drama

Faraway is a satisfying middle-of-the-road drama of self-discovery with a tinge of romance as a mother learns to find herself again.

The Sparrow gives nothing away easily and holds you so tightly all the way through until the very last frame in this tale of death and caged birds.

Aisha takes the asylum system that most everyone knows to be awful and demonstrates just how much so through the eyes of somebody going through it.

Fulbari is a family drama demonstrating how familial expectations impact every generation while never attempting to declare one or another right.

Luther: The Fallen Sun delivers a film experience worthy of its titular detective, testing his drive for justice in the process.

Return to Seoul is an exceptionally well-depicted and emotional journey of reconciling with birth parents and their country, langue, culture, and choices.

While it takes too long to get to its emotional third act, Call Me Chihiro has a subtle power to its delivery that will linger.

All the Places doesn’t have bells or whistles, just a straightforward journey between two siblings who have a few lessons worth learning together.

Stromboli is a fine movie about how finding community and communicating can help even the most stubborn and beleaguered people heal from trauma.

Close is a movie that thrives off of constructing a world where pain is the point and has no reason for being other than to traumatize its children.