Browsing: drama

Genre-hopping French writer-director Alice Winocour describes Couture as a “memento mori,” but its contemplative musings on mortality, trauma and resilience run shallow. Partly inspired by Angelina…

Agnieszka Holland has never shied away from difficult subjects. The Polish filmmaker, a three-time Oscar nominee (Angry Harvest, Europa Europa, In Darkness) and winner of Venice’s…

The weight of the past comes crashing down on a pair of ex-lovers in Chinese director Cai Shangjun’s latest drama, which asks whether it’s possible to…

There are simple Sunday afternoon pleasures to be had in the gentle comedy drama The Choral, the latest collaboration for Nicholas Hytner and Alan Bennett. Their…

Producer-star Cillian Murphy and director Tim Mielants last collaborated on a superlative adaptation of Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These, and their new project together could…

[This story contains spoilers from Wednesday season two, Part 2.] Catherine Zeta-Jones was thrilled for her character, Morticia Addams, to have a prominent story arc in…

For more than a decade, Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania has blurred the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction, crafting work that moves between dramatization and documentary…

The megastar plays a philosophy professor shaken by a student’s sexual assault allegation against a colleague in Luca Guadagnino’s new film – and she’s easily the…

Madrid-based Sideral, an integrated production-distribution-sales label which debuted in 2023 at the Berlinale, has announced plans to produce and distribute “Los Relatos” a femicide drama by…

When the derivative Netflix spy drama Treason premiered in 2022, I used the Charlie Cox vehicle as an excuse to write a small treatise on the…