Tag: drama
BY DESIGN Review: Beautiful and Heartbreakingly Singular
Juliette Lewis stars, supported by Mamoudou Athie, Samantha Mathis, Robin Tunney, Alisa Torres, Clifton Collins Jr., Keir Gilchrist, with Udo Kier and Betty Buckley. Narrated by Melanie Griffith. Amanda Kramer directed.
CRIME 101 Review: Cast Lifts Familiar Heist Plot
Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Barry Keoghan and Halle Berry star in Bart Layton's adaptation of Don Winslow's source material.
Sundance 2026 Review: UNION COUNTY, Will Poulter Leads Devastating Examination of Opioid Addiction
By one estimate, more than 550,000 people have lost their lives to the opioid epidemic over the first quarter of the 21st century. That number doubles or even triples when it includes those who’ve fallen prey to opioid addiction...
A CHINESE COURTESAN Double Feature Celebrates Seduction and Savagery
Imprint Films brings a Shaw Brothers double feature filled with sex and swordplay.
ROSE OF NEVADA Official Trailer: Mark Jenkin's Mystery Drama is Coming to Theaters This June
A mysterious boat returns to a village 30 years after vanishing. Two men join the crew, hoping for better fortune. After one voyage, they find themselves transported back in time, mistaken for the original crew.
IN A VIOLENT NATURE 2: Paris Sales Group Charades to Take Slasher Horror Sequel to EFM
Variety has reported this morning that French sales outfit Charades has come on board the slasher horror sequel, In A Violent Nature 2, and will present it to buyers during EFM in Berlin. The sequel ... brings back Ry...
Sundance 2026 Review: I WANT YOUR SEX, Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman Headline Gregg Araki's Welcome Return to Filmmaking
Between 1987 (Three Bewildered People in the Night) and 2010 (Kaboom), queer filmmaker Gregg Araki wrote and directed 10 films, solidifying his status as a New Queer Cinema visionary with few, if any, peers (only arthouse favorites Derek Jarman and...
PILLION Review: Unexpectedly Tender Romance Featuring Bikers, BDSM, and a Road to Self Discovery
Alexander Skarsgard and Harry Melling star in writer-director Harry Lighton's romantic drama.
THE FORBIDDEN CITY Trailer: Gabriele Mainetti's Martial Arts Epic Coming to Digital This March
Gabriele Mainetti's standout martial arts action epic, The Forbidden City, is coming to digital on March 17th. The release comes from the good folks at Well Go USA, and they put out the trailer today. You definitely want to check...
Sundance 2026 Review: EXTRA GEOGRAPHY, Idiosyncratic, Brit-Set Coming-of-Age Story Elevated By Duel Leads
When ultra-posh, Brit high-schoolers Flic (Marni Duggan) and Minna (Galaxie Clear), supposed best friends (forever) at the center of Extra Geography, BAFTA Award-winning director Molly Manners’s (One Day, Lazy Susan, In My Skin) splendid feature-length debut, decide to undetake a...
European Film Awards 2026 Interview: SENTIMENTAL VALUE Filmmakers Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt on Intergenerational Cinema, Creative Control, Why European Films Are Winning Again
Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt reflect on how long-term collaboration, actor-centered process, and a resolutely European production ethos shaped a film built around time, absence, and the quiet mechanics of family power.
European Film Awards 2026 Interview: SIRAT Director Oliver Laxe on Shock Therapy Cinema and Why Films Must Risk the Abyss
Oliver Laxe talks about fear, faith, and the physical limits he believes cinema must still be willing to cross.
Sundance 2026 Review: RUN AMOK, Must-See Hard-Hitting, Heart-Shredding Comedy-Drama
Writer-director NB Mager's debut feature stars Alyssa Marvin, Patrick Wilson, Margaret Cho, Sophia Torres, Elizabeth Marvel, and Molly Ringwald.
European Film Awards 2026 Interview: SOUND OF FALLING Director Mascha Schilinski on Transgenerational Trauma, Radical Subjectivity, Quiet Violence of Memory
Mascha Schilinski's film moves fluidly across time, perspective, and inner states, positioning itself as a rigorously authored work.
Sundance 2026 Review: TAKE ME HOME, Deeply Personal Drama of Family in Peril
Liz Sargent's film won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: US Dramatic. Anna Sargent, Victor Slezak, Ali Ahn, Shane Harper, and Marceline Hugot star.
TEACHER'S PET Review: Listening to Your Teacher Is Not Always a Good Idea
Michelle Torian, Luke Barnett, and Barbara Crampton star in writer/director Noam Kroll's unsettling, slow-burn psychological drama.
A POET Review: The Unbearable Weight of Passive Talent
Ubeimar Rios stars in Simón Mesa Soto's melancholy film, which is "primarily a story about humans, not professions or vocations."
Now Playing: SEND HELP, ARCO, SHELTER, BACK TO THE PAST
Plus: 'July Rhapsody,' 'The Love That Remains,' 'Islands,' 'Bitter Rice,' 'The Moment,' 'A Poet.'
Friday One Sheet: CRIME 101, And Character Work
A gritty-glossy (and subtly distressed) series of character posters dropped recently for Bart Layton's (The Imposter)'s adaptation of Don Winslow's (The Savages) heist potboiler about literal highway robbery, Crime 101, in anticipation of its February release. Framed in ultra close-up,...
SCENES AFTER A MARRIAGE Review: Now the Heartbreak Begins
Eva Rose and Ardalan Esmaili star in the dramatic series.
