Too much ‘Drama’

Published April 10, 2026 5:15am ET



Few movies could more perfectly embody our confused, disordered, and finally inconclusive times than The Drama. Pitched to audiences, in trailers and other publicity, as a darkly comic nightmare vision of matrimony — say, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for Generation Z — the movie is actually far more sinister than that. Zendaya stars as bride-to-be Emma, a seemingly perfect ingenue who, among drinks and feckless game-playing, confesses to her betrothed, Charlie (Robert Pattinson), that she once hatched plans for, of all things, a school shooting. This sends the couple’s marital plans into a state of mayhem, the “drama” of the title.

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