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Drama films

10 September 2024

  • Suppressed despair … Juliet Stevenson as Mary and Jared Harris as John in Reawakening

    Reawakening review – thought-provoking drama as missing daughter returns ten years later

    Virginia Gilbert’s film sees Juliet Stevenson and Jared Harris divided on whether to believe the young woman claiming to be their child
  • Amrit Kaur and Kya Mosey in The Queen of My Dreams.

    Fawzia Mirza and Amrit Kaur on The Queen of My Dreams: ‘People want to hear more queer Muslim stories’

    Mirza’s feature debut may have started with a wish to better understand her conservative Pakistani mother, but the joy it finds as it hops from 90s Canada to 60s Karachi speaks to big questions about south Asian identities
  • Searching for something … Nabhaan Rizwan in In Camera

    In Camera review – young actor faces endless auditions in disorienting industry satire

    Nabhaan Rizwan is terrific as he faces the depressing realities and prejudices of trying to break into films in Naqqash Khalid’s brilliantly confident debut

9 September 2024

  • woman wearing white and black top and pearls

    First look review
    Without Blood review – Angelina Jolie’s lacklustre war drama is another misfire

  • close-up of man and woman touching foreheads

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    The Return review – Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche reunite in drab drama

8 September 2024

  • Alicia Vikander and Elizabeth Olsen in The Assessment.

    First look review
    The Assessment review – Alicia Vikander is future parents’ worst nightmare

  • man wearing glasses and white hat holds out white bottle towards person wearing blue helmet and striped tank l

    First look review
    The Fire Inside review – blazing boxing drama packs a serious punch

  • Alicia Vikander as Katherine Parr and Jude Law as Henry VIII.

    Firebrand review – magnetic Alicia Vikander and glorious Jude Law lift cautious Tudor court drama

  • man doing a press up

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    Unstoppable review – Jennifer Lopez and Jharrel Jerome lift routine sports drama

  • Rebel Ridge review – Aaron Pierre impresses in small-town US action thriller

  • Starve Acre review – Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark hole up in brooding Yorkshire folk-horror

7 September 2024

  • Juliette Gariépy as Kelly-Anne in Red Rooms.

    Red Rooms review – dark, unnerving French-language chiller

  • Pamela Anderson in The Last Showgirl

    First look review
    The Last Showgirl review – Pamela Anderson’s big comeback is a big disappointment

  • This image released by A24 shows Florence Pugh, left, and Andrew Garfield in a scene from "We Live In Time." (A24 via AP)

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    We Live in Time review – Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh charm in heartfelt weepie

  • julianne moore looking fondly up at tilda swinton ahead of the venice premiere of almodovar's the room next door

    Venice film festival 2024 roundup – Nicole Kidman gets carnal and Lady Gaga goes crazy

6 September 2024

  • Angry and articulate … Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Pansy in Hard Truths

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    Hard Truths review – a Mike Leigh classic of day-to-day disillusionment and courage

  • Orlando Bloom in The Cut

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    The Cut review – Orlando Bloom goes through hell in sordid boxing thriller

5 September 2024

  • April.

    April review – Dea Kulumbegashvili comes into her own with haunting abortion drama

    Shocking violence is tempered by strange, silent sequences in a sophomore feature about an obstetrician under investigation, in which buried trauma has echoes of The Piano Teacher

4 September 2024

  • Two men stand facing each other outside

    Rebel Ridge review – electrifying Netflix crime thriller is a knockout

  • Marie Benati in Paul and Paulette Take a Bath.

    Paul and Paulette Take a Bath review – misjudged romance takes wince-inducing wrong turn

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