MORE FROM FORBESWhy Rachel From \u2018Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen\u2019 Looks FamiliarBy Tim Lammers<\/a><\/p>\n Rated R, The Drama also stars Alana Haim, Mamoudou Athie and Hailey Benton Gates.<\/p>\n As of Thursday midday, The Drama has earned an 83% \u201cfresh\u201d critics\u2019 score on Rotten Tomatoes\u2019<\/a> Tomatometer based on 76 reviews. RT\u2019s Critics Consensus, Audience Summary and Popcornmeter score are still pending.<\/p>\n Disclaimer: The trailer below includes cursing.<\/p>\n What Are Individual Critics Saying About Zendaya and Robert Pattinson\u2019s \u2018The Drama\u2019?<\/p>\n India Block of the London Evening Standard is among the top critics on RT<\/a> who gives The Drama<\/a> a \u201cfresh\u201d score. In her review summary on RT, Block writes of the film, \u201cIt\u2019s cringe-inducing and gross-out in places, but artfully shot, interestingly edited and set to some of the freakiest flute toots in arthouse cinema.\u201d<\/p>\n Peter Howell of The Toronto Star also deems The Drama \u201cfresh.\u201d Howell writes in his RT review summary, \u201cKristoffer Borgli\u2019s marital dramedy turns the rituals of love and commitment into a warped mirror for modern guilt, exposing how easily intimacy curdles into self-serving hypocrisy.\u201d<\/p>\n MORE FROM FORBES\u2018Frankenstein\u2019-Inspired \u2018The Bride!\u2019 Gets Streaming Release DateBy Tim Lammers<\/a><\/p>\n G. Allen Johnson of the San Francisco Chronicle is also a fan of The Drama. Johnson writes in his \u201cfresh\u201d RT review summary, \u201cIt\u2019s Zendaya\u2019s movie. Her layered performance holds back then lets go as Emma\u2019s full complexity is gradually revealed. If you can\u2019t get on board with Emma, then you\u2019re the problem \u2014 which partly is Borgli\u2019s intention.\u201d<\/p>\n Brian Truitt of USA Today gives The Drama a \u201cfresh\u201d score as well. In his RT review summary, Truitt writes that The Drama is \u201cone of the boldest, brashest movies in some time … When not giddily tearing apart the rom-com, Borgli asks really major thematic questions with his controversial subject matter.\u201d<\/p>\n Robert Daniels of RogerEbert.com is among the top critics on RT who gives The Drama a \u201crotten\u201d score, asking,\u201d What gives this glib, circuitous film the right to persecute the apathetic when it barely understands its own characters?\u201d<\/p>\n MORE FROM FORBESHow Bruce Campbell Almost Ended Up In Sam Raimi\u2019s \u2018Send Help\u2019By Tim Lammers<\/a><\/p>\n Larushka Ivan-Zadeh of Time Out also rates The Drama \u201crotten\u201d on RT, writing, \u201cIt\u2019s about cold feet and how well we know the people close to us or want to — the irony being the movie itself doesn\u2019t seem all that invested in its own characters, who rarely behave like plausible human beings.\u201d<\/p>\n David Fear of Rolling Stone isn\u2019t a fan of The Drama, either, writing in his RT review summary, \u201cThe fact that so much hinges on the poking of a wound doesn\u2019t automatically make it audacious in a way that\u2019s taboo breaking. It\u2019s the sort of too-edgy-for-the-mainstream movie that\u2019s not nearly as edgy as it thinks it is.\u201d<\/p>\n Nikki Gemmell of The Australian calls out writer-director Kristoffer Borgli in her \u201crotten\u201d review summary of the film on RT, writing, \u201cThe Drama is a film written by a man about a complicated female. As a woman, it doesn\u2019t ring true. It normalizes violent psychopathic tendencies in females \u2014 I didn\u2019t have that on my bingo card for a movie marketed as a … black comedy about weddings.\u201d<\/p>\n The Drama, starring Zendaya<\/a> and Robert Pattinson<\/a>, opens in theaters nationwide on Friday.<\/p>\n MORE FROM FORBES\u2018Super Mario Galaxy Movie\u2019 Rotten Tomatoes Reviews Are Not So SuperBy Tim Lammers<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1c720aba450fc718cb4e69df542257f9.jpeg\"\/)
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