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Tag: Drama

Opening Night (1977)

Drama Rated PG-13

“Rowlands takes the movie by the throat…”

Transit (2019)

Drama Rated NR

“…reminds us how easily the awful past can be repeated in the present.”

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

Drama Rated R

“Gazzara exudes cool and calm while also stinking of panic.”

A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

Drama Rated R

“Mental illness as theater.”

Ordinary People (1980)

Drama Rated R

“…an especially tony Afterschool Special.”

Yi Yi (2000)

Drama Rated NR

“Yi Yi has space for everyone.”

Faces (1968)

Drama Rated R

“…constantly scratches its own skin.”

High Flying Bird (2019)

Drama Rated NR

“…it’s as if some scenes have dissociative identity disorder.”

Miss Bala (2019)

Drama Rated PG-13

“…weirdly sexualizes things to undermine everything the original was interested in.”

Green Book (2018)

Drama Rated PG-13

“…much of this is cringe-inducing from the vantage point of 2018.”

Recent Reviews

By the Time It Gets Dark (2016)

Drama Rated NR

“While always mesmerized, I admittedly got lost amidst the layers…”

Two Minutes Late (1952)

Drama Rated NR

“… aims to be a big-screen version of a lurid pulp crime novel.”

Xiao Wu (Pickpocket) (1997)

Drama Rated NR

“… a scrappy, neo-realist tale of societal scrounging that’s paused by poetic moments of slow cinema.”


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