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Drama films

May 2025

  • Peg o' My Heart

    Peg o’ My Heart review – Hong Kong’s disordered dream life is focus of Lynchian thriller

    Set in the aftermath of the 2008 crash, Nick Cheung’s film follows a loose-cannon psychiatrist through a city deranged by stock-market storms

April 2025

  • TWINS OF EVIL, (aka TWINS OF DRACULA), Damien Thomas (top), Luan Peters, 1971<br>2GP49RT TWINS OF EVIL, (aka TWINS OF DRACULA), Damien Thomas (top), Luan Peters, 1971

    Damien Thomas obituary

  • Anapela Polataivao wearing a dress with frangipani print in different colours, and a hibiscus behind one ear, gesturing with one arm and smiling at something off camera.

    Tinā review – a feelgood choir drama that follows a winning formula

  • Slade in Flame.

    Slade in Flame review – Midlands glam rockers offer A Hard Day’s Night meets Get Carter

  • Film still: Bury Us in a Lone Desert

    Bury Us in a Lone Desert review – moving and macabre odd-couple road trip

  • Sexual abuse in sport
    ‘Where is the adult?’: how Leonardo Van Dijl filmed the story of a child tennis star’s abuse

  • Tendaberry review – dreamlike drama of a young woman alone in New York

  • Treading Water review – hard-hitting drug addiction drama is not for the faint-hearted

  • How we made
    ‘Every slap we got from the screws was real’: Ray Winstone on brutal borstal drama Scum

  • Cloud review – bizarre internet action thriller descends into hail of bullets

  • The Penguin Lessons review – Steve Coogan outshone by his feathered friend in 70s Argentina comedy drama

  • The Wedding Banquet review – muddled gay comedy remake plays it too straight

  • The Penguin Lessons review – Steve Coogan seabird comedy drama tries to sell feelgood mood

  • Eclipse review – Tom Conti stars in intriguing but elusive 70s tale of a mysterious death

  • The Return review – Ralph Fiennes’s Homeric hero finds his way home to outstanding Juliette Binoche

  • Observer New Review Q&A
    Iraq veteran and film-maker Ray Mendoza: ‘Writing Warfare with Alex Garland was like going to a therapist’

  • Holy Cow review – unlikely French teen cheesemaker drama with a big heart

  • Marty at 70: the underdog best-picture winner remains hard to resist

  • The Return review – Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes bring fierce class to elemental Odyssey adaptation

  • Holy Cow review – warmhearted story of smalltown teen turned competition cheesemaker

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