Movies in the Drama genre

The Smashing Machine is one of those biopics that falls into the trap of trying to do too much within a limited span of time. The tapestry woven by writer/director Benny Safdie is so dense that he might have had a better chance of realizing his vi...

The Social Reckoning should not be mistaken for a sequel to The Social Network, despite some obvious synergies. The critically lauded 2010 film focused on Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Although Zuckerberg (now played by Jeremy Strong) has a pr...

When you make a movie like this well, it turns out something like Braveheart. When you make it poorly, you get The Uprising. Loosely based on the 1381 so-called "Peasants' Revolt" in England, the film purports to tell how three men – the unn...

Over the years, World War II has proven to be fertile territory for the motion picture industry – so much so that nearly every conceivable tale, event, and “angle” has been covered. However, although the “nothing new under the sun” p...

This is the sort of movie that gives “chick flicks” a bad name. It’s a cross between inept melodrama and a bad sit-com. The “comedy” (for lack of a better word) is obvious, poorly timed, and not especially funny. The “drama” (again, f...

James Marsh's The Theory of Everything is an unremarkable bio-pic about a remarkable man. Its ordinariness is in large part compensated for by an extraordinary performance from lead actor Eddy Redmayne. Those looking for a chronology of the life of...

The best things about Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood are not elements that will build large audiences. This is a film about character development/disintegration and a comprehensive look at the early days of the oil industry. The more ...

Thieves is André Téchiné's followup to his unexpectedly successful 1995 art-house entry, Wild Reeds. In fact, Téchiné drew so much interest for his installment of the French TV series, All the Boys and Girls of the World, that Filmopolis Pict...

Things We Lost in the Fire represents Danish-born Susanne Bier's first foray into studio-funded American cinema. The transition is seamless - Bier's signature style of simple shots and frequent close-ups remains intact and her choice of material f...

Sometimes, I wonder how the human races survives it. By "it," I am referring to that seemingly insurmountable time of life when body chemistry and societal pressures conspire to make every day seem like a titanic struggle - the teenage years. Eve...