The Drama

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A happily engaged couple is put to the test when an unexpected turn sends their wedding week off the rails.

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Critics Consensus

Flirting with complex themes, The Drama walks a tonal tightrope with impressive poise thanks to career-highlight performances by Robert Pattinson and Zendaya.

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Sara Michelle Fetters

MovieFreak.com

1d

1.5/4

While there’s plenty of food for thought, by the time this cinematic meal concluded, I still felt famished. Even worse, I was angry at Borgli for cooking up such a frustratingly unsatisfying banquet in the first place.

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Kristy Puchko

Mashable

1d

But much like Dream Scenario, his actors give more than his undercooked script deserves.

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Peter Travers

The Travers Take

2d

2.5/4

Zendaya and Robert Pattinson bring a bracing charge to turning a romcom about wedding jitters into a deep-dish think piece about the limits of condoning violence, real or imagined. The ending doesn’t work, but oh the drama!

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Harris Dang

Impulse Gamer

1h

4.5/5

The Drama is an insightful, darkly funny, and emotionally stirring romantic-comedy. It serves as an instant conversation starter that will either engage or enrage in equal measure.

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Breeze Riley

Multiverse of Color

8h

The most surprising and satisfying thing about The Drama is that, after all it puts you through, you end the film where you started – with a love story.

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Scott Mendelson

The Outside Scoop (Substack)

9h

8/10

Kristoffer Borgli delivers a distinctly modern rom-com, a thrillingly topical and of-the-moment macabre melodrama that earns its potentially challenging premise.

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Martin

4h

Intriguing. Something to think about. I appreciate Robert Pattinson and Zendaya even agreeing to do a movie that has a strong, often unaddressed message in it. Don't want to spoil it, but I found the moment when Charlie (Pattinson's character) essentially says that there are so many people walking down the street whose stories you don't know, who could have, in their hearts, done something as bad as the offense that his friends are hung up by So while not being permissive in an active sense of wrong when he see it occurring, let us be a little more loving and merciful, especially as I'm writing this on Easter Sunday. As Father Zossima in The Brothers Karamazov says, "Each of us is guilty before everyone and for everyone." God be with you!

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Tim H

4h

I havent walked out of a movie in 50 years, but it had to be done! Possibly the oddest film ever made - and not in a fun way! Just reallyCRAPPY.

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Debbie

4h

It was slow moving and I felt like it could have been more interesting.

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Jessie

5h

The element of surprise!!! Love it

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Guilherme R

5h

Your cortisol will spike. Like the name suggests, the film is chock full o drama.

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Stephen K

5h

Thought provoking and tense. Could’ve gone a little further but definitely a movie worth seeing and discussing afterward.

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Synopsis

A happily engaged couple is put to the test when an unexpected turn sends their wedding week off the rails.

Director: Kristoffer Borgli
Producer: Lars Knudsen, Ari Aster, Tyler Campellone
Screenwriter: Kristoffer Borgli
Distributor: A24
Production Co: Square Peg
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 3, 2026, Wide
Runtime: 1h 46m
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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