The toaster that pops in Ruth Goldman’s (Kathleen Chalfant) immaculate kitchen early on in Sarah Friedland’s “Familiar Touch” might as…
Browsing: Drama
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…
Coming-of-age stories often cling to the notion that growth is a clean arc: a lesson learned, a heartbreak endured, and…
“The Day After” is considered one of the best made-for-tv movies of all time. Premiering November 20, 1983, on ABC,…
Isabel Hagen’s “On a String” might be one of the few films where the setup itself already plays like a…
In Jessica J. Rowlands’ directorial debut “Rise,” there’s a quiet certainty to every frame. It’s as if the story was…