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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

Hot Docs 2025: They're Here

This documentary on UFO encounters is too scant to satisfy either newbies or true believers.

Aren's Reviews, The Festival Circuit, ReviewsAren BergstromMay 5, 2025They're Here, UFO, Daniel Claridge, Pacho Velez, Hot DocsComment

Hot Docs 2025: Shifting Baselines

Julien Elie’s documentary about a small Texan town taken over by SpaceX is visually remarkable.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Festival CircuitAren BergstromMay 5, 2025Shifting Baselines, Julien ElieComment

Review: Mickey 17 (2025)

Bong Joon-ho’s science-fiction satire features a great Robert Pattinson performance but misses the mark when it comes to its political commentary.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromApril 16, 2025Mickey 17, Bong Joon-ho, Mickey7, Edward Ashton, Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, Mark RuffaloComment

Review: French Connection II (1975)

John Frankenheimer’s French Connection II is an intriguing drama, even if it’s somewhat superfluous.

Aren's Reviews, Flash Back, ReviewsAren BergstromMarch 31, 2025French Connection II, John Frankenheimer, Alexander Jacobs, Laurie Dillon, Robert Dillon, William Friedkin, The French Connection, Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard FressonComment

Review: The Monkey (2025)

Osgood Perkins’ black comedy The Monkey runs one joke over and over into the ground.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromMarch 28, 2025The Monkey, Osgood Perkins, Stephen King, Theo James, Tatiana Maslany, Christian Convery, Colin O'Brien, Rohan Campbell, Sarah Levy, Adam Scott, Elijah WoodComment

Review: Venom: The Last Dance (2024)

The final film in the Tom Hardy Venom trilogy, The Last Dance lacks the arch tone that made the predecessors so fun.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromMarch 17, 2025Venom, Venom: The Last Dance, Kelly Marcel, Tom Hardy, Mavel, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Juno Temple, Rhys Ifans, Stephen Graham, Peggy Lu, Alanna UbachComment

Review: The French Connection (1971)

William Friedkin’s The French Connection remains one of the all-time classics of the New Hollywood era.

Aren's Reviews, Flash Back, ReviewsAren BergstromMarch 12, 2025The French Connection, William Friedkin, Ernest Tidyman, Robin Moore, Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco, Marcel BozzuffiComment