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Review: Weapons (2025)

Zach Cregger’s ambitious new horror movie is another cinematic prank.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromSeptember 25, 2025Zach Cregger, Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Arbams, Cary Christopher, Toby Huss, Benedict Wong, Amy Madigan, WeaponsComment

Review: Suspended Time (2024)

Olivier Assayas’s Suspended Time is a rarity: a thoughtful look back at the COVID-19 pandemic.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromSeptember 17, 2025Suspended Time, Olivier Assayas, Vincent Macaigne, Micha Lescot, Nora Hamzawi, Nine d'UrsoComment

TIFF 2025: Blue Heron

Sophy Romvari’s feature debut blends autofiction and documentary to devastating effect.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Festival CircuitAren BergstromSeptember 15, 2025Sophy Romvari, Blue Heron, Eylul Guven, Iringo Reti, Adam Tompa, Edik Beddoes, Amy Zimmer, Liam Serg, Preston DrabbleComment

Review: Identity (2003)

James Mangold’s 2003 thriller is memorable for its craftsmanship and absurdity.

Aren's Reviews, Flash Back, ReviewsAren BergstromSeptember 11, 2025Identity, James Mangold, Michael Cooney, John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, Alfred Molina, Clea DuVall, Rebecca De Mornay, John Hawkes, John C. McGinley, William Lee Scott, Jake Busey, Pruitt Taylor VinceComment

Review: North West Mounted Police (1940)

Cecil B. DeMille’s Canada-set epic could have benefited from a stronger narrative focus.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, Flash BackAren BergstromSeptember 4, 2025North West Mounted Police, Cecil B. DeMille, Alan Le May, Jesse Lasky Jr., C. Gardner Sullivan, The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, R. C. Fetherstonhaugh, Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Paulette Goddard, Preston Foster, Robert Preston, Akim Tamiroff, Lon Chaney Jr.Comment

Review: The Naked Gun (2025)

A hilariously stupid pure comedy in a Hollywood severely lacking them.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromAugust 18, 2025The Naked Gun, Akiva Schaffer, Dan Gregor, Doug Mand, Police Squad, David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, Danny Huston, CCH Pounder, Kevin DurandComment

Review: Final Destination Bloodlines (2025)

The latest film in the Final Destination series is too in on the joke.

Review: Superman: The Movie (1978)

Richard Donner’s Superman: The Movie is the quintessential Superman movie, even if it’s an imperfect film.

Review: Shifty: Living in Britain at the End of the Twentieth Century (2025)

Adam Curtis crafts a tremendous, hilarious, depressing examination of Britain’s decline.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromJuly 24, 2025Adam Curtis, ShiftyComment

Review: Running Out of Time (1999)

This mid-career thriller from Johnnie To is a star showcase for Lau Ching-wan and Andy Lau.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, Overlooked and Under-AppreciatedAren BergstromJuly 21, 2025Running Out of Time, Johnnie To, Yau Nai-hoi, Laurent Courtiaud, Julien Carbon, Andy Lau, Lau Ching-wan, Yoyo Mung, Waise Lee, Benz Hui, Lam Suet, Ruby WongComment

Review: The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (2024)

This Looney Tunes movie fleetingly captures the magic of the original shorts.

Review: Trainwreck: Mayor of Mayhem (2025)

Mayor of Mayhem is an embarrassingly lazy recounting of the Rob Ford saga.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromJune 30, 2025Netflix, Trainwreck: Mayor of Mayhem, Shianne Brown, Rob Ford, TorontoComment

Review: 28 Years Later (2025)

Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s return to the world of 28 Days Later reanimates the zombie genre.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromJune 26, 202528 Years Later, 28 Days Later, Danny Boyle, Alex Garland, Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Williams, Ralph FiennesComment

Review: Drop (2025)

Christopher Landon’s Drop is entertaining, outlandish B-movie fun.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromJune 12, 2025Christopher Landon, Jillian Jacobs, Chris Roach, Meghann Fahy, Brandon Sklenar, Violett Beane, Jacob Robinson, Reed Diamond, Gabrielle Ryan, Jeffery Self, Ed Weeks, DropComment

Review: Fear Street: Prom Queen (2025)

Fear Street: Prom Queen fails to be anything more than vague nostalgia bait.

Review: Black Bag (2025)

Steven Soderbergh’s spy film plays as a blend between a whodunnit, a John le Carré thriller, and a marriage drama.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromJune 2, 2025Black Bag, Steven Soderbergh, David Koepp, Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Marisa Abela, Tom Burke, Naomie Harris, Rege-Jean Page, Pierce BrosnanComment

Review: Eephus (2024)

Carson Lund’s Eephus is an elegy for baseball and the impermanence of life.

Hot Docs 2025: Unwelcomed

Unwelcomed provides a haunting vision of the migration of Venezuelans into northern Chile on a macro and micro scale.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Festival CircuitAren BergstromMay 9, 2025Unwelcomed, Hot Docs, Chile, Amilcar Infante, Sebastian Gonzalez Mendez, immigrationComment

Hot Docs 2025: Colossal

Nayibe Tavares-Abel’s documentary uses personal family history to trace the recent political history of the Dominican Republic.

Aren's Reviews, The Festival Circuit, ReviewsAren BergstromMay 7, 2025Colossal, Hot Docs, documentary, Nayibe Tavares-AbelComment

Hot Docs 2025: Shamed

Matt Gallagher’s Shamed is an effective expose of Jason Nassr and online vigilantism.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Festival CircuitAren BergstromMay 6, 2025Shamed, Matt Gallagher, Hot DocsComment