About SSP
Personal Links
Tag Archives: Drama
Review in Brief: Another Round (2020)
Alcohol: the great social liberator and the great destroyer, or as Homer Simpson famously put it “the cause of, and solution to all of life’s problems”. ANOTHER ROUND follows a group of middle-class friends and teachers in Denmark who experiment … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief
Tagged Another Round, Comedy, Drama, Mads Mikkelsen, Oscars, Thomas Bo Larsen, Thomas Vinterberg, World Cinema
Leave a comment
Review in Brief: Supernova (2020)
SUPERNOVA is a drama as much about what is left unsaid to loved ones as it is about living with dementia. We follow Sam (Colin Firth) and Tusker (Stanley Tucci) an artistic couple who are on holiday in the Lake … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief
Tagged Colin Firth, Drama, Harry Macqueen, Stanley Tucci, Supernova
Leave a comment
Review in Brief: The Father (2020)
There have been many dementia dramas but few that attempt to put audiences in the POV of the person slipping away. THE FATHER is best seen with as little prior reading as possible, the tricky-clever ways the very building blocks … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief
Tagged Anthony Hopkins, Drama, Florian Zeller, Imogen Poots, Mark Gatiss, Olivia Colman, Olivia Williams, Oscars, Rufus Sewell, The Father
Leave a comment
Review in Brief: Rare Beasts (2019/21)
Billie Piper’s directorial debut RARE BEASTS is one of the funniest and most profound, but also perhaps the most uncomfortable of films to watch this year. From an opening dinner date scene incorporating discussion of “gummy blowjobs”, Piper is completely … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief
Tagged Billie Piper, Black Comedy, David Thewlis, Drama, Kerry Fox, Leo Bill, Rare Beasts, Toby Woolf
Leave a comment
Review in Brief: Black Bear (2020/21)
There have been plenty of meta, reality-bending films about writing a screenplay, many from this century made by Charlie Kaufman. BLACK BEAR boasts a wonderful performance from Aubrey Plaza as an actor turned-writer-director looking for inspiration, but asks you to … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief
Tagged Aubrey Plaza, Black Bear, Black Comedy, Christopher Abbott, Drama, Lawrence Michael Levine, Sarah Gadon
Leave a comment
Review in Brief: Nomadland (2020)
Arguably no filmmaker since Agnés Varda has blended elements of documentary and fiction together as effectively as Chloé Zhao. NOMADLAND’s narrative is loose and meandering, but only to reflect the Nomad on-the-move, purposeful and yet purposeless lifestyle. Following industrial collapse … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief
Tagged Chloé Zhao, Drama, Frances McDormand, Joshua James Richards, Nomadland, Oscars, Road Movie
Leave a comment
Review in Brief: Promising Young Woman (2020)
With PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN writer-director Emerald Fennell has crafted one of the most challenging and keen-edged debut films in years, and it’s making just the right kinds of people mad. Cassie (Carey Mulligan) spends her evenings pretending to be blackout … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief
Tagged Bo Burnham, Carey Mulligan, Drama, Emerald Fennell, Oscars, Promising Young Woman, Thriller
Leave a comment
Review in Brief: Judas and the Black Messiah (2020)
JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH tells a heightened version of a story that everyone should know, and tells it with righteous anger. Unfortunately some elements of the film’s abundant style do admittedly get in the way, like the depiction of … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief
Tagged Daniel Kaluuya, Drama, Judas and the Black Messiah, LaKeith Stanfield, Martin Sheen, Oscars, Shaka King
Leave a comment
Review in Brief: Minari (2020)
There’s no debate, MINARI is an American film – what could be more American than a tale of a family buying a farm and dreaming of living off the land? It’s astounding that the film features two of the first … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief
Tagged Drama, Lee Isaac Chung, Minari, Oscars, Steven Yeun, Youn Yuh-jung
Leave a comment
