Blog — 3 Brothers Film

Hot Docs 2022: African Moot

Shameela Seedat’s African Moot uses its seemingly low stakes competition as a microcosm for the larger legal world.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Festival CircuitAren BergstromMay 2, 2022Hot Docs, Hot Docs 2022, African Moot, Shameela SeedatComment

Review: Windfall (2022)

Windfall is a minimalist thriller whose modest dramatic tension is thrown off balance by its miscasting.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromApril 27, 2022Windfall, Charlie McDowell, Justin Lader, Andrew Kevin Walker, Jason Segel, Lily Collins, Jesse PlemonsComment

Review: The House (2022)

Netflix’s stop-motion anthology film is often chilling, occasionally amusing, and visually intricate.

Review: Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood (2022)

Richard Linklater’s Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood offers a warm hug of 1960s space age nostalgia.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromApril 11, 2022Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood, Richard Linklater, Milo Coy, Jack Black, Glen Powell, Zachary Levi, Josh Wiggins, Lee Eddy, Bill Wise, Natalie L’Amoreaux, Jessica Brynn Cohen, Sam Chipman, Danielle GuilbotComment

Review: X (2022)

Ti West’s X is a nasty, entertaining slasher with well-developed characters and some surprising moral commentary.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromApril 1, 2022X, Ti West, Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega, Martin Henderson, Brittany Snow, Owen Campbell, Stephen Ure, Scott MescudiComment

Review: The Batman (2022)

Matt Reeves’s take on Batman is brooding, stylish, and refreshingly cinematic.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromMarch 18, 2022Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro, Peter Sarsgaard, Andy Serkis, Colin Farrell, The Batman, Matt Reeves, Peter CraigComment

Review: Almost Holy (2015)

This 2015 documentary about Ukrainian Pastor Gennadiy Mokhnenko asks the question: what does it look like to live out the gospel in the modern world?

Aren's Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, ReviewsAren BergstromMarch 15, 2022Almost Holy, Steve Hoover, Crocodile GennadiyComment

Review: Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)

The new Texas Chainsaw Massacre requel is stylish and short, but it has a dearth of compelling characters and story at its centre.

Review: Kimi (2022)

Steven Soderbergh’s new techno-thriller set during the pandemic is timely and stylish, but narratively predictable.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromMarch 2, 2022Kimi, Steven Soderbergh, David Koepp, Zoë Kravitz, Betsy Brandley, Rita Wilson, India de Beaufort, Emily Kuroda, Byron Bowers, Alex Dobrenko, Jaime Camil, Devin Ratray, Andy DalyComment

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