In the past five years, only a handful of movies have really earned the label “blockbuster” in spirit, not just…
Browsing: Drama
Love, in its most untamed and consuming form, has always haunted the edges of human understanding. It is a force…
In “Les Trois Valseurs,” Agnès, a heartbroken widow shares a night with Jean, a male sex worker. She only asks…
Given the utter brutality and lack of morals in Nicholas Winding Refn’s 2011 film “Only God Forgives,” his 2011 film…
The toaster that pops in Ruth Goldman’s (Kathleen Chalfant) immaculate kitchen early on in Sarah Friedland’s “Familiar Touch” might as…
After making many of us shed tears until our eyes ran dry with “Past Lives,” acclaimed stage director and Oscar-nominated…
Wes Anderson is an auteur working on his own level and landscape, with nobody being able to come close to…
It takes a rare kind of empathy to direct a film that observes hardship through the gaze of a child—one…
A curious trend emerged across several films at this year’s Tribeca Festival: characters retreating to places not just to escape,…
By now, the image of a couple—or two—retreating into the wilderness for a therapeutic weekend has gone from serious indie…