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Review: The End of Oak Street (2026)

David Robert Mitchell’s creature feature is a throwback to PG-13 1980s fare like Gremlins.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromAugust 20, 2026The End of Oak Street, David Robert Mitchell, Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella, Christian ConveryComment

Review: The Samurai and the Prisoner (2026)

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s The Samurai and the Prisoner is an intelligent mashup of the period drama and the whodunnit.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromAugust 18, 2026The Samurai and the Prisoner, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Honobu Yonezawa, Masahiro Motoki, Masaki Suda, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Munetaka AokiComment

How Spider-Man: Brand New Day's (2026) Gen-Z Peter Parker Explains the Film's Popularity

The new Spider-Man movie succeeds off how its portrait of Spider-Man shares the anxieties of its audience.

Review: Young Mothers (2025)

The latest from the Dardenne Brothers is another quietly devastating work of social realism.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromAugust 7, 2026Young Mothers, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Dardenne Brothers, Lucie Laurelle, Babette Verbeek, Elsa Houben, Janaina Halloy Fokan, Samia Hilmi, Jef Jacobs, Gunter Duret, Christelle Cornil, India HairComment

Review: The Drama (2026)

Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama is an amusing if slight provocation.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromJuly 30, 2026The Drama, Kristoffer Borgli, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Alana Haim, Mamoudou Athie, Hailey Benton Gates, Sydney Lemmon, Hannah GrossComment

The Guilt of War Fuels Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey (2026)

Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s epic acts as a anti-war companion piece to Oppenheimer.

Review: Violent Saturday (1955)

Richard Fleischer’s 1955 crime picture demonstrates how old B-movies are full of surprises.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, Overlooked and Under-AppreciatedAren BergstromJuly 10, 2026Richard Fleischer, Sydney Boehm, William L. Heath, Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Stephen McNally, Virginia Leith, Tommy Noonan, Lee Marvin, J. Carrol Naish, Sylvia Sidney, Ernest BorgnineComment

Review: Exit 8 (2025)

Genki Kawamura’s video game adaptation Exit 8 is an effective puzzle thriller.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromJune 24, 2026Genki Kawamura, Kentaro Hirase, The Exit 8, Exit 8, Kotake Create, Kazunari Ninomiya, Yamato Kochi, Naru Asanuma, Kotone Hanase, Nana KomatsuComment

Why Obsession (2025) Is Not Reinventing Horror

Curry Barker’s smash hit is an effective Gen Z thriller, but it’s not revolutionary in terms of form or content.

Aren's Reviews, Essays, Movies TodayAren BergstromJune 17, 2026Curry Barker, Michael Johnson, Inde Navarrette, Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless, Andy Richter, Obsession Comments

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: 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

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 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: 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.