Drama Reviews and Features | Little White Lies

Genre Drama

Two people with long dark hair, faces partially obscured, in front of blurred lights.
Review

Make Up

by Anton Bitel

A Cornish caravan park provides the backdrop to a young woman’s sexual (re)awakening in Claire Oakley’s impressive debut.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
Close-up of two people sleeping on a couch, with one person's head resting on the other's shoulder.
Review

Again Once Again

by Lillian Crawford

Argentine actor and author Romina Paula turns director for this sublime mediation on middle age womanhood.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
A woman working on a complicated robotic device, surrounded by various electronic components and wires.
Review

Proxima

by Katie Goh

Director Alice Winocour and star Eva Green deliver a moving addition to the parent-in-space genre.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
A smiling woman in a brown jumper lying in a grassy field with a coastal town in the background.
Review

Summerland

by Ariel Klinghoffer

Gemma Arterton plays a reclusive writer who rediscovers her romantic side in Jessica Swale’s tender wartime drama.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
Two young people, a man with short hair and a woman with long, curly red hair, smiling and looking at each other on a city street.
Review

How to Build a Girl

by Katie Goh

Beanie Feldstein brings bags of charm to this deft adaptation of Caitlin Moran’s coming-of-age novel.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
Person sitting on wall with dog, overlooking Rio de Janeiro cityscape with Sugarloaf Mountain in the background.
Review

The Traitor

by David Jenkins

A key episode in Mafia history is documented in this engrossing, patient and unglamorous crime saga.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
Two people relaxing in red beach chairs in a lush, green garden setting.
Review

Saint Frances

by Liz Seabrook

Kelly O’Sullivan writes and stars in this sensitive and timely survey of contemporary womanhood.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
Serious Black woman in formal outfit gazing intently.
Review

Clemency

by Rógan Graham

An astonishing, intense performance from Alfre Woodard carries this sombre, powerful death row drama.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
Group of adults in formal attire standing in an office setting.
Review

Bad Education

by Hannah Strong

Hugh Jackman plays a tricksy teacher in director Cory Finley’s pitch-black classroom comedy.

4
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
A young man embracing a young woman by a window, with plants in the background.
Review

Litigante

by David Jenkins

A moving account of a mother trying desperately to balance a scandal at work and a health drama at home.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect