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Review: Secret Mall Apartment (2024)

This amiable documentary about an underground art project is a subtly profound meditation on the value of art.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromFebruary 4, 2026Secret Mall Apartment, Jeremy Workman, documentaryComment

Review: Jay Kelly (2025)

Noah Baumbach has lost his satiric edge in this fluffy character piece starring George Clooney.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromJanuary 27, 2026Jay Kelly, Noah Baumbach, Emily Mortimer, George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Billy Crudup, Riley Keough, Grace Edwards, Stacy Keach, Jim Broadbent, Patrick WilsonComment

Review: Bugonia (2025)

Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia succeeds largely due to its central performances.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromDecember 31, 2025Bugonia, Yorgos Lanthimos, Will Tracy, Save the Green Planet!, Jang Joon-hwan, Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, Alicia SilverstoneComment

Review: Caught Stealing (2025)

Darren Aronofsky ultimately cannot manage the tone of this black comedy crime film.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromDecember 16, 2025Caught Stealing, Darren Aronofsky, Charlie Huston, Austin Butler, Regina King, Zoe Kravitz, Matt Smith, Liev Schreiber, Vincent D'Onofrio, Benito Martinez Ocasio, Griffin Dunne, Carol KaneComment

Review: Train Dreams (2025)

Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams evokes Terrence Malick in style and setting, but is more similar to Bentley and Greg Kwedar’s Sing Sing in terms of approach to character and conflict.

The Current: At Home, Reviews, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromDecember 11, 2025Train Dreams, Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Denis Johnson, Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, William H. Macy, Kerry CondonComment

Review: Chime (2024)

Chime is Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s fatalistic cinema in its purest form.

Aren's Reviews, The Current: At Home, ReviewsAren BergstromDecember 4, 2025Chime, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Mutsuo YoshiokaComment

Review: Lucky Star (2024)

Although it lacks some energy, Lucky Star remains a work of well-drawn, realistic indie storytelling.

Review: Cloud (2024)

The new film from the director of Cure and Pulse lays bare the predatory nature of internet capitalism.

Aren's Reviews, The Current: At Home, ReviewsAren BergstromNovember 26, 2025Cloud, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Masaki Suda, Kotone Furukawa, Daiken Okudaira, Amane Okayama, Yoshiyoshi Arakawa, Masataka KubotaComment

Review: K-Pop Demon Hunters (2025)

Surprisingly, K-Pop Demon Hunters tells a well-developed story with clearly drawn characters.

Review: Warfare (2025)

Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland’s Warfare is impressively intense, but never thematically coalesces in the moment.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromNovember 6, 2025Warfare, Ray Mendoza, Alex Garland, D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Kit Connot, Finn Bennett, Joseph Quinn, Charles MeltonComment

Halloween Horror: Bring Her Back (2025)

Danny and Michael Philippou’s follow-up to Talk to Me is a more gruelling, complete film than its predecessor.

Aren's Reviews, Halloween Horror, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromOctober 16, 2025Bring Her Back, Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou, Bill Hinzman, Billy Barret, Sora Wong, Jonah Wren Phillips, Sally HawkinsComment

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

Review: Final Destination Bloodlines (2025)

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

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: 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: 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.