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Tag: Drama

Materialists (2025)

Drama Rated R

“It’s not you, Dakota Johnson, it’s me.”

Love & Basketball (2000)

Drama Rated PG-13

“If someone knows the one true thing about you, that might be enough for a life together.”

Vulcanizadora (2025)

Drama Rated NR

“…you feel the desperation and doom closing in with each passing scene.”

The Shrouds (2025)

Drama Rated R

“…a mournful, if macabre, meditation on losing a loved one — as only writer-director David Cronenberg could manage.”

Andrei Rublev (1966)

Drama Rated R

“Tarkovsky sets the stage for the rest of his career with Andrei Rublev…”

Ivan’s Childhood (1962)

Drama Rated NR

“…has a mysticism and poeticism that would define later Tarkovsky efforts.”

Early Summer (1951)

Drama Rated NR

“For Yasujiro Ozu, domestic tranquility always sits on a razor’s edge…”

The Fishing Place (2025)

Drama Rated NR

“Aficionados of long, contemplative single takes will appreciate The Fishing Place…”

Eric LaRue (2025)

Drama Rated NR

“… interrogates the rush to healing and forgiveness that can sometimes follow tragedy in Christian communities.”

The French Connection (1971)

Drama Rated R

“Rightly remembered for a pivotal car chase…”

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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