drama

Eschewing aesthetic flash, Juror #2 is a classically effective drama that thrives off of impeccable staging and layered performances.

Nevertheless: The Shapes of Love hits the ground running, leaving questions as to whether or not the series will scrape beyond the surface.

Amy Adams is excellent as always, but, unfortunately, Nightbitch needed to sharpen its fangs, but instead, it plays it safe.

Nickel Boys is breathtaking in its suffocating beauty. Transcendent and painful, RaMell Ross delivers a haunting adapation.

Steve McQueen’s latest, the visually lush Blitz, follows a nine-year-old boy and his perilous journey to return home.

Territory follows a family run cattle empire as it struggles with challenges from within and sees mixed results.

Rez Ball is well within the established sports movie formula, but its setting and cast of characters make it feel entirely fresh.

Form, feel, and style pervade in The Brutalist, whose very construction informs its weighty meditation on American mythmaking.

Luca Guadagnino’s Queer is so overpowering and mesmeric, that it becomes almost instinctual to fall under its sultry spell.

Even if “The Room Next Door” is a minor entry in his canon, Almodóvar still understands how to stir and scintillate.