Blog — 3 Brothers Film

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: It Was Just an Accident (2025)

Jafar Panahi’s brilliant thriller is a personal, seething indictment of the Iranian regime.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromDecember 29, 2025It Was Just an Accident, Jafar Panahi, Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi, Hadis Pakbaten, Majid Panahi, Mohamad Ali Elyasmehr, Delnaz Najafi, Afssaneh Najmabadi, Georges HashemzadehComment

Christmas: The Holly and the Ivy (1952)

George More O’Farrell’s The Holly and the Ivy is a perceptive Christmas drama that deserves a place in the Christmas rotation.

Aren's Reviews, Christmas, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, ReviewsAren BergstromDecember 24, 2025George More O'Ferrall, Wynyard Browne, Anatole de Grunwald, Ralph Richardson, Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton, Denholm Elliott, John Gregson, Hugh Williams, Margaret Halstan, Maureen Delany, The Holly and the IvyComment

Review: Wicked: For Good (2025)

Like its predecessor, Wicked: For Good is half a movie stretched to feature length.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromDecember 23, 2025John M. Chu, Winnie Holzman, Dana Fox, Stephen Schwartz, Gregory Maguire, Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff GoldblumComment

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: Good Boy (2025)

Ben Leonberg’s Good Boy succeeds entirely due to its novel concept and the very good dog at its centre.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromDecember 12, 2025Ben Leonberg, Alex Cannon, Indy, Shane Jensen, Arielle Friedman, Larry Fessenden, Good BoyComment

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: Nouvelle Vague (2025)

In charting the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, Richard Linklater has crafted another easygoing hangout picture.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromDecember 8, 2025Nouvelle Vague, Richard Linklater, Holly Gent, Vincent Palmo, Michele Halberstadt, Laetitia Masson, Guillame Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, Aubry Dullin, Jean-Luc Godard, French New WaveComment

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: 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: One Battle After Another (2025)

Paul Thomas Anderson has produced a rousing, riveting genre picture with One Battle After Another.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromNovember 17, 2025Paul Thomas Anderson, Vineland, Thomas Pynchon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, Chase InfinitiComment

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: Pulse (2001)

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 2001 J-horror film predicted the new millennium in terrifying ways.

Aren's Reviews, Halloween Horror, Reviews, Flash BackAren BergstromOctober 31, 2025Pulse, Halloween Horror, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Kumiko Aso, Haruhiko Kato, Koyuki, Kurume Arisaka, Masatoshi MatsuoComment

Halloween Horror: The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)

The Poughkeepsie Tapes is redundant in a media culture saturated with serial killer stories.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, Flash Back, Halloween HorrorAren BergstromOctober 23, 2025The Poughkeepsie Tapes, John Erick Dowdle, Drew Dowdle, Stacy Chobsky, Ben Messmer, Ivan Brogger, Lou George, Michael LawsonComment

Halloween Horror: Ghosts of Mars (2001)

Ghosts of Mars is minor Carpenter, but still an enjoyable riff on Assault on Precinct 13.

Aren's Reviews, Halloween Horror, Reviews, Flash BackAren BergstromOctober 20, 2025Ghosts of Mars, John Carpenter, Larry Sulkis, Ice Cube, Natasha Henstridge, Jason Statham, Pam Grier, Clea DuVall, Joanna CassidyComment

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

TIFF 2025: Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband)

Zacharias Kunuk’s latest Arctic-set adventure film embraces the fantastical elements of myth.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Festival CircuitAren BergstromSeptember 26, 2025TIFF, TIFF 2025, Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband), Zacharias Kunuk, Sam Cohn-Cousineau, Haiden Anguitmarik, Theresia Kappianaq, Leah Panimera, Emma Quassa, Mark Taqqaugaq Comment

Review: Weapons (2025)

Zach Cregger’s ambitious new horror movie is another cinematic prank.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromSeptember 25, 2025Zach Cregger, Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Arbams, Cary Christopher, Toby Huss, Benedict Wong, Amy Madigan, WeaponsComment

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

TIFF 2025: Blue Heron

Sophy Romvari’s feature debut blends autofiction and documentary to devastating effect.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Festival CircuitAren BergstromSeptember 15, 2025Sophy Romvari, Blue Heron, Eylul Guven, Iringo Reti, Adam Tompa, Edik Beddoes, Amy Zimmer, Liam Serg, Preston DrabbleComment