Drama Reviews and Features | Little White Lies

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A group of people, including a basketball coach and several players, gathered in a gymnasium. The players are wearing basketball uniforms with the number 5 and 50.
Review

Finding the Way Back

by Hannah Strong

Ben Affleck exorcises some personal demons in this sometimes effective basketball drama.

2
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
Man, woman, and child eating at a table in a dimly lit room.
Review

Back Roads

by Charles Bramesco

Alex Pettyfer marks his directorial debut in inauspicious fashion with this lurid family incest thriller.

2
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
An elderly man with a long beard embracing a young woman on a foggy, rural road.
Review

A White, White Day

by Trevor Johnston

A police chief’s suspicion turns into an obsession in this chilly Icelandic drama from Hlynur Palmason.

4
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
Person wearing glasses and headphones sitting in cockpit of an aircraft, focused on the instrument panel.
Review

7500

by Charles Bramesco

Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a besieged pilot in this airborne thriller from German director Patrick Vollrath.

3
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
1
In Retrospect
Rustic food stall with awning in field, people standing outside.
Review

Citizens of the World

by David Jenkins

A light, frisky Italian comedy about three old geezers looking to leave Rome for a more fulfilling life.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
A group of people wearing backpacks and hiking gear walking through a grassy field at sunset.
Review

Da 5 Bloods

by Leila Latif

Spike Lee tackles black trauma, white saviourism and the ingloriousness of war in this searing Vietnam epic.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
Elderly man in dark suit sitting at table, looking serious and pointing.
Review

Guest of Honour

by David Jenkins

David Thewlis as a finicky health inspector is the high point of this otherwise bizarre and overwrought melodrama.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
A man with a serious expression speaking into a microphone.
Review

Capone

by Charles Bramesco

Tom Hardy goes for broke in this pedestrian twilight-years biopic of notorious mobster Al Capone.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
A person with dark hair sitting on a bed, looking pensive and introspective, with a dim light highlighting their face.
Review

Never Rarely Sometimes Always

by Hannah Strong

Eliza Hittman’s emotionally bruising, exceptionally tender abortion drama is not to be missed.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
Blonde woman in leopard print clothing dancing amongst a crowd.
Review

Ema

by Caitlin Quinlan

A dancer goes on the warpath in Pablo Larraín’s scorching survey of love and family in modern-day Chile.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect