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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: Spiderhead (2022)

As far as streaming content goes, Spiderhead isn’t bad, but it asks questions it has no real interest in answering.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromJune 28, 2022Spiderhead, Netflix, Joseph Kosinski, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, George Saunders, Escape From Spiderhead, Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller, Jurnee Smollett, Mark Verlaine, Tess Haubrich, Angie MillikanComment

Halloween Horror: The Old Ways (2020)

Depending on your affection for and familiarity with exorcism films, Christopher Alender’s The Old Ways may seem admirably novel or hopelessly rote.

Aren's Reviews, Halloween Horror, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromOctober 18, 2021The Old Ways, Halloween Horror, Netflix, Christopher Alender, Marcos Gabriel, Brigitte Kali Canales, Andrea Cortés, Julia Vera, Sal Lopez, AJ BowenComment

Review: Oxygen (2021)

Alexandre Aja’s confined-space thriller mines plenty of claustrophobic tension, but ultimately doesn’t trust the strength of its limited premise to hold the viewer’s interest.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromJune 30, 2021Oxygen, Netflix, Alexandre Aja, Christie LeBlanc, Mélanie Laurent, Mathieu Amalric, Malik ZidiComment

Review: The Woman in the Window (2021)

Joe Wright’s adaptation of the popular bestseller is baffling, cynical trash that wastes a good cast and crew.

Review: The Dig (2021)

Simon Stone’s period drama is handsomely-shot and intriguing when it digs into history, but gets sidetracked by unnecessary dramatic complications.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromFebruary 5, 2021The Dig, Netflix, Simon Stone, Moira Buffini, John Preston, Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James, Johnny Flynn, Ben Chaplin, Ken Stott, Archie Barnes, Monica DolanComment

Review: The Social Dilemma (2020)

The Social Dilemma is hardly nuanced and its narrative dramatizations are lame, but it makes a compelling argument that social media is harming our culture.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromSeptember 24, 2020The Social Dilemma, Fyre, The Great Hack, Jeff Orlowski, Davis Coombe, Vickie Curtis, Skyler Gisondo, Kara Hayward, Vincent Kartheiser, NetflixComment

Review: Extraction (2020)

Extraction is just as humourless and imperialistic as most modern American action movies, but at least it has good action.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromJuly 31, 2020Sam Hargrave, Joe Russo, Anthony Russo, Ande Parks, Fernando Leon Gonzalez, Chris Hemsworth, Rudhraksh Jaiswal, Randeep Hooda, Golshifteh Farahani, Pankaj Tripathi, David Harbour, Extraction, NetflixComment

Table Talk: The Last Dance (2020)

Anders and Aren discuss the recent ESPN/Netflix doc on Michael Jordan and the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls, The Last Dance, touching on celebrity culture, documentary narratives, and shared pandemic viewing.

RoundtablesAnders BergstromMay 21, 2020documentary, basketball, Michael Jordan, ESPN, Netflix, celebrity culture, sportsComment

Review: American Factory (2019)

A remarkable documentary that gets at the inherent tensions of a globalized economy.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromAugust 30, 2019Netflix, American Factory, Julie Reichert, Steven Bognar, Barack Obama, FuyaoComment

Review: Fyre (2019)

Compelling documentation that indulges our schadenfreude, but never becomes insightful commentary.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromFebruary 12, 2019Fyre, Fyre Festival, Netflix, Chris SmithComment

Review: Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)

Don’t let the satire misguide you; this is a classical horror film through and through.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromFebruary 7, 2019Velvet Buzzsaw, Dan Gilroy, Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Toni Collette, Zawe Ashton, Tom Sturridge, Natalia Dyer, Daveed Diggs, Billy Magnussen, John Malkovich, NetflixComment

Review: Roma (2018)

Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma is a grand and sensitive story that showcases the director’s formal prowess while looking back to the traditions of neorealist cinema.

Reviews, The Current: At HomeAnders BergstromJanuary 11, 2019Roma, Alfonso Cuaron, Mexico, neorealism, black and white, NetflixComment

Ozark: Netflix's New Flagship Crime Drama-Thriller?

Netflix’s dramatic crime thriller starring Jason Bateman takes the reins from the service’s previous hits, Bloodline and Narcos.

Ozark is Compelling Second-Tier TV

Neither as slick and enthralling as Narcos, nor as well-shot or well-acted as Bloodline, Ozark is still surprisingly capable and sometimes excellent. This is solid second-tier TV.