Dog Days of Summer (2007)

A24 films form a movie fan’s ultimate Venn diagram: one circle represents masterpieces, one circle represents divisive films, and a whole lot of their movies, from Hereditary to Civil War to Eddington, fall in the space where the circles overlap. The Drama is no different. This is not a film, it’s a drop tower. A drop tower that you don’t get off of for the vast majority of its 106-minute runtime. Without relying on any action set-pieces or visual spectacle, this will make your heart race from the word “go” until you finally reach the finish line.

The Drama follows a couple as they prepare for their wedding, only for the bride-to-be to drunkenly reveal a dark secret about her past that drives a wedge between them. Revealing that dark secret here would ruin the incredible moment of realization; not revealing it would misrepresent how compelling this film actually is. This article chooses to keep a secret. This falls under the same umbrella of films as Sinners and Sorry to Bother You in that telling you what the film is about could taint the experience.