Blog — 3 Brothers Film

Review: Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022)

This naked attempt at content (re)generation is packaged alongside some arch yet soft satire and meta-commentary.

Reviews, The Current: At HomeAnton BergstromJune 10, 2022nostalgia, 1990s, meta, satire, Disney Animation, detective story Comment

Review: Windfall (2022)

Windfall is a minimalist thriller whose modest dramatic tension is thrown off balance by its miscasting.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromApril 27, 2022Windfall, Charlie McDowell, Justin Lader, Andrew Kevin Walker, Jason Segel, Lily Collins, Jesse PlemonsComment

Review: The House (2022)

Netflix’s stop-motion anthology film is often chilling, occasionally amusing, and visually intricate.

Review: Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood (2022)

Richard Linklater’s Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood offers a warm hug of 1960s space age nostalgia.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromApril 11, 2022Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood, Richard Linklater, Milo Coy, Jack Black, Glen Powell, Zachary Levi, Josh Wiggins, Lee Eddy, Bill Wise, Natalie L’Amoreaux, Jessica Brynn Cohen, Sam Chipman, Danielle GuilbotComment

Review: Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)

The new Texas Chainsaw Massacre requel is stylish and short, but it has a dearth of compelling characters and story at its centre.

Review: Kimi (2022)

Steven Soderbergh’s new techno-thriller set during the pandemic is timely and stylish, but narratively predictable.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromMarch 2, 2022Kimi, Steven Soderbergh, David Koepp, Zoë Kravitz, Betsy Brandley, Rita Wilson, India de Beaufort, Emily Kuroda, Byron Bowers, Alex Dobrenko, Jaime Camil, Devin Ratray, Andy DalyComment

Review: Riders of Justice (2020)

Anders Thomas Jensen’s action dramedy starring Mads Mikkelsen handles character drama and emotional growth in surprising and moving ways.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromJanuary 13, 2022Riders of Justice, Anders Thomas Jensen, Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Andrea Heick Gadeberg, Lars Brygmann, Nicolas Bro, Gustav Lindh, Roland Moller, Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt, Anne Birgitte LindComment

Review: Don't Look Up (2021)

The problem with Adam McKay’s political satire isn’t that it’s not satire, but that it’s toothless satire.

Christmas: Home Sweet Home Alone (2021)

Home Sweet Home Alone is bad in ways that are revealing of the differences between 1990s family entertainment and that of the 2020s.

Christmas, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAnton BergstromDecember 23, 2021Home Alone, home invasion, family comedy, Dan Mazer, Ellie Kemper, Rob Delaney, Archie Yates, Christmas movies, Home Sweet Home Alone, slapstick, diegetic reboot, Christmas VacationComment

Christmas: 8-Bit Christmas (2021)

Michael Dowse’s Christmas comedy about the quest for an NES plays like A Christmas Story set in the 1980s.

Review: Untold: Crime & Penalties (2021)

The Way Brothers’ raucous film about the Danbury Trashers plays like a sequel to their previous sports documentary, The Battered Bastards of Baseball.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromNovember 18, 2021Untold, Crime & Penalties, Maclain Way, Chapman Way, documentaryComment

Review: A Glitch in the Matrix (2021)

Rodney Ascher’s film on the simulation hypothesis plays more like a religious testament than a documentary primer.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromNovember 8, 2021A Glitch in the Matrix, Rodney Ascher, simulation hypothesis, Philip K. DickComment

Halloween Horror: The Old Ways (2020)

Depending on your affection for and familiarity with exorcism films, Christopher Alender’s The Old Ways may seem admirably novel or hopelessly rote.

Aren's Reviews, Halloween Horror, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromOctober 18, 2021The Old Ways, Halloween Horror, Netflix, Christopher Alender, Marcos Gabriel, Brigitte Kali Canales, Andrea Cortés, Julia Vera, Sal Lopez, AJ BowenComment

Zack Snyder: Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)

Zack Snyder’s Justice League is the best superhero team epic—and the last one we need, at least for a good while.

Zack Snyder, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAnton BergstromSeptember 3, 2021Zack Snyder, Zack Snyder Retrospective, superheroes, superhero team epic, Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Amy Adams, Ezra Miller, Ray Fisher, Ciaran Hinds, Jason Momoa, Chris TerrioComment

Review: Fear Street Part Three: 1666 (2021)

The conclusion of Leigh Janiak’s Fear Street trilogy comes undone due to its narrative structure.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromJuly 30, 2021Fear Street, Fear Street Part Three: 1666, Leigh Janiak, Phil Graziadei, Kate Trefry, R. L. Stine, Kiana Madeira, Ashley Zukerman, Gillian Jacobs, Olivia Scott Welch, Benjamin Flores Jr., Darrell Britt-GibsonComment

Review: Fear Street Part Two: 1978 (2021)

Fear Street Part Two: 1978 is the best film in the trilogy due to its well constructed relationships and emotional storytelling.

Review: Fear Street Part One: 1994 (2021)

Fear Street Part One: 1994 plays like Stranger Things, but for teen fans of horror movies.

Review: No Sudden Move (2021)

In its best moments, No Sudden Move recalls the easygoing crime plotting of Elmore Leonard.

Review: Oxygen (2021)

Alexandre Aja’s confined-space thriller mines plenty of claustrophobic tension, but ultimately doesn’t trust the strength of its limited premise to hold the viewer’s interest.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromJune 30, 2021Oxygen, Netflix, Alexandre Aja, Christie LeBlanc, Mélanie Laurent, Mathieu Amalric, Malik ZidiComment

Review: Unhinged (2020)

Unhinged is a trashy exploitation flick that uses a bloated and creepy Russell Crowe to fuel its blunt-force thrills.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromJune 9, 2021Unhinged, Derrick Borte, Carl Ellsworth, Russell Crowe, Caren Pistorius, Gabriel Bateman, Jimmi Simpson, Austin P. McKenzieComment