The Drama

It’s an exceedingly black comedy threaded through with intense drama that completely deconstructs the rom-com, casting it as both a shiny and sinister thing… and one frequently inducing vomiting.

The Drama is a cinematic Trojan horse: it's a breezy farce that feels uncomfortably ominous, and it's also a star-studded romance movie which could set off a discourse bomb.

The Drama, for all its heat, is not perfect. I wasn’t won over by its climactic series of calamities that fall in rapid succession like dominoes at the end. However, most movies are completely forgotten by the time the credits roll. This one, like it or not, lingers for days. It’ll likely wind up one of the most controversial movies of the year.

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.”

Its comedy is successfully awkward and discomfiting until it’s evident Borgli isn’t interested in exploring people so much as using their mistakes as gristle to create an endless sprawl of socially awkward scenarios with all the grace and interpersonal cognizance of an edgelord. It is only through the sheer force of the actors involved that the movie is engaging and entertaining.

It’s worth half your attention. You might use the other half to mourn the memory of what movies, even enjoyably mediocre ones, used to be.

I save the zero star designation for movies that I think have no redeeming value whatsoever or are morally repugnant. “The Drama” meets both criteria.

Not sure if it’s the teen psychologist in me, the magic of Zendaya, or just the film doing exactly what it’s supposed to; but I was team Emma the whole way. Morally ambiguous, well-acted, heartfelt, and genuinely fun. Wouldn’t mind Zendaya and Pattinson as leads in just about anything. More of this, please.

Another celebrity bait movie. I was confused why rotten tomatoes score was so high and have now converted to Metacritic. The plot twist for this movie is fun, definite conversation stirrer. But after that the movie gets a bit boring.

A24 winds up making yet another film that is not particularly entertaining nor useful.

Original Idea, Weak Movie The Drama is a very average movie.That is probably the simplest and most honest way to describe it. It is not terrible. It is not badly made. It is not painful to sit through. But it is also not especially memorable, not especially moving, and not really worth going to the cinema for.I came in with higher expectations, especially because the film has proper character actors in it. So the acting was a bit disappointing. Not bad — let’s be fair — but also nothing special. With actors like that, I expected more. I expected scenes with more bite, more tension, more emotional detail. Instead, the performances were mostly fine. Competent. Watchable. But not the kind of acting that stays with you **** strongest part of the film is definitely the **** idea itself is quite original, and that is where the movie earns some credit. It has a unique setup, a strange world, and a tone that gives it some personality. The world-building is also fine. Not amazing, but interesting enough to make the film feel like it is at least trying to do something different.That is important, because without the originality of the premise, there would honestly not be much **** film works best as a dark comedy. That is clearly where its strongest moments are. There are a few scenes where the dark humour lands well, and when it does, the movie briefly becomes the sharper, stranger, more memorable film it maybe should have been all along. But there were not enough of those moments for me. A dark comedy needs more sting. It needs more bite. It needs to make you laugh and feel slightly uncomfortable at the same **** Drama does that **** only **** soundtrack did not stand out to me at all. I barely noticed it, which usually means one of two things: either it was very subtle, or it simply did not add much. In this case, I lean toward the second. It was not bad, but it did not elevate the film either. No scene became more powerful because of the music. No moment stayed with me because of the **** cinematography was also nothing special. Again, not bad. Just standard. The film looks fine, but there is nothing visually striking enough to make it feel like a cinema experience. That is one of the main problems. When I pay to watch a movie in a theater, I want some reason why it needed to be seen there. With this one, I did not feel **** pacing and editing were fine. Normal. Nothing dragged too badly, but nothing had exceptional rhythm either. It moved along at an acceptable pace, but without much energy. The film never completely lost me, but it also never fully pulled me in.Emotionally, it did very little.I was not deeply affected by it. I did not leave the cinema thinking about the characters. I did not feel moved, shaken, excited or challenged. I mostly just felt like I had watched a decent idea turned into an okay movie. That is probably the most frustrating thing about it: there is a better film hiding somewhere inside this **** ending was strange. Not strange in a brilliant way, where you leave confused but fascinated. More strange in the sense that I was not entirely sure what the movie was really trying to say. Maybe I understood it, and maybe the point just was not that interesting. That sounds harsh, but that is the danger with films like this. If you build everything around an unusual concept, then the final meaning has to land. Here, it did not really land for **** overall, The Drama is fine.That is the **** has an original plot, a few good dark humour moments, and a premise that gives it some identity. But the acting is only okay, the cinematography is ordinary, the soundtrack is forgettable, and the film does not leave much of an emotional **** is not trash. But it is not something I would recommend spending cinema money on **** Drama is the kind of film that might work better at home, on a random evening, when expectations are lower and the cost of watching it is basically just your time. In the cinema, it felt too average. Too thin. Too “that was fine, I guess.”And “fine, I guess” is not exactly a strong reason to buy a ticket.

Garbage. Writing is childish and the direction lacks creativity while the acting lacks commitment.