Drama Reviews
American Beauty (1999)
A suburban time bomb wrapped in rose petals, American Beauty is the rare Best Picture winner that actually earns the title.
Jay Wilde
The Holdovers (2023)
A grumpy classics teacher, a cafeteria lady in mourning, and a troubled kid walk into a Christmas break at a New England boarding school. It sounds like a setup for cheap sentiment. It is anything but.
Jay Wilde
Drive (2011)
Nicolas Winding Refn turns a stuntman with a scorpion jacket into the most violent fairy tale of the twenty-first century. This is not a car chase film. This is a horror film that happens to have a steering wheel.
Jay Wilde
Reversal of Fortune (1990)
Irons at his most chillingly enigmatic, a courtroom thriller where you never stop guessing and never quite get the answer.
Jay Wilde
The Departed (2006)
A mole in the mob, a cop in the wire, and Scorsese finally holding the gold. Boston has never been this dangerous.
Jay Wilde
Ed Wood (1994)
Tim Burton's black-and-white love letter to the worst director of all time is, ironically, one of his very best films.
Jay Wilde
Infernal Affairs (2002)
A mole in the police and a cop in the triads. Hong Kong's sharpest thriller plays chess with identity, loyalty, and the thin line between law and chaos.
Jay Wilde
Thelma & Louise (1991)
A road movie that doubles as a powder keg. Callie Khouri's Oscar-winning script and Ridley Scott's direction turn two ordinary women's weekend getaway into one of American cinema's great acts of defiance.
Jay Wilde
Rocky (1976)
A nobody from Philadelphia wrote a script, starred in it, and turned a $1 million film into the most unlikely Best Picture winner Hollywood had ever seen.
Jay Wilde
Solaris (1972)
Tarkovsky's monumental sci-fi meditation on memory, love, and the limits of human understanding, set aboard a space station haunted by manifestations of guilt.
Jay Wilde