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Review: Megalopolis (2024)

Francis Ford Coppola's strange political fable is an absurd, admirable moonshot of a film.

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: Marriage Story (2019)

Marriage Story is the gentlest film Noah Baumbach has made.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromJanuary 24, 2020Marriage Story, Noah Baumbach, Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Laura Dern, Alan Alda, Ray Liotta, Azhy Robertson, Julie Hagerty, Merritt Wever, Mark O'BrienComment

Roundtable: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) Part 2

In Part 2 the Brothers discuss The Rise of Skywalker’s links to the past, its world building, and how it concludes the Disney Trilogy.

Roundtables, Star WarsAnders BergstromDecember 31, 2019Star Wars, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Roundtable, J.J. Abrams, Disney, Oscar Isaac, Rian Johnson, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, John Boyega, Ian McDiarmid, George LucasComment

Roundtable: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) Part 1

The Brothers offer first impressions on The Rise of Skywalker and discuss its furious pace, Expanded Universe vibe, and controversial narrative twists.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

Rian Johnson’s idiosyncratic middle chapter subverts our narrative expectations in order to explore the core of what he thinks Star Wars is all about.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

The Force Awakens manages to deliver a great deal of the thrills and emotional resonances of Star Wars, but mining the past to build the future always comes with a cost.

Predicting the 2019 Oscars

Need help with your Oscar pool? Look no further.

FeaturesAren BergstromFebruary 22, 2019Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Favourite, Green Book, Roma, A Star Is Born, Vice, Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Willem Dafoe, Rami Malek, Viggo Mortensen, At Eternity's Gate, Yalitizia Aparicio, Glenn Close, The Wife, Olivia Colman, Lady Gaga, Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Mahershala Ali, Adam Driver, Sam Elliott, Richard E. Grant, Sam Rockwell, Amy Adams, Marina de Tavira, Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk, Rachel Weisz, Emma Stone, Alfonso Cuaron, Spike Lee, Yorgos Lanthimos, Adam McKay, Pawel Pawlikowski, Cold War, First Reformed, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Never Look Away, Mary Poppins Returns, Mary Queen of Scots, First Man, A Quiet Place, Avengers: Infinity War, Christopher Robin, Ready Player One, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Border, RBG, Isle of Dogs, Hale County, Hale County This Morning This Evening, Free Solo, Minding the Gap, Of Fathers and Sons, Capernaum, Shoplifters, Incredibles 2, Mirai, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-VerseComment

Review: BlacKkKlansman (2018)

Spike Lee’s newest joint isn’t just a great entertainment, but a self-aware exploration of double consciousness and white supremacy in America. One of the year’s best films

The Current: In Theatres, ReviewsAnders BergstromOctober 4, 2018BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee, Adam Driver, John David Washington, Laura Harrier, Topher Grace, African American cinema, Birth of a Nation, white supremacy, Harry Belafonte, police procedural, crime drama, AmericaComment

Roundtable: Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) - Episode III

The Brothers close out their discussion of The Last Jedi, focusing on the film's politics, visual invention, continuity with The Force Awakens and the Prequel Trilogy.

Roundtable: Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) - Episode II

The Brothers continue their discussion of The Last Jedi, focusing on its premise, what it does with the Force, the new characters, and the big death.

Roundtable: Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) - Episode I

The Brothers begin their discussion of the divisive new film in the Star Wars series, The Last Jedi, focusing on shattered expectations, connections to the Original and Prequel Trilogies, and the film's controversial choices.