#character-driven-drama

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from48 hills
1 week ago

Screen Grabs: A soft spot for 'Sentimental Value' - 48 hills

Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt create intelligent, human-scale films exploring family, depression, and the artistic life through nuanced character-driven narratives.
Television
fromVulture
1 week ago

Down Cemetery Road Recap: Back From the Dead

Down Cemetery Road blends cozy, quippy tone with probing emotional depth, showing how dangerous, death‑filled jobs drain characters' light and humanity.
Film
fromThe Nation
1 month ago

A Different Kind of Heist Movie

A restless suburban man organizes a bungled daylight museum heist to escape middle-class life, driven by resentment and ambition.
Film
fromFilmmaker Magazine
1 month ago

Greenlight Coverage Celebrates Gotham Week Partnership and Recognizes Top Three Projects (Sponsored Post)

Three screenplays—The Ballad of Tita and the Machines, The Poem, and The Camford Experiment—received top marks for storytelling, originality, and thematic depth.
fromInverse
1 month ago

'The Mastermind' Redefines the Heist Movie

Her shaggy, '70s-set film starring Josh O'Connor as the orchestrator of an art museum robbery gone wrong, channels the kind of shaggy '70s capers that defined the genre - without any of the sleek, satisfying results of a heist flick. Instead, The Mastermind feels more true to the sinuous core of '70s neo-noir like Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye: meandering, pensive, and melancholy.
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Television
fromVulture
1 month ago

The Diplomat Recap: You Think You Know Someone!

Strategy and relationship scenes culminate in Trowbridge publicly blaming President Rayburn for the HMS Courageous attack, shifting global blame onto President Penn and the U.S.
Film
fromwww.london-unattached.com
2 months ago

The Weir at the Harold Pinter Theatre Review

Tension and tenderness arise among lonely pub patrons through understated storytelling, silences, and charismatic, naturalistic performances.
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