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- Alex Bentley @ CultureMap Dallas
- Excerpt: The situation in which Emma and Charlie find themselves in The Drama is not one to be wished on anyone, but it’s presented well by Borgli, keeping tensions high for the bulk of the film. Despite the two main characters not given completely equal footing, the story finds a way to get to a satisfactory ending.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Borgli has specialized in a type of dark comedy where people’s worst impulses spiral out of control. But while that is also true of his latest, what he’s pinned on Emma is a really questionable choice to mine for comedy.
- [New] | Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Zendaya and Robert Pattinson play a couple having an awkward exchange. What starts as discomfort slowly becomes something strangely compelling.
- [New] | Kristian Lin @ Fort Worth Weekly
- Excerpt: While we’ve all seen comedies about weddings where everything goes to hell, I guarantee that you haven’t seen one like this.
- [New] | Matt Oakes @ Silver Screen Riot
- Excerpt: ‘The Drama’ finds Zendaya and Robert Pattinson pulling apart at the seams in Kristoffer Borgli’s incisive, destabilizing anti-rom-com, a nervy A24 anxiety spiral that sits comfortably alongside ‘Uncut Gems’ and ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’.
- [New] | Josh Thayer @ The Forgetful Film Critic
- Excerpt: The Drama is essentially cringe-comedy using one of our nation’s most shameful and horrific attributes as the driver for the laughs. Even Michael Scott would find what Borgli is doing here to be distasteful. Despite Pattinson and Zendaya’s best efforts, they can’t rescue this ill-advised black comedy.
- [New] | Sebastian Zavala @ Cinencuentro.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: By addressing a sensitive and potentially controversial topic through a narrative full of unexpected twists, the film prompts viewers to have interesting post-screening conversations.
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