Historical Drama
SBIFF 2026 Review: ‘Saipan’ Deftly Delivers Big Game Division
The thrilling story of the infamous confrontation between iconic Republic of Ireland football captain Roy Keane (Éanna Hardwicke) and his national team manager Mick McCarthy (Steve Coogan) during the ...
‘The Choral’ Review: Historic Drama Turns Grief Into Unlikely Harmony
As World War I rages on, Dr. Henry Guthrie takes over a British choral society that's lost most of its men to the army. The community soon discovers that the best response to the chaos of war ...
‘On Swift Horses’ Review: Strong Cast Soars in Muddled Melodrama
Muriel and her husband, Lee, begin a new life together after he returns home from the Korean War. However, their newfound stability gets upended by the arrival of Lee's charismatic brother, a ...
‘The Brutalist’ Review: Tóth Story
Escaping postwar Europe, visionary architect László Toth arrives in America to rebuild his life, his career, and his marriage. On his own in a strange new country, László settles in Pennsylvania, wher...
‘Nickel Boys’ Review: Remember Who You Are
Elwood Curtis' college dreams are shattered when he's sentenced to Nickel Academy, a brutal reformatory in the Jim Crow South. Clinging to his optimistic worldview, Elwood strikes up a friendship with...
‘Gladiator II’ Review: Ridley’s Rome
After his home is conquered by the tyrannical emperors who now lead Rome, Lucius is forced to enter the Colosseum and must look to his past to find strength to return the glory of Rome to its pe...
‘Napoleon’ Review: The World Was Yours
An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, J...
‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Review: Scorsese’s Headrights
At the turn of the 20th century, oil brought a fortune to the Osage Nation, who became some of the richest people in the world overnight. The wealth of these Native Americans immediately attracted whi...
‘Oppenheimer’ Review: A Master-Class in Filmmaking On Every Scale
Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer is an IMAX-shot epic thriller that thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in ...