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Review: Palo Alto (2014)

Review: Palo Alto (2014)

A moody and perceptive teen drama.

Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromJuly 28, 2014drama, Emma Roberts, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Gia Coppola, high school, Jack Kilmer, James Franco, Nat Wolff, Palo Alto, teenagers, teens, Zoe LevinComment

Review: 22 Jump Street (2014)

Review: 22 Jump Street (2014)

Ridiculous, hilarious, and irreverent, but in a nice way.

Review: Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (2013)

Review: Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (2013)

Clever, hilarious, and more than a little insane.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromJuly 3, 2014adventure, Chinese, Chinese film, comedy, Derek Kwok, Huang Bo, Journey to the West, Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons, legend, Shu Qi, Stephen Chow, Wen ZhangComment

Review: Tiger & Bunny: The Rising (2014)

Review: Tiger & Bunny: The Rising (2014)

Its colourful, offbeat heroics make up for the paint-by-numbers plot.

Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromJune 25, 2014action, animation, anime, Barnaby Brooks Jr-, HeroTV, Japanese, Masafumi Nishida, superheroes, Tiger & Bunny, Tiger & Bunny: The Rising, Wild Tiger, Yoshitomo YonetaniComment

Review: Locke (2013)

Review: Locke (2013)

An exceptional performance in a successful gimmick.

Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromJune 20, 2014Andrew Scott, confined filmmaking, drama, England, Locke, Olivia Colman, one-man show, Ruth Wilson, Steven Knight, Tom HardyComment

Review: Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

Review: Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

Cruise's time looper is an action spectacle success!

Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAnton BergstromJune 18, 2014action, alien invasion, Bill Paxton, Brendan Gleeson, Christopher McQuarrie, Doug Liman, Edge of Tomorrow, Emily Blunt, repetition, science fiction, time travel, Tom Cruise, video gameComment

Review: Chef (2014)

Review: Chef (2014)

Light, but exuberantly delightful.

Review: Enemy of the State (1998)

Review: Enemy of the State (1998)

90s paranoia is now the 2010s matter of fact.

Review: Blue Ruin (2013)

Review: Blue Ruin (2013)

A precise, clever revenge thriller.

Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromJune 2, 2014action, Blue Ruin, Coen brothers, drama, Jeremy Saulnier, Macon Blair, No Country for Old Men, revenge thrillerComment

Review: Ida (2013)

Review: Ida (2013)

Opaque, dour, but beautiful.

Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromMay 16, 20141960s, Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, drama, Ida, nuns, Pawel Pawlikowska, Poland, World War TwoComment

HotDocs14: The Beijing Ants

HotDocs14: The Beijing Ants

Home movie approach both necessary and frustrating.

Reviews, The Festival CircuitAnton BergstromMay 1, 2014apartments, Beijing, capitalism, China, home movie, Hot Docs, HotDocs14, moving, rent, Ryuji OtsukaComment

HotDocs14: Silenced

HotDocs14: Silenced

An accessible, gripping account of US government secrecy and surveillance.

Reviews, The Festival CircuitAnton BergstromApril 30, 2014documentary, government secrecy, government surveillance, Hot Docs, HotDocs14, injustice, intelligence world, James Spione, legal battle, Silenced, USA, whistleblowersComment

HotDocs14: The Condemned

HotDocs14: The Condemned

Offers little more than the intriguing premise evokes.

Reviews, The Festival CircuitAnton BergstromApril 29, 2014crime, documentary, HotDocs, HotDocs14, HotDocs2014, murder, prison, punishment, Russia, The CondemnedComment

Review: Devils on the Doorstep (2000)

Review: Devils on the Doorstep (2000)

Jiang Wen's wise, disturbing black comedy.

Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromApril 24, 2014Cannes Film Festival, China, Chinese film, Devils on the Doorstep, Grand Prix, Japan, Jiang WenComment

Review: Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

Review: Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

The latest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is also one of the best.

Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAnders BergstromApril 12, 2014action, Captain America, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Chris Evans, comic book movie, Joe and Anthony Russo, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Studios, Robert Redford, Samuel L- Jackson, Scarlett Johansson Comment

Review: Divergent (2014)

Review: Divergent (2014)

Bloated, dull, and commercially constructed.

Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromApril 1, 2014actiona, adventure, Divergent, dystopia, Kate Winslet, Neil Burger, Shailene Woodley, The Hunger Games, Theo James, Veronica Roth, Young AdultComment

Review: Let the Bullets Fly (2010)

Review: Let the Bullets Fly (2010)

Allegorical satire disguised as riotous entertainment.

Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromMarch 25, 2014action, allegory, China, Chow Yun-fat, comedy, communist revolution, Ge You, Hong Kong, Jiang Wen, Maoist revolution, satire, westernComment

Review: Enemy (2014)

Review: Enemy (2014)

Villeneuve channels Lynch and Cronenberg to exceptional results.

Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromMarch 18, 2014Canadian film, Denis Villeneuve, doppelganger, Enemy, Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, mindbender, Sarah Gadon, thriller Comment

Review: 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

Review: 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

A vulgar, novel action film.

Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromMarch 14, 2014300: Rise of an Empire, action, Athenians, comic book, Eva Green, Frank Miller, Greeks, Noam Murro, Persians, Spartans, Sullivan Stapleton, Zack SnyderComment

Review: The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

Review: The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

Rousing historical adventure full of passion.

Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromMarch 5, 2014adventure, Daniel Day-Lewis, historical epic, James Fenimore Cooper, Madeleine Stowe, Michael Mann, romance, The Last of the Mohicans, Wes Studi Comments