New Delhi, April 4 -- Long before The Drama unveils its central conflict, the filmmaking clues us in on where we're headed. Kristoffer Borgli's film opens with a Hitchcockian closeup of Zendaya's ear. The camera stalks and skulks. The ambient sound fades in and out. Robert Pattinson spies, stammers, lies. It's a meet-cute, but the tone is just shy of psychological horror.

With days to go for their wedding, Charlie (Pattinson) and Emma take their friends Mike (Mamoudou Athie) and Rachel (Alana Haim) to dinner. Several drinks in, they stumble into a truth game: each person will tell the group the worst thing they've ever done. Charlie's and Mike's confessions are fairly innocuous; Rachel's is more shocking (locking a developmentally challe...