Blog — 3 Brothers Film

Halloween Horror: Area 51 (2015)

Slow-burn found footage horror with no payoff.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At Home, Halloween Horror IIIAren BergstromOctober 1, 2015aliens, Area 51, Ben Rovner, Darrin Bragg, found-footage, Halloween Horror, horror, Jelena Nik, Oren Peli, Paranormal Activity-, Reid WarnerComment

TIFF15: Office

A musical unlike anything you've seen before.

TIFF15: High-Rise

High-Rise could be a future cult classic, but it's not entirely clear what Wheatley is up to.

TIFF15: Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous

Lovely imagery, but this pseudo-documentary is saying nothing significant.

Reviews, The Festival Circuit, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromSeptember 16, 2015Christopher Doyle, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Trilogy, Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschool Preoccupied Preposterous, TIFF, TIFF15, Toronto International Film FestivalComment

TIFF15: Son of Saul

A landmark film that resolves the possible issues of the Holocaust subgenre.

Reviews, The Festival Circuit, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromSeptember 11, 2015Cannes, Clara Royer, Géza Röhrig, Holocaust, Hungary, László Nemes, Son of Saul, TIFF, TIFF15, Toronto International Film FestivalComment

Review: Mistress America (2015)

Baumbach's best film by a mile.

Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromAugust 25, 2015Cindy Cheung, comedy, Dean Wareheim, Greta Gerwig, Heather Lind, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Lola Kirke, Matthew Shear, Michael Chernus, Mistress America, New York, Noah Baumbach, screwball comedyComment

Review: Hitman: Agent 47 (2015)

Even gamers and action junkies would be better served popping in a Blu-ray of John Wick and skipping Hitman: Agent 47.

Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromAugust 21, 2015Aleksander Bach, Michael Finch, Skip Woods, Hitman: Agent 47, Rupert Friend, Hannah Ware, Zachary Quinto, Ciaran Hinds, Thomas Kretschmann, Angelababy, HitmanComment

Review: Fantastic Four (2015)

Possibly the worst superhero film ever made.

Review: Ant-Man (2015)

Fun, but blandly on-brand.

James Bond 007: Casino Royale (Climax!, 1954)

A dud that offers an interesting look at an alternate reality.

Review: Slow West (2015)

An ode to the violence of naiveté.

Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromJuly 15, 2015Ben Mendelsohn, Caren Pistorius, drama, John Maclean, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Michael Fassbender, New Zealand, Rory McCann, Slow West, Sundance Film Festival, western Comment

Review: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)

Fatally attached to its protagonist's sour perspective.

Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromJuly 9, 2015Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, comedy, Connie Britton, drama, Grand Jury Prize, Jesse Andrews, Jon Bernthal, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Molly Shannon, Nick Offerman, Olivia Cooke, Ronald Cyler II, Sundance Film Festival, Thomas MannComment

James Bond 007: Octopussy (1983)

Despite a few dreadful missteps, still a rollicking adventure.

Review: When Marnie Was There (2014)

A profound, melancholy depiction of adolescent self-loathing.

James Bond 007: Moonraker (1979)

This maligned Roger Moore Bond film is equal parts silly and exciting.

Review: Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)

An intimate and passionate romance, with fascinating editing and camerawork.

Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromJune 16, 2015Carey Mulligan, classical novel, Dan Nicholls, drama, Far from the Madding Crowd, Juno Temple, literary adaptation, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen, romance, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Vinterberg, Tom SturridgeComment

James Bond 007: Live and Let Die (1973)

Roger Moore's successful debut as James Bond 007.

Review: '71 (2014)

Tense, political filmmaking that justifiably employs cinéma vérité.

Review: It Follows (2015)

The best horror film of the decade.

James Bond 007: Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

James Bond's miscalculated introduction to the 1970s.