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Drama films

11 July 2024

  • All We Imagine as Light, Megalopolis, and The Shrouds are all screening at the 2024 Melbourne international film festival.

    Melbourne international film festival 2024: 10 things to see, from Megalopolis to new Cronenberg

    Plus Cate Blanchett as a hapless German chancellor, India’s first film to compete at Cannes in three decades, and a restored Wake in Fright – with a new score

9 July 2024

  • a still from Bushman, with Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam as Gabriel and Elaine Featherstone as Alma.

    Bushman review – amazing real-time evocation of a Nigerian’s life in 70s America

    Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam plays a lightly fictionalised version of himself in David Schickele’s restored 1971 film reflecting on race and nationality
  • Black man wearing purple hoodie looks ahead as a Black man wearing button down sits behind him

    Sing Sing review – powerful, deeply felt drama takes theatre behind bars

    Oscar nominee Colman Domingo leads an impressive ensemble in a gentle and inspiring story of incarcerated men finding joy in an acting program
  • Broodingly obsessed … The Fifth Seal.

    The Fifth Seal review – a spiky political cabaret of cruelty and fear

    Zoltán Fábri’s 1976 film follows military veteran Karoly in wartime Hungary as he asks fellow drinkers in a bar what they would choose: be the slave master or the slave

8 July 2024

  • man dressed in costume with a crown photographed in blue-ish light

    ‘Opened my whole world up’: inside Oscar-tipped prison theater drama Sing Sing

    An acclaimed movie spotlights a program offering a world of creativity to those living in a New York maximum security prison
  • Carbon & Water.

    Carbon & Water review – sexual fulfilment of a gay man in his 60s is little-explored territory

    An isolated older man falls for his nurse in a well-intentioned but erratically edited film undercut by poorly written characters with lengthy, repetitive dialogues
  • A Prince.

    A Prince review – queer erotic drama of sexual enlightenment through gardening

    Pierre Creton’s literary film is about the carnal blossoming of a gardener’s apprentice under the tutelage of a series of older men

7 July 2024

  • Problemista Still Julio Torres, Tilda Swinton

    Problemista review – Tilda Swinton stars in whimsical odd-couple visa drama

  • Koriangelis Brawns standing against a red backdrop with a sign saying 'power to the people'.

    Orlando, My Political Biography review – inventive spin on Virginia Woolf’s novel

  • Magalie Lépine Blondeau and Pierre-Yves Cardinal in The Nature of Love.

    The Nature of Love review – opposites attract in sizzling French-Canadian romcom

  • From left: Willem Dafoe in Kathryn Bigelow’s debut feature, The Loveless (1981); her Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker (2008); Jessica Chastain in political thriller Zero Dark Thirty (2012).

    Mark Kermode on film
    Mark Kermode on… Kathryn Bigelow, a stylish ruffler of feathers

6 July 2024

  • Jason Patel and Ben Hardy in Unicorns.

    Unicorns review – mechanic meets drag queen in touching drama with real-world edge

  • Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump.

    Forrest Gump at 30: a wildly popular movie that remains as light as a feather

3 July 2024

  • Warm and open … l to r, Ben Hardy as Luke and Jason Patel as Aysha in Unicorns.

    Unicorns review – drama of queer south Asian club culture with added superstar drag queens

    Jason Patel is excellent as drag queen Aysha in Sally El Hosaini’s new film, but the scenes where Aysha visits her parents as Ashiq really steal the show
  • Julio Torres and Tilda Swinton in Problemista

    Problemista review – quirky hipster comedy lets Tilda Swinton go for the laughs

    Swinton almost, but not quite, rescues this film by SNL star Julio Torres with its Wes Anderson-esque onslaught of cutesy kookiness
  • Stellan Skarsgård in What Remains. © CAA Media / Courtesy Everett Collection

    What Remains review – sky squid confounds Stellan Skarsgård in true-life Scandi noir

    Skarsgård and his son Gustaf sparkle in Ran Huang’s rarefied film, but can’t rescue this weirdly hallucinatory murder mystery from falling flat

1 July 2024

  • Film still: The Nature of Love. dir: Monia Cokri

    The Nature of Love review – philosophy professor’s life spiced up by rugged labourer

  • Ollie West in The Sparrow.

    The Sparrow review – grief and guilt haunt teenager in dark West Cork tale

June 2024

  • Kevin Costner holding a pistol in his outstretched right hand.

    Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 review – Kevin Costner’s unapologetically old-school western

  • This image released by Searchlight Pictures shows Emma Stone, foreground left, and Jesse Plemons in a scene from "Kinds of Kindness." (Atsushi Nishijima/Searchlight Pictures via AP)

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Kinds of Kindness review – Yorgos Lanthimos reunites with Emma Stone for overlong but admirable triptych

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