Blog — 3 Brothers Film

Review: The Worst Person in the World (2021)

Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the World expresses the ineffable in ways that are rarely achieved on film.

Review: Bulworth (1998)

Warren Beatty’s political satire, Bulworth, finds new relevance in a post-Trump world.

Aren's Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, ReviewsAren BergstromFebruary 16, 2022Bulworth, Warren Beatty, Jeremy Pikser, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Oliver Platt, Paul Sorvino, Jack Warden, Isaiah WashingtonComment

Review: Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

Spider-Man: No Way Home is fun as a movie, but troubling as a statement about where Hollywood is headed.

Review: Scream (2022)

Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s “requel” of the Scream series doubles down on the meta aspect of the series to entertaining effect.

Review: Under Siege (1992)

Under Siege may be Steven Seagal’s best movie, but it’d be much better if he wasn’t in it at all.

Aren's Reviews, Flash Back, ReviewsAren BergstromJanuary 20, 2022Under Siege, Andrew Davis, J. F. Lawton, Steven Seagal, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Busey, Colm Meaney, Patrick O'Neal, Andy Romano, Dale Dye, Nick Mancuso, Erika EleniakComment

Review: Riders of Justice (2020)

Anders Thomas Jensen’s action dramedy starring Mads Mikkelsen handles character drama and emotional growth in surprising and moving ways.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromJanuary 13, 2022Riders of Justice, Anders Thomas Jensen, Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Andrea Heick Gadeberg, Lars Brygmann, Nicolas Bro, Gustav Lindh, Roland Moller, Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt, Anne Birgitte LindComment

Review: The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

Lana Wachowski’s legacy sequel is a meta-investigation of the meaning of the franchise and an idiosyncratic science-fiction romance.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromJanuary 7, 2022The Matrix, The Matrix Resurrections, Lana Wachowski, David Mitchell, Aleksandar Hemon, Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jessica Henwick, Jonathan Groff, Neil Patrick Harris, Priyanka Chopra Jones, Jada Pinkett SmithComment

Review: Don't Look Up (2021)

The problem with Adam McKay’s political satire isn’t that it’s not satire, but that it’s toothless satire.

Christmas: 8-Bit Christmas (2021)

Michael Dowse’s Christmas comedy about the quest for an NES plays like A Christmas Story set in the 1980s.

Review: Nightmare Alley (1947)

Nightmare Alley is a stunning film noir about a marvellously successful bastard and his dreadful comeuppance.

Aren's Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, ReviewsAren BergstromDecember 10, 2021Nightmare Alley, Edmund Goulding, Jules Furthman, William Lindsay Gresham, Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker, Taylor Holmes, Mike Mazurki, Ian KeithComment

Review: Spencer (2021)

Pablo Larraín’s film starring Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana smartly plays more like a psychological horror film than a tasteful biopic.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromNovember 29, 2021Spencer, Pablo Larrain, Steven Knight, Kristen Stewart, Timothy Spall, Jack Farthing, Sean Harris, Sally Hawkins, Jack Nielen, Freddie SpryComment

Review: Untold: Crime & Penalties (2021)

The Way Brothers’ raucous film about the Danbury Trashers plays like a sequel to their previous sports documentary, The Battered Bastards of Baseball.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromNovember 18, 2021Untold, Crime & Penalties, Maclain Way, Chapman Way, documentaryComment

Review: A Glitch in the Matrix (2021)

Rodney Ascher’s film on the simulation hypothesis plays more like a religious testament than a documentary primer.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromNovember 8, 2021A Glitch in the Matrix, Rodney Ascher, simulation hypothesis, Philip K. DickComment

Halloween Horror: Cure (1997)

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s horror drama is a quiet film with a haunting effect that’s as disturbing as anything you’ll find in horror cinema.

Aren's Reviews, Halloween Horror, Flash Back, ReviewsAren BergstromOctober 27, 2021Halloween Horror, Cure, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Koji Takusho, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa, Masato HagiwaraComment

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: Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)

Andy Serkis’s Venom sequel is a deliriously entertaining, profoundly goofy camp blockbuster.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromOctober 13, 2021Venom, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Andy Serkis, Kelly Marcel, Tom Hardy, Marvel, Michelle Williams, Naomie Harris, Reid Scott, Stephen Graham, Woody HarrelsonComment

Halloween Horror: Unfriended (2014)

Leo Gabriadze’s found-footage horror movie about cyberbullying reinvents the slasher for the digital age.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, Halloween HorrorAren BergstromOctober 8, 2021Unfriended, Halloween Horror, Leo Gabriadze, Nelson Greaves, Shelley Hennig, Moses Storm, Renee Olstead, Will Peltz, Jacob Wysocki, Courtney Halverson, Heather SossamanComment

Review: Candyman (2021)

Nia DaCosta’s legacy sequel to Candyman is an ambitious horror movie with a great visual style and score that’s held back by its disappointing ending and reductive themes.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromSeptember 29, 2021Candyman, Nia DaCosta, Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Colman Domingo, Kyle Kaminsky, Vanessa Williams, Rebecca Spence, Michael Hargrove, Brian KingComment

TIFF21: Burning

Eva Orner’s documentary about the Australian bushfires of 2019-2020 is a quick-paced and informative, if overly conventional, work that’s best when it lets its anger fuel its storytelling.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Festival CircuitAren BergstromSeptember 21, 2021Toronto International Film Festival, TIFF21, Burning, Eva OrnerComment

TIFF21: Night Raiders

Danis Goulet’s debut feature is a potent sci-fi allegory for residential schools held back by its generic dystopian worldbuilding.

Aren's Reviews, The Festival Circuit, ReviewsAren BergstromSeptember 17, 2021Night Raiders, Danis Goulet, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Brooklyn Letexier-Hart, Alex Tarrant, Amanda Plummer, Violet Nelson, TIFF21, Toronto International Film FestivalComment