Blog — 3 Brothers Film

Review: Return to Seoul (2022)

Davy Chou’s Return to Seoul is an intimate examination of a troubled young woman.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromMarch 17, 2023Return to Seoul, Davy Chou, Oh Kwang-rok, Guka Han, Kim Sun-young, Yoann Zimmer, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Cho woo-Choi, Park Ji-minComment

Review: Creed III (2023)

Michael B. Jordan’s Creed III is another examination of what makes a man in a cinematic culture that’s hardly interested in the question.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromMarch 3, 2023Michael B. Jordan, Keenan Coogler, Zach Baylin, Ryan Coogler, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Jonathan Majors, Wood Harris, Florian Munteanu, Phylicia RashadComment

Review: Infinity Pool (2023)

Brandon Cronenberg’s Infinity Pool is a transgressive work of body horror that provides a moral critique of the elite through its shocking content.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromFebruary 23, 2023Infinity Pool, Brandon Cronenberg, Alexander Skarsgard, Mia Goth, Cleopatra Coleman, Jalil Lespert, Amanda Brugel, John Ralston, Jeffrey Ricketts, Caroline Boulton, Thomas KretschmannComment

Review: Plane (2023)

The Gerard Butler-starring Plane is a no-frills action thriller that leans into convention to satisfying results.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromFebruary 15, 2023Jean-François Richet, Charles Cumming, J. P. Davis, Gerard Butler, Mike Colter, Yoson An, Tony Goldwyn, Daniella Pineda, Paul Ben-Victor, PlaneComment

Review: Black Adam (2022)

Dwayne Johnson’s DCEU superhero film is a pale imitation of a Zack Snyder film, and proof of why the DCEU is being rebooted.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromFebruary 7, 2023Black Adam, Jaume Collet-Serra, Adam Sztykiel, Rory Haines, Sohrab Noshirvani, DC, DCEU, Dwayne Johnson, Aldis Hodge, Noah Centineo, Sarah Shahi, Marwan Kenzari, Quintessa Swindell, Pierce BrosnanComment

Review: Skinamarink (2022)

Kyle Edward Ball’s low-budget experimental horror film is a dissociative nightmare.

Aren's Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, ReviewsAren BergstromJanuary 31, 2023Skinamarink, Kyle Edward Ball, Heck, Lucas Paul, Dali Rose Tetreault, Ross Paul, Jaime Hill, horror, experimental, found-footage horrorComment

Review: Babylon (2022)

Damien Chazelle’s epic tragicomedy, Babylon, is yet another investigation of the personal cost of art and a wildly ambitious, if uneven, ode to silent cinema.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromJanuary 26, 2023Damien Chazelle, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva, Jean Smart, Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li, Babylon, Hollywood, Los Angeles, silent filmComment

Review: Broker (2022)

Hirokazu Kore-eda transforms what sounds like a dour thriller into a heartfelt examination of forgiveness and what constitutes a family.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromJanuary 20, 2023Broker, South Korea, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Song Kang-ho, Gang Dong-won, Bae Doona, Lee Ji-eun, Lee Joo-young, Im Seung-sooComment

Christmas: Spirited (2022)

Sean Anders’ musical riff on A Christmas Carol starring Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds is a hyperactive, amiable, and incoherent bit of Christmas content.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At Home, ChristmasAren BergstromJanuary 9, 2023Spirited, Sean Anders, John Morris, A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds, Octavia Spencer, Sunita Mani, Patrick Page, Marlow Barkley, Tracy MorganComment

Review: Aftersun (2022)

Charlotte Wells’ debut feature, Aftersun, is a cinematic act of recollection and a tribute to a father she never properly understood.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromDecember 21, 2022Aftersun, Charlotte Wells, Paul Mescal, Frankie CorioComment

Review: EO (2022)

Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO, a remake-of-sorts of Robert Bresson’s Au Hasard Balthazar, creates a portrait of animal personhood in its tale of a donkey passed between owners in modern Poland.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromDecember 20, 2022EO, Poland, Au Hasard Balthazar, Robert Bresson, Jerzy Skolimowski, Ewa Piaskowska, Sandra Drzymalska, Lorenzo Zurzolo, Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Isabelle HuppertComment

James Cameron: Avatar (2009)

With Avatar, the biggest film of all time, James Cameron makes a populist blockbuster that works as a cinematic baptism for the viewer.

James Cameron: Expedition: Bismarck (2002)

In Expedition: Bismarck, James Cameron uses the conventions of television historical documentaries to present a portrait of himself as a storyteller and an amateur scientist.

Aren's Reviews, James Cameron, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, ReviewsAren BergstromDecember 12, 2022James Cameron, James Cameron Retrospective, Gary Johnstone, Expedition: Bismarck, Bismarck, WWII, Discovery Channel, television, documentaryComment

James Cameron: Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

James Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day is the ur-sequel, the cinematic text that shows what is possible not only in sequel cinematic storytelling, but in the blockbuster movie as a whole.

Aren's Reviews, Flash Back, James Cameron, ReviewsAren BergstromDecember 6, 2022Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Terminator, James Cameron, James Cameron Retrospective, William Wisher, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick, Edward Furlong, Earl Boen, Joe MortonComment

Review: Athena (2022)

Romain Gavras’ Athena is an impressive formal achievement, although it never manages to resolve the tensions between its operatic storytelling and its slightly-artificial visual approach.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromNovember 28, 2022Athena, Romain Gavras, Ladj Ly, Elias Belkeddar, Dali Benssalah, Sami Slimane, Anthony Bajon, Ouassani Embarek, Alexis ManentiComment

James Cameron: Piranha II: The Spawning (1982)

James Cameron might’ve been fired from the production of Piranha II: The Spawning, but the shlocky Jaws ripoff remains instrumental in showing the elements that shaped Cameron as a filmmaker.