Drama films
Brightwood review – enterprising sci-fi horror sees jogging couple caught in a loop
Dane Elcar writes, directs and films this innovative indie movie that follows a bickering couple with seemingly no end
Catherine Bray
18, Mar, 2024 @2:04 PM
The New Boy review – Cate Blanchett is a fixated nun in striking but slow Australian drama
Sister Eileen becomes obsessed by an Indigenous boy with special gifts in Warwick Thornton’s handsome 1940s culture-clash tale
Wendy Ide
17, Mar, 2024 @11:00 AM
Monster review – multifaceted mystery from Hirokazu Kore-eda
The Japanese director of Shoplifters uses different takes on a single story to tell the fraught tale of two troubled boys
Wendy Ide
17, Mar, 2024 @8:00 AM
Banel & Adama review – powerfully subversive Senegalese love story
Khady Mane dazzles as a young wife with a mind of her own in Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s poetic Palme d’Or-nominated debut feature
Wendy Ide
16, Mar, 2024 @3:00 PM
Civil War review – Alex Garland’s immersive yet dispassionate war film
The writer-director’s much-anticipated look at the horrors of an America violently divided is an impressive technical feat yet an emotionally cold drama
Adrian Horton in Austin, Texas
15, Mar, 2024 @2:03 PM
The New Boy review – Cate Blanchett goes full wimple in the Australian outback
With just a touch of camp, Blanchett plays an imperious nun imposing Christianity on Indigenous orphans in Warwick Thornton’s enjoyable, enigmatic drama
Peter Bradshaw
15, Mar, 2024 @12:06 PM
Little Wing review – Brian Cox wasted in underwhelming YA drama
Succession actor is a one of many discordant parts in this coming-of-age saga about pigeons, which are the best thing about the movie
Adrian Horton
13, Mar, 2024 @5:37 PM
Fight Club review – prescient, tremendously acted classic still feels overblown
Its ungainly final twist and unreal violence sequences dim a film with a brilliant premise and rage that still stings
Peter Bradshaw
13, Mar, 2024 @11:00 AM
The Comedy Man review – manic gusto from Kenneth More’s 60s-style Withnail
More’s hopelessly vain out-of-work actor is joined by a blue chip cast in a zippy tale that does unfortunately rather show its age
Peter Bradshaw
12, Mar, 2024 @1:00 PM
The Lyricist Wannabe review – aspiring Cantopop wordsmith sees dark side of music
Norris Wong’s initially scampering comedy drama takes a cynical turn as the music industry preys on heroine’s wistful idealism
Phil Hoad
11, Mar, 2024 @9:00 AM
‘My father buried his friends in minus-40 Siberia’: director Hirokazu Kore-eda on trauma and childhood
The maker of Shoplifters and I Wish talks about Monster, his dark new film about our dangerously fragmented world – and the movie he’s planning about his dad, who endured horrors as a PoW in Russia
Xan Brooks
11, Mar, 2024 @5:00 AM
Da’Vine Joy Randolph wins best supporting actress Oscar for The Holdovers
Randolph triumphs for her role as a grieving mother in the Alexander Payne-directed film also starring Paul Giamatti
Andrew Pulver and Catherine Shoard
10, Mar, 2024 @11:25 PM
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