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Drama films

12 March 2025

  • Sandy Dennis and Ian McKellen in A Touch of Love.

    A Touch of Love review – Margaret Drabble’s single-mother drama is a vivid 60s time capsule

    This Drabble adaptation about a PhD student who gets pregnant is kitchen-sinky but without humour or even awareness. It’s an interesting curio

11 March 2025

  • a man and a woman walking in the countryside

    First look review
    The Rivals of Amziah King review – Matthew McConaughey returns with unwieldy misstep

  • Graham (Josh Radnor) and Sue (Becky Ann Baker) in All Happy Families.

    All Happy Families review – childhood home is renovation project in likable indie drama

  • Film still: Satu: Year of the Rabbit (2025) written and directed by Joshua Trigg

    Satu – Year of the Rabbit review – scene-stealing runaways on picturesque road trip across Laos

  • Peter Dinklage in American Dreamer

    American Dreamer review – Peter Dinklage is charmer in oddball tale of eccentric inheritance

9 March 2025

  • Danny Dyer about to throw a punch with five other men around him

    Marching Powder review – coke-fuelled comedy doesn’t pull its punches

    Danny Dyer plays a football thug in the last chance saloon in Nick Love’s stressful but self-mocking film

8 March 2025

  • Joana Santos in On Falling.

    On Falling – heartbreaking study of a warehouse worker’s yearning loneliness

    Director Laura Carreira’s superb debut feature is reminiscent of Ken Loach in its humane portrayal of soul-destroying work

6 March 2025

  • Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich.

    Erin Brockovich review – Julia Roberts’ glamorous turn as an underdog lawyer

    Steven Soderbergh’s true story of a paralegal who takes on corporate villains seems a little old-fashioned 25 years on

5 March 2025

  • The Leopard<br>This photo released by Netflix shows Kim Rossi Stuart as Fabrizio in episode 104 of The Leopard. (Lucia Iuorio/Netflix via AP)

    TV review
    The Leopard review – this sultry Italian drama will leave you swooning

    Netflix’s adaptation of the classic novel isn’t just a steamy, sumptuous treat that’s packed with nice food. It’s also a sharp look at how the ruling classes survive social upheaval

3 March 2025

  • Eloise Smyth and Stephanie Beacham in Grey Matter.

    Grey Matter review – feelgood Alzheimer’s film is well-meaning life-lesson comedy

  • Benny O Arthur as James Baldwin in Jimmy

    Jimmy review – lyrical and impressionistic vision of James Baldwin in 1940s Paris

2 March 2025

  • Adrien Brody at the Oscar nominees’ reception on 25 February.

    Adrien Brody wins best actor Oscar for The Brutalist

    Former youngest-ever winner of best actor Oscar wins award again for his portrayal of fictional architect in Brady Corbet’s epic drama
  • Kieran Culkin at the 97th Oscars

    Kieran Culkin wins best supporting actor Oscar for A Real Pain

    Succession actor adds to the Golden Globe and Bafta he had already won for his performance in Jesse Eisenberg’s serio-comic film

    • Papa review – Hong Kong drama about grieving father is a ghoulish waste

    • Superboys of Malegaon review – amateur Indian film-makers reach for the stars

    • Wendy Ide's film of the week
      The Last Showgirl review – Pamela Anderson gives performance of a lifetime in rhinestone-studded tale

1 March 2025

  • Yorgos Tsiantoulas, right, and Andreas Labropoulos in The Summer With Carmen.

    The Summer With Carmen review – crisply observed Greek film-making comedy

    Two friends on a gay nudist beach are tasked with writing a low-budget movie in this fabulously frothy tale about love and a stray dog
  • Ken Russell in 2011.

    Mark Kermode on film
    Mark Kermode on… director Ken Russell, the king of cult classics who was so much more than a sensationalist

    Half a century on from the sublimely ridiculous Tommy, the passionate abandon that distinguished Russell’s films – from composer biopics to the infamous The Devils, among other bonkers oddities – is needed now more than ever
  • AIMEE LOU WOOD Photographer: Hollie Fernando Styling: Melanie Wilkinson; Styling Assistant: Sam Deaman; Hair: Halley Brisker; Make up: Alex Babsky; Set Design: Penny Mills, Set design assistants, Tilly-Rose Evans and Ayesha Linton-Whittle BLAZER, SHIRT, PIN AND EMBELLISHED SKIRT, ALL ERDEM. EMBELLISHED HEELS, JIMMY CHOO.

    ‘I don’t know whether I’d describe it as fun’: Aimee Lou Wood on the intensity of making The White Lotus

    She is the Sex Education star now stealing the show in Mike White’s hit series and about to appear in a gritty new Netflix drama. It’s all she ever wanted – but somehow, this ‘sad and shy’ actor finds folding the washing more rewarding than fame

February 2025

  • a man wearing a blue shirt looks up in fear

    Last Breath review – thrilling underwater survival drama

    Woody Harrelson and Simu Liu star in a terrifyingly well-constructed adaptation of a documentary about a nightmarish accident
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