Being Maria
By Kevin Filipski March 20, 2025

In Jessica Palud’s bumpy but effective biopic of Maria Schneider, the Last Tango in Paris shoot casts a shadow over everything that follows in Schneider’s life.
In Jessica Palud’s bumpy but effective biopic of Maria Schneider, the Last Tango in Paris shoot casts a shadow over everything that follows in Schneider’s life.
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Perhaps director Walter Salles’s best film since Central Station.
Director James Mangold focuses less on biographical details and more on Bob Dylan’s music, which might single-handedly bring the folk movement back into vogue.
How do you solve a problem like Maria—portraying soprano Maria Callas, that is?
The biopic traces Trump’s rise as an ambitious real estate mogul in the 1970s and ’80s under the tutelage of the bombastic lawyer Roy Cohn.
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An electric musical biopic with songs that viewers will immediately want to add to their Spotify playlists.
The woman who revolutionized the French champagne industry.