Drama
For the first 90 minutes, Rust and Bone is stereotypical art house fare. The French-Belgian film centers on Stephanie (Marion Cotillard), a whale trainer who has both legs cut off in a terrible accident. We see her hit rock bot...
It’s not hard to miss the controversy at the core of Zero Dark Thirty, director Kathryn Bigelow’s (The Hurt Locker) drama about the pursuit of Osama Bin Laden. The movie opens with a scene in which CIA agent Dan (Jason Clarke)...
Based on Paul Lieberman’s Tales from the Gangster Squad, Gangster Squad has a good premise. It centers on Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn), an ex-boxer who’s trying to be the main mob boss in L.A. in 1949. So ruthless that he chains a ...
The Impossible, a new film from Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona (The Orphanage), benefits from the fact that it has built-in drama. Based on the true story of a family that somehow survived the horrible tsunami that ripped...
A drama about fracking? Are you fracking serious? Hard to imagine that discriminating director Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, Milk) thought Matt Damon and John Krasinski’s Promised Land screenplay — which is based on a Dave E...
We read Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables in French class, saw the musical stage adaptation three times and know most of the words to the non-stop sung dialogue, so we’re no strangers to the story of ex-convict Jean Valjean. Impriso...