“The Drama” Reviews Are In
While “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” will take the lion’s share of attention in cinemas when it opens tomorrow, another film that’s opening is the Zendaya and Robert Pattinson-led “The Drama”.
The project hails from Norwegian filmmaker Kristoffer Borgli, best known for the Nic Cage-led 2023 film “Dream Scenario”. Set days before their wedding, “The Drama” follows a couple’s relationship. That is shaken when one partner discovers unsettling truths about the other.
The film is getting fairly positive reviews. With 39 reviews counted its at a quite good 85% on Rotten Tomatoes, but a not so good 64/100 on Metacritic.
Reviews paint the picture that this is very much in line with Borgli’s prior work, so those expecting a standard rom-com are going to be in for a big shock as the R-rated A24 title takes no prisoners in some ways. Here’s a breakdown of reviews:
“You’ve got to say this much for Kristoffer Borgli: In ‘The Drama’ he’s an original, like the bastard stepchild of Dogme 95 and ‘Wedding Crashers.’” – Owen Gleiberman, Variety
“Borgli has made something genuinely rare here: a relationship film with real teeth, one that refuses to let either its characters, or its audience, off the hook.” – Linda Marric, HeyUGuys
“Hell is always other people in Borgli’s films, and this one — if thinner and more rhetorical than his others — stands out for how sharply it details the freefall down from heaven.” – David Ehrlich, Indiewire
“It’s provocative and compulsively watchable — a romcom that obliterates the very meaning of the word by thrusting love underneath the psychoanalyst’s microscope and tearing laughter by force from its audience’s throats.” – Clarisse Loughrey, Independent
“A wonderfully thorny exploration of primordial desires for connection, destruction, and stability. Don’t expect any genuine relationship advice, but also be warned that this is not a glib exercise in aimless edginess.” – Natalie Keogan, AV Club
“One of the boldest, brashest movies in some time… When not giddily tearing apart the rom-com, Borgli asks really major thematic questions with his controversial subject matter.” – Brian Truitt, USA Today
“What gives this glib, circuitous film the right to persecute the apathetic when it barely understands its own characters?” – Robert Daniels, RogerEbert.com
“A handsomely made, sharply performed letdown. It is yet another example of a far too common occurrence: a kicky logline premise having no real structure behind it.” – Richard Lawson, THR
“The Drama” opens on Friday and is said to be targeting a 3-day opening of around $15 million.
“The Drama” Reviews Are In
While “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” will take the lion’s share of attention in cinemas when it opens tomorrow, another film that’s opening is the Zendaya and Robert Pattinson-led “The Drama”.
The project hails from Norwegian filmmaker Kristoffer Borgli, best known for the Nic Cage-led 2023 film “Dream Scenario”. Set days before their wedding, “The Drama” follows a couple’s relationship. That is shaken when one partner discovers unsettling truths about the other.
The film is getting fairly positive reviews. With 39 reviews counted its at a quite good 85% on Rotten Tomatoes, but a not so good 64/100 on Metacritic.
Reviews paint the picture that this is very much in line with Borgli’s prior work, so those expecting a standard rom-com are going to be in for a big shock as the R-rated A24 title takes no prisoners in some ways. Here’s a breakdown of reviews:
“You’ve got to say this much for Kristoffer Borgli: In ‘The Drama’ he’s an original, like the bastard stepchild of Dogme 95 and ‘Wedding Crashers.’” – Owen Gleiberman, Variety
“Borgli has made something genuinely rare here: a relationship film with real teeth, one that refuses to let either its characters, or its audience, off the hook.” – Linda Marric, HeyUGuys
“Hell is always other people in Borgli’s films, and this one — if thinner and more rhetorical than his others — stands out for how sharply it details the freefall down from heaven.” – David Ehrlich, Indiewire
“It’s provocative and compulsively watchable — a romcom that obliterates the very meaning of the word by thrusting love underneath the psychoanalyst’s microscope and tearing laughter by force from its audience’s throats.” – Clarisse Loughrey, Independent
“A wonderfully thorny exploration of primordial desires for connection, destruction, and stability. Don’t expect any genuine relationship advice, but also be warned that this is not a glib exercise in aimless edginess.” – Natalie Keogan, AV Club
“One of the boldest, brashest movies in some time… When not giddily tearing apart the rom-com, Borgli asks really major thematic questions with his controversial subject matter.” – Brian Truitt, USA Today
“What gives this glib, circuitous film the right to persecute the apathetic when it barely understands its own characters?” – Robert Daniels, RogerEbert.com
“A handsomely made, sharply performed letdown. It is yet another example of a far too common occurrence: a kicky logline premise having no real structure behind it.” – Richard Lawson, THR
“The Drama” opens on Friday and is said to be targeting a 3-day opening of around $15 million.