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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

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 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

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

Review: Rebel Ridge (2024)

Jeremy Saulnier's Rebel Ridge is a return to form and a tense action thriller about crooked cops.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromSeptember 12, 2024Rebel Ridge, Jeremy Saulnier, Aaron Pierre, Don Johnson, AnnaSophia Robb, David Denman, Emory Cohen, Steve Zsiss, Zsane Jhe, Dana Lee, James CromwellComment

Review: Unfrosted (2024)

Jerry Seinfeld's Pop-Tarts farce is a misfire on almost every level.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromAugust 28, 2024Jerry Seinfeld, Pop-Tarts, Unfrosted, Spike Feresten, Andy Robin, Barry Marder, Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan, Max Greenfield, Hugh Grant, Amy SchumerComment

Review: Road House (2024)

The best part of the Road House remake is Jake Gyllenhaal, who makes his bouncer-warrior another one of his dark loner characters.

Review: Maestro (2023)

Contradiction is the governing thematic and formal design for Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic.

Reviews, The Current: At HomeAnton BergstromJanuary 24, 2024Maestro, Leonard Bernstein, biopic, classical music, conductor, sexuality, marriage, Bradley Cooper, Josh Singer, Carey Mulligan, composerComment

Review: Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (2023)

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget is decent entertainment, but a significant step down from the original film.

Review: Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire (2023)

Although there are plenty of enjoyable Zack Snyder trademarks, the final result is never enough of its own thing.

Review: Leave the World Behind (2023)

The hit Netflix apocalyptic psychological thriller is a movie for our moment.

Reviews, The Current: At HomeAnton BergstromJanuary 4, 2024Leave the World Behind, Sam Esmail, Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Myha'la, Farrah Mackenzie, Charlie Evans, Kevin Bacon, thriller, apocalypse, psychological thrillerComment

Review: The Equalizer 3 (2023)

The Equalizer 3 blends together a brutal action film and a sentimental Hallmark-style drama about Italian village life.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromDecember 22, 2023The Equalizer 3, The Equalizer, Antoine Fuqua, Richard Wenk, Michael Sloan, Richard Lindheim, Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Eugenio Mastrandrea, David DenmanComment

Review: Air (2023)

Ben Affleck’s Air is an easygoing underdog sports drama without the sports.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromNovember 27, 2023Air, Nike, Air Jordan, Michael Jordan, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Jason Bateman, Marlon Wayans, Chris Messina, Chris Tucker, Viola DavisComment

Review: Unknown: Cave of Bones (2023)

Unknown: Cave of Bones, the Netflix documentary about the Rising Star cave system, is often affecting, but overreaches on some of its scientific claims.

Aren's Reviews, The Current: At Home, ReviewsAren BergstromOctober 3, 2023Unknown, Cave of Bones, Unknown: Cave of Bones, Netflix, Mark Mannucci, Rising Star cave system, Lee Burger, homo nalediComment

Review: Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023)

Shazam! Fury of the Gods is an affable sequel, but it also proves the DCEU has well and truly run out of gas.

Review: White Noise (2022)

Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of the landmark postmodern novel by Don DeLillo fails to deliver despite the enduring relevance of the novel’s subjects and themes.

Reviews, The Current: At HomeAnders BergstromFebruary 17, 2023White Noise, Noah Baumbach, Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle, drama, comedy, posthumanism, literary adaptationComment

Review: Black Adam (2022)

Dwayne Johnson’s DCEU superhero film is a pale imitation of a Zack Snyder film, and proof of why the DCEU is being rebooted.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromFebruary 7, 2023Black Adam, Jaume Collet-Serra, Adam Sztykiel, Rory Haines, Sohrab Noshirvani, DC, DCEU, Dwayne Johnson, Aldis Hodge, Noah Centineo, Sarah Shahi, Marwan Kenzari, Quintessa Swindell, Pierce BrosnanComment

Christmas: Spirited (2022)

Sean Anders’ musical riff on A Christmas Carol starring Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds is a hyperactive, amiable, and incoherent bit of Christmas content.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At Home, ChristmasAren BergstromJanuary 9, 2023Spirited, Sean Anders, John Morris, A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds, Octavia Spencer, Sunita Mani, Patrick Page, Marlow Barkley, Tracy MorganComment

Review: Athena (2022)

Romain Gavras’ Athena is an impressive formal achievement, although it never manages to resolve the tensions between its operatic storytelling and its slightly-artificial visual approach.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromNovember 28, 2022Athena, Romain Gavras, Ladj Ly, Elias Belkeddar, Dali Benssalah, Sami Slimane, Anthony Bajon, Ouassani Embarek, Alexis ManentiComment

Halloween Horror: Hellraiser (2022)

David Bruckner’s Hellraiser reboot is a flattened riff on the tale for a flattened cinematic culture.