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Review: A Complete Unknown (2024)

James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown captures the enigma of Dylan and proves the appeal of the musical biopic genre.

Aren's Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, ReviewsAren BergstromJanuary 9, 2025A Complete Unknown, Bob Dylan, James Mangold, Jay Cocks, Dylan Goes Electric!, Elijah Wald, Timothee Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook, Dan Fogler, Norbert Leo Butz, Scoot McNairyComment

Christmas: Carry-On (2024)

Jaume Collet-Serra’s new Netflix thriller is a riff on Die Hard 2 and a genuinely watchable action thriller in a lacklustre streaming environment.

Review: Wicked (2024)

Wicked is doomed by the decision to inflate Act 1 into an entire 160-minute film.

Review: Juror #2 (2024)

Clint Eastwood’s courtroom drama is a classical morality play in the vein of 12 Angry Men or Anatomy of a Murder.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromDecember 19, 2024Juror #2, Clint Eastwood, Juror No. 2, Jonathan Abrams, Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, J. K. Simmons, Chris Messina, Zoey Deutch, Cedric Yarbrough, Kiefer Sutherland Comments

Review: Beatles '64 (2024)

David Tedeschi’s new Beatles documentary fails to find anything new to say about the 20th century’s most popular band.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromDecember 12, 2024The Beatles, Beatles '64, David Tedeschi, documentaryComment

Review: Conclave (2024)

Edward Berger’s Conclave is a lot of fun. Just don’t confuse it for more than a potboiler.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromNovember 28, 2024Conclave, Edward Berger, Peter Straughan, Robert Harris, Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Sergio Castellitto, Isabella Rossellini, Lucian Msamati, Carlos Diehz, Brian F. O'ByrneComment

Review: Love Lies Bleeding (2024)

Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian are great in Rose Glass’s erotic neo-noir, but the grab bag of genre elements leaves something to be desired.

Aren's Reviews, The Current: At Home, ReviewsAren BergstromNovember 14, 2024Love Lies Bleeding, Rose Glass, Weronika Tofilska, Kristen Stewart, Katy O'Brian, Jena Malone, Anna Baryshnikov, Dave Franco, Ed HarrisComment

Review: The Illustrated Man (1969)

Jack Smight’s 1969 adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s short story collection is not an ideal adaptation, but does capture some of surreal power of Bradbury’s work.

Aren's Reviews, Flash Back, ReviewsAren BergstromNovember 7, 2024Jack Smight, Howard B. Kreitsek, Ray Bradbury, Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Robert DrivasComment

Halloween Horror: Longlegs (2024)

Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs is an inconsistent mishmash of The Silence of the Lambs and Cure.

Aren's Reviews, Halloween Horror, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromOctober 31, 2024Osgood Perkins, Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage, Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt, Michelle Choi-Lee, Dakota Daulby, Kiernan Shipka, Longlegs, Halloween Horror, horrorComment

Halloween Horror: The Mist (2007)

Frank Darabont’s Stephen King horror adaptation plays like a dry run for The Walking Dead.

Halloween Horror: The Platform 2 (2024)

This sequel to the surprise Netflix horror hit, The Platform, loses the elegance of its predecessor.

Halloween Horror, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At Home, ReviewsAren BergstromOctober 21, 2024The Platform, The Platform 2, Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, David Desola, Pedro Rivero, Egoitz Moreno, Milena Smit, Hovik Keuchkerian, Natalia Tena, Oscar Jaenada, Antonia San JuanComment

Halloween Horror: The Faculty

The Faculty is Invasion of the Body Snatchers for the MTV generation.

Review: The Beekeeper (2024)

David Ayers' The Beekeeper is one of the most gloriously dumb movies of recent years.

Aren's Reviews, The Current: At Home, ReviewsAren BergstromOctober 9, 2024The Beekeeper, David Ayer, Kurt Wimmer, Jason Statham, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Josh Hutcherson, Bobby Naderi, Minnie Driver, David Witts, Michael Epp, Taylor James, Jemma Redgrave, Phylicia RashadComment

TIFF24: Oh, Canada

Paul Schrader's Oh, Canada is for true Schrader heads only.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Festival CircuitAren BergstromSeptember 24, 2024Oh Canada, Paul Schrader, Foregone, Russell Banks, Richard Gere, Jacob Elordi, Uma Thurman, Victoria Hill, Michael Imperioli, Penelope Mitchell, Kristine Froseth, Zach ShafferComment

TIFF24: The Piano Lesson

Malcolm Washington's The Piano Lesson relies on the strength of its source material to compensate for some of its ambitious, if uneven, filmmaking choices.