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Drama films

April 2025

  • As if he is perplexed by the script … Steve Coogan and penguin in The Penguin Lessons.

    The Penguin Lessons review – Steve Coogan seabird comedy drama tries to sell feelgood mood

  • Eclipse, Tom Conti & Gay Hamilton film still

    Eclipse review – Tom Conti stars in intriguing but elusive 70s tale of a mysterious death

  • Ralph Fiennes (Odysseus) and Juliette Binoche (Penelope) in The Return.

    The Return review – Ralph Fiennes’s Homeric hero finds his way home to outstanding Juliette Binoche

  • Ray Mendoza photographed by Antonio Olmos for the Observer New Review, April 2025.

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Iraq veteran and film-maker Ray Mendoza: ‘Writing Warfare with Alex Garland was like going to a therapist’

  • Holy Cow review – unlikely French teen cheesemaker drama with a big heart

  • Marty at 70: the underdog best-picture winner remains hard to resist

  • The Return review – Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes bring fierce class to elemental Odyssey adaptation

  • Holy Cow review – warmhearted story of smalltown teen turned competition cheesemaker

  • Dreamin’ Wild review – Walton Goggins and Casey Affleck are rediscovered 70s rockers in late-life fame drama

  • Last Swim review – rising star Deba Hekmat is magnetic in exam results day drama

  • Sebastian review – tender, thoughtful sexual odyssey

  • Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy and the best older women age-gap movies

  • Sebastian review – journalist turned sex-worker aims to turn side-hustle into art

  • The full comté: quest to make a semi-hard cheese is French cinema’s breakout hit of the year

  • The Most Precious of Cargoes review – postmodern Holocaust fairytale is dreamy curiosity

  • Lyndsey Marshal and Aston McAuley in Restless.

    Restless review – relatable real-life horror in nightmare neighbour thriller

  • Dearbhla Molloy, Gaetan Garcia, Fionnula Flanagan, Stella McCusker and Paddy Glynn in Four Mothers.

    Four Mothers review – remake of Mid-August Lunch moves to Dublin and brings out queer subtext

  • Michel Hazanavicius.

    ‘Drawings do not lie’: film-maker Michel Hazanavicius on his animated feature about the Holocaust

    The Oscar‑winning director of The Artist spent five years creating The Most Precious of Cargoes. He talks about why he would never have made it as a live action movie
  • La black and white photograph of four chefs in a kitchen Press publicity film still

    La Cocina review – Rooney Mara stars in overstuffed New York kitchen drama

    The frenetic action is beautifully choreographed, but Alonso Ruizpalacios’s take on Arnold Wesker’s 1957 play The Kitchen feels stagey
  • Illustration by Lynsey Irvine/Observer Design of Donald Trump with film reels for hair and eyes.

    Visions of America: 25 films to help understand the US today

    From The Apprentice to 13th, our critic selects titles that shed light on the US under Trump
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