The human experience, sometimes at its most raw, is what you’ll find in the drama tag.
Like nearly every well-crafted film about Black oppression in America, Judas and the Messiah will enrage you, tire you out, and make you hope J. Edgar Hoover and his enablers, rot in hell.
The 16 minutes of Jason Park’s BJ’s Mobile Gift Shop will leave you demanding a full-length feature film, featuring Johnnyboy Tellem before 2021 is over.
Ava From My Class pushes you to wonder where the line between admiration and a crush is for its young lead.
Dealing with insurance companies can often be hell, but surely if you see the agent face to face, they’ll help you right?
Mayday touches on the personal war one has within themselves and every single voice or person we see as holding us back – including our own.
Marvelous and the Black Hole, while it can come off as an angsty teenage film, it doesn’t push its lead to move on or get over it but harness that anger into something good.
While the sometimes volatile intimacy between Ruth Negga and Tessa Thompson makes Passing interesting, you may not feel it confronts the subject matter as you want.
We’ve all seen some version of Romeo and Juliet, but none of them compare to Carey Williams’ R#J.
How It Ends combines a drama about reconciliation before the end of the world and all the eccentric people you’d expect to see getting high before everyone dies.
The Little Things is a tame cop drama in which the sole interesting thing might be Jared Leto getting to play a manipulative suspect.
Many young adults worldwide take advantage of privacy, which isn’t legally available to our two leads. But will they risk getting arrested to get it?
In Doublespeak, you are sorely reminded how Human Resources is more focused on protecting the company’s assets than your dignity or sense of safety.
Stanley buries the lead with sex and ends before you feel it gets to the good part.
A man with a secret finds himself in the company of the other person who knows what he lusts for.
In It’s A Sin, we’re reminded what can matter more than the right school or job is finding your people — especially if you’re gay men in the 80s.
In White Lie, you watch as a con artist desperately tries to maintain their story of having cancer, seemingly by any means necessary.
While Our Friend is certain to get you in your emotions and remind you how charming Jason Segel is, it’s excessive time jumps may mess with your experience.
American Skin is a confrontational film. One which confronts your views of police, their victims, and the perspectives the police bring based in fear and a righteous sense of duty.
The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina comes to an end, and, honestly, you’re reminded more so of where the series went wrong than what it did right.
Redo of Healer is a revenge story that may make you think of The Rising of the Shield Hero, but this is far more graphic, violent, and Keyaru’s revenge is active.
What begins as a story about an adorable recluse becomes a rather bloody tale about how the lead character’s friend committed suicide.
Dr. Bird’s Advice For Sad Poets is draining, beautiful, yet a reminder that there is no instant cure or end to the struggle of making progress. Sometimes just an occasional reprieve.
Bridgerton on its surface can be breezy and a quick watch. However, if you choose to analyze it, it can be far deeper than a girl finding love in a newly diverse world.
“If Not Now, When?” in exploring the struggle to maintain long relationships, reminds you why all the work is ultimately worth it.
Pieces of a Woman is the type of cinema that may benefit from a streaming release as moments come when you need to pause and walk away for a moment.
Like Kemp Powers’ “Soul,” “One Night In Miami” leaves you searching for meaning in past actions and contemplating your path in life going forward.
Alaska Is A Drag reminds you how much hope one can have when you have someone in your corner and find people who not just accept but love you.
The Last Shift taps into a quieter story, minus any grandstanding, to allow two characters to be challenged by one another and learn something despite their differences.
Shondaland takes its second crack at doing a period piece by focusing on a drama with a Gossip Girl spin and a social season in which many young ladies vie for the best bachelors.
UMC’s newest show For The Love of Jason has everything it needs, except enough episodes to not feel a bit rushed.
Based on the 1883 Italian The Adventures of Pinocchio, this version of Pinocchio is dark, maybe not the best for kids, but so weird that it’s good.
Like most Pixar films, Soul bridges what is expected from animated films aimed at children and the type of stories that can bring adults to tears.
I Remember asks you to forgive it’s lead tells, as he gets the chance to live out his dream of dating the girl who always seemed out of his league.
While Industry does not have every character live up to its potential, Myha’la Herrold and Ken Leung damn near save the show.
Promising Young Woman challenges the revenge narrative you are used to and pushes you to expect more from future stories in the sub-genre.
As with most of OWN’s “OWN For The Holidays,” First Christmas pushes new narratives beyond the Christmas formula, which might be the best one yet.
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom gives you what you expect from Viola Davis, and in Chadwick Boseman’s final film, he makes it clear he could excel in a role of someone not already an icon.
Despite how predictable Fatale may seem, based on its trailer, believe me when I say it just uses the familiar to make you think you know what’s going to happen.
While the longing looks and stolen moments will entice you, it’s hard to move past how Sylvie’s Love begins soiled.