Drama

The rich human condition told with a straight face, this is the mother of all genres. So if it doesn't fit snugly anywhere else it's usually Drama...

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Aftersun (2022): Dir. Charlotte Wells
Feat. Paul Mescal, Frankie Corio; This quietly devastating story of a father and daughter that share holiday time in the 90's assembles its remembered and video-recorded fragments in a way that lingers long after the credits roll. Young Frankie Corio is beautifully naturalistic and Paul Mescal (Normal People) hits the marks of a deeply…
Convert, The (2024): Dir. Lee Tamahori
Feat. Guy Pearce, Jacqueline McKenzie, Te Kohe Tuhaka…; A British lay preacher finds himself caught in the middle of a bloody war between Maori tribes in this vivid colonialist epic from dir. Lee Tamahori.
Origin (2023): Dir. Ava DuVernay
Feat. Aunjanue Ellis, Blair Underwood, Vera Farmiga…; Written and directed by Ava DuVernay (Selma), this ambitious docu-drama chronicles the efforts of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson to investigate American racism and its connection to other hierarchies of human divisions that are not necessarily racial. Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (King…
One Life (2023): Dir. James Hawes
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Flynn…; the true story of a London broker Nicholas Winton; who secretly organised the rail transport of hundreds of Jewish children from Nazi occupied Europe to England during the short months before World War II. Fifty years after the war. A BBC television show, ‘That’s Life’, surprises him by throwing…
How To Have Sex (2023): Dir. Molly Manning Walker
Feat. Mia McKenna-Bruce, Lara Peake, Samuel Bottomley…; A vibrant and sometimes confronting portrait of youth binge culture that clings like day-glo lycra to three British teenage girls at a Greek resort. It won the Un Certain Regard at Cannes, a prize awarded to recognize young talent and to encourage innovative and daring works. Following "Cat Person" and…
May December (2023): Dir. Todd Haynes
Feat. Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, Charles Melton; Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman make a formidable double-act in this fascinating, multi-layered drama about an actress doing field research with the woman she is set to play in a movie – one vilified (and convicted) for her notorious romance with a seventh grader whom she later married. Inspired by a…
Priscilla (2023): Dir. Sofia Coppola
Feat. Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Ari Cohen…; Sofia Coppola's delicate and understated adaptation of Priscilla Presley's 1985 memoir about the stifling reality of being Mrs. Elvis Presley. Aussie it-boy Jacob Elordi especially impresses as Elvis who, at 6'5", towers over a diminutive Cailee Spaeny, but this only adds to the imbalance of power at the…