Blog — 3 Brothers Film

Review: Ladies First (2026)

Netflix’s high concept comedy starring Sacha Baron Cohen has one decent joke that it plays to exhaustion.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromJune 10, 2026Ladies First, Thea Sharrock, Natalie Krinsky, Cinco Paul, Katie Silberman, I Am Not an Easy Man, Eleonore Pourriat, Sacha Baron Cohen, Rosamund Pike, Charles Dance, Emily Mortimer, Tom Davis, Richard E. Grant, Fiona ShawComment

Review: Days of Thunder (1990)

Tony Scott’s Days of Thunder starring Tom Cruise is an effective mainstream crowdpleaser.

Aren's Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, ReviewsAren BergstromJune 8, 2026Days of Thunder, Tony Scott, Robert Towne, Tom Cruise, Robert Duvall, Randy Quaid, Nicole Kidman, Michael Rooker, Cary Elwes, John C. Reilly, Fred Dalton Thompson, Caroline WilliamsComment

Review: RoboCop (1987)

Anders revisits Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 sci-fi action-satire and finds a new appreciation of the film.

Flash Back, ReviewsAnders BergstromJune 5, 2026RoboCop, Paul Verhoeven, science fiction action, satire, 1980s nostalgiaComment

Review: Backrooms (2026)

The YouTube phenomenon makes its way to the big screen in this “liminal space” horror film.

Movies Today, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAnders BergstromJune 4, 2026horror, liminal space, YouTube, creepypasta, Kane Parsons, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate ReinsveComment

Review: Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026)

Playing it safe, Jon Favreau’s command of action and genre conventions make The Mandalorian and Grogu a success.

Review: The Wizard of the Kremlin (2025)

Olivier Assayas has made a rare thing: a portrait of modern Russia as a complex, living thing.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromMay 22, 2026The Wizard of the Kremlin, Olivier Assayas, Emmanuel Carrere, Giuliano da Empoli, Paul Dano, Alicia Vikander, Tom Sturridge, Will Kean, Jeffrey Wright, Jude LawComment

Review: Michael (2026)

Antoine Fuqua’s Michael Jackson biopic is a cinematic fantasy, for better and for worse.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromMay 12, 2026Michael, Michael Jackson, Antoine Fuqua, John Logan, Jaafar Jackson, Nia Long, Juliano Valdi, KeiLyn Durrel Jones, Laura Harrier, Jessica Sula, Mike Myers, Miles Teller, Colman DomingoComment

Hot Docs 2026: INDIVISUM: Legacies Adrift

This personal documentary digs into the problem of legal problem of indivision on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Festival CircuitAren BergstromMay 8, 2026INDIVISUM: Legacies Adrift, Hot Docs, Hot Docs 2026, Katie Cafe-FebrissyComment

Hot Docs 2026: The Seoul Guardians

The Seoul Guardians is a gripping account of the failed coup in South Korea in December 2024.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Festival CircuitAren BergstromMay 8, 2026Hot Docs 2026, Hot Docs, The Seoul Guardians, Cho Chul Young, Kim Shin Wan, Kim Jong WooComment

Hot Docs 2026: Ghost in the Machine

This video essay seeks to paint a damning portrait of AI, but is undone by its haphazard presentation.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Festival CircuitAren BergstromMay 6, 2026Hot Docs, Hot Docs 2026, Ghost in the Machine, Valerie VeatchComment

Review: The Parallax View (1974)

As political assassinations once again become routine in America, Alan J. Pakula’s The Parallax View becomes essential viewing.

Hot Docs 2026: The Tower That Built a City

This frenetic documentary charting the construction and impact of the CN Tower is fun Canadian boosterism.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Festival CircuitAren BergstromMay 1, 2026Hot Docs 2026, Hot Docs, The Tower That Built a City, Mark MyersComment

Review: The Devil's Advocate (1997)

This 1997 supernatural legal thriller gains some interest from Al Pacino’s entertaining turn as the Devil himself, but the surrounding melodrama is lacking.

Reviews, Yesterday's CinemaAnders BergstromMay 1, 2026courtroom drama, supernatural thriller, Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron, drama-thriller, horror, SatanComment

Review: The 6th Day (2000)

The 6th Day is accidentally prescient in some matters, but is mostly an ungainly action thriller from the turn of the millennium.

Aren's Reviews, Flash Back, ReviewsAren BergstromApril 22, 2026The 6th Day, Roger Spottiswoode, Cormac Wibberley, Marianne Wibberley, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Rapaport, Tony Goldwyn, Michael Rooker, Sarah Wynter, Robert DuvallComment

Review: Super Mario Bros. (1993)

This subversive reimagining of the Super Mario Brothers is both terribly conceived and terribly executed.

Review: High Pressure (1932)

Mervyn LeRoy’s pre-Code comedy starring William Powell acts as a 1930s precursor to The Wolf of Wall Street.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, Flash BackAren BergstromApril 10, 2026High Pressure, Mervyn LeRoy, Joseph Jackson, Hot Money, Aben Kandel, William Powell, Evelyn Brent, George Sidney, John Wray, Evalyn Knapp, Guy Kibbee, Frank McHugh, Harry BeresfordComment

Review: The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026)

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is entertaining, pleasant, and completely devoid of any dramatic tension or narrative substance.

Review: Predator: Badlands (2025)

Predator: Badlands is like Robison Crusoe with killer plants, bizarre alien creatures, and severed androids.

Review: Mountainhead (2025)

An amusing and sometimes insightful comedy of manners about four tech oligarchs.

Reviews, The Current: At HomeAnton BergstromMarch 27, 2026Jesse Armstrong, Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith, Ramy Youssef, tech, technology, satire, comedy of manners, play, AI, social mediaComment

Review: The Fall Guy (2024)

David Leitch’s action comedy starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt is fun until it’s not.

Aren's Reviews, Flash Back, ReviewsAren BergstromMarch 13, 2026The Fall Guy, David Leitch, Drew Pearce, Glen A. Larson, Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Hannah Waddingham, Teresa Palmer, Stephanie Hsu, Winston DukeComment