Blog — 3 Brothers Film

Review: It Comes at Night (2017)

It Comes at Night is often beautiful and atmospheric and interesting, but it is not scary and it is not exciting.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromMarch 29, 2018Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbott, Carmen Ejogo, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Riley Keough, Griffin Robert Faulkner, It Comes at Night, Trey Edward ShultsComment

David Cronenberg: Secret Weapons (Programme X, 1972)

Secret Weapons is a failed experiment, but like most failed experiments, the recipe for future success is present in its dysfunction.

Review: Grimsby (2016)

Disgusting, ungainly, and offensive to every shred of decency a person may have. But also extremely funny.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromMarch 23, 2018Grimsby, Sacha Baron Cohen, Mark Strong, Rebel Wilson, Penélope Cruz, Isla Fisher, Gabourey Sidibe, Louis Leterrier, Phil Johnston, Peter BaynhamComment

Review: Annihilation (2018)

Ex Machina was a promising debut and a superior work of science-fiction, but Annihilation is on a whole other level.

Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromMarch 16, 2018Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny, Benedict Wong, Oscar Isaac, Alex Garland, Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation, Ex MachinaComment

Review: Mary and the Witch's Flower (2017)

If you were charmed by the adventures of Kiki and Chihiro and Mei and Satsuki in the films of Studio Ghibli, the adventure of Mary and the cat Tib will delight you.

Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromMarch 14, 2018Ruby Barnhill, Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Kate Winslet, Jim Broadbent, Ewen Bremner, Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Riko Sakaguchi, Mary and the Witch's Flower, Studio Ponoc, Studio GhibliComment

David Cronenberg: Crimes of the Future (1970)

Crimes of the Future is a clear progression of the experimental filmmaking of Stereo and a stepping-stone towards the sexual body horror of Shivers.

David Cronenberg, Flash Back, Reviews, Aren's Reviews, Most PopularAren BergstromMarch 9, 2018Ron Mlodzik, Jon Lidolt, Tania Zolty, Jack Messinger, Paul Mulholland, William Haslam, William Poolman, David Cronenberg, Crimes of the FutureComment

Review: Faces Places (2017)

Faces Places is a moving film and worth celebrating, if only for the fact that at almost-90, Agnès Varda hasn't slowed down.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromMarch 7, 2018Agnès Varda, JR, Faces PlacesComment

Review: Black Panther (2018)

It never breaks free of the confines of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but Black Panther is exciting and dramatically-rich in ways few MCU films are.

David Cronenberg: Stereo (1969)

Stereo is dramatically boring, but it's an essential prototype of the sort of clinical, art-horror that Cronenberg would become known for.

Flash Back, Reviews, David Cronenberg, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromFebruary 23, 2018Ron Mlodzik, Jack Messinger, Iain Ewing, Clara Mayer, Paul Mulholland, Arlene Mlodzik, Glenn McCauley, Stereo, Cronenberg on Cronenberg, David Cronenberg Comment

Review: The 15:17 to Paris (2018)

This is a bizarre film, but one that confronts reality in often-fascinating ways.

Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromFebruary 19, 2018Spencer Stone, Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, Judy Greer, Jenna Fischer, Clint Eastwood, Dorothy Blyskal, Jeffrey E. Stern, The 15:17 to ParisComment

Review: The Breadwinner (2017)

With grace and unflinching honesty, The Breadwinner powerfully contemplates the power of stories and the meaning of hardship in the world.

The Current: In Theatres, Reviews, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromFebruary 9, 2018Saara Chaudry, Soma Bhatia, Noorin Gulamguas, Kane Mahon, Laara Sadiq, Ali Badshah, Shaista Latif, Nora Twomey, The Breadwinner, Anita Doron, Deborah Ellis, Cartoon SaloonComment

Review: The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

The Cloverfield Paradox has no meaningful reason to exist beyond providing tenuous connections to the two other films in the franchise.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromFebruary 6, 2018Gugu Mbatha-Raw, David Oyelowo, Daniel Brühl, John Ortiz, Chris O’Dowd, Aksel Hennie, Zhang Ziyi, Elizabeth Debicki, Julius Onah, Oren Uziel, Doug Jung, The Coverfield Paradox, Cloverfield, J.J. AbramsComment

Review: The Flowers of St. Francis (1950)

An appropriate wedding of subject matter and style from Roberto Rossellini.

Reviews, Flash Back, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromFebruary 1, 2018Brother Nazario Gerardi, Brother Severino Pisacane, Esposito Bonaventura, Aldo Fabrizi, Arabella Lemaitre, Brother Nazareno, Brother Raffaele, Brother Robert Sorrentino, Roberto Rossellini, Federico Fellini, The Flowers of St. FrancisComment

Review: Adam's Rib (1949)

Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy remain delightful, but whatever cultural power Adam's Rib once held has been obliterated with time.

Flash Back, Reviews, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromJanuary 26, 2018Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell, David Wayne, Jean Hagen, George Cukor, Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin, Adam's RibComment

Review: Phantom Thread (2017)

Phantom Thread is a beguiling masterwork from Paul Thomas Anderson, full of psychological and artistic insights and aesthetic delights.

The Current: In Theatres, Reviews, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromJanuary 18, 2018Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville, Vicky Krieps, Phantom Thread, Paul Thomas AndersonComment

Christmas: The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

The Shop Around the Corner is an exceptional romantic comedy that captures the intellectual and emotional fencing match that is early romance.

Christmas, Reviews, Flash Back, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromDecember 19, 2017Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut, Sara Haden, Felix Bressart, William Tracy, Ernst Lubitsch, Samson Raphaelson, Ben Hecht, Parfumerie, The Shop Around the Corner, Christmas Comment

Review: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is as shamelessly manipulative and formulaic as a Hallmark picture, but at least those films are self-consistent.

Review: The Disaster Artist (2017)

This is a work of exceptional sympathy, of one artist bonding with another and transcending his own failings as he explores the failings of another.

Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromDecember 8, 2017James Franco, Dave Franco, Seth Rogen, Alison Brie, Ari Graynor, Josh Hutcherson, Jacki Weaver, The Disaster Artist, The Room, Tommy Wiseau, Greg Sestero, Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber, Tom BissellComment

Review: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is funny and thoughtful with moments of arresting pathos, but it's also a little confounding.

Review: Wheelman (2017)

Wheelman is the sort of honest B-movie entertainment that Netflix ought to be funding more often.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromDecember 4, 2017Frank Grillo, Garret Dillahunt, Caitlin Carmichael, Wendy Moniz, Shea Whigham., WheelmanComment