance as towering as it is understated: sad and soulful and heartbreaking. She has never been better. Brava! ~ Empire.

★★★★ ~ The Irish Independent.

★★★★ ~ Little White Lies.

★★★★ ~ The Irish Times.

★★★★ ~ Time Out.

★★★★ ~ RTE.