Blog — 3 Brothers Film

Review: Pathfinder (1987)

Retelling a Sami legend, Nils Gaup’s Pathfinder is both an act of cultural preservation and a thrilling action-adventure.

Review: Out of Africa (1985)

Sydney Pollack’s Best Picture winner feels like a film of a different age, and is all the better for it.

Aren's Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, ReviewsAren BergstromMarch 18, 2024Out of Africa, Sydney Pollack, Kurt Luedtke, Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen, Judith Thurman, Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen, Shane RimmerComment

Review: Seagrass (2023)

Seagrass is ultimately compelling because there are enough moments of artistic expression and perceptive character building to balance the more didactic storytelling.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromMarch 4, 2024Seagrass, Canadian film, Meredith Hama-Brown, Ally Maki, Luke Roberts, Nyha Huang Breitkreuz, Remy Marthaller, Sarah Gadon, Chris PangComment

Review: Men in Black (1997)

Our world is too fragmented and our cinema too convoluted to allow for movies as simply, competently fun as Men in Black.

Aren's Reviews, Flash Back, ReviewsAren BergstromFebruary 27, 2024Men in Black, Barry Sonnenfeld, Ed Solomon, Lowell Cunningham, Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D'Onofrio, Rip Torn, Tony Shalhoub, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Mike NussbaumComment

Review: Perfect Days (2023)

Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days is a beautiful corrective to the busyness of everyday life.

Aren's Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, ReviewsAren BergstromFebruary 21, 2024Perfect Days, Wim Wenders, Tokyo, Ozu, Takuma Takasaki, Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano, Aoi YamadaComment

Review: Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011)

The 2011 movie version of Mr. Popper’s Penguins shows little interest in the classic children’s book, let alone affection for it.

Review: Night Nurse (1931)

Night Nurse starring Barbara Stanwyck is a reminder of the salacious storytelling of pre-Code Hollywood.

Aren's Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, ReviewsAren BergstromFebruary 13, 2024Night Nurse, William A. Wellman, Oliver H.P. Garrett, Charles Kenyon, Dora Macy, Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell, Clark Gable, pre-CodeComment

Review: American Fiction (2023)

Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction strikes a delicate balance between hilarious satire and understated family drama.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromFebruary 7, 2024American Fiction, Cord Jefferson, Erasure, Percival Everett, Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Adam Brody, Issa Rae, Sterling K. BrownComment

Review: Shipwrecked (1990)

Shipwrecked is a competent boys’ own adventure, played without irony, revisionism, or computer-generated fakeness.

Review: Seven Veils (2023)

Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils is a vital, messy piece of self-expression from the Canadian auteur.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromJanuary 29, 2024Seven Veils, Salome, Atom Egoyan, Amanda Seyfried, Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Mark O'Brien, Vinessa Antoine, TIFFComment

Review: Maestro (2023)

Contradiction is the governing thematic and formal design for Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic.

Reviews, The Current: At HomeAnton BergstromJanuary 24, 2024Maestro, Leonard Bernstein, biopic, classical music, conductor, sexuality, marriage, Bradley Cooper, Josh Singer, Carey Mulligan, composerComment

Review: Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (2023)

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget is decent entertainment, but a significant step down from the original film.

Review: Wonka (2023)

Wonka is more like Paul King’s Paddington movies than either Gene Wilder’s 1971 adaptation or Roald Dahl’s original book.

Review: Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire (2023)

Although there are plenty of enjoyable Zack Snyder trademarks, the final result is never enough of its own thing.

Review: Godzilla Minus One (2023)

Takashi Yamazaki’s Godzilla Minus One works as a compelling postwar drama as well as an exciting kaiju picture.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromJanuary 5, 2024Godzilla, Godzilla Minus One, Takashi Yamazaki, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Sakura Ando, Kuranosuke Sakai, TohoComment

Review: Leave the World Behind (2023)

The hit Netflix apocalyptic psychological thriller is a movie for our moment.

Reviews, The Current: At HomeAnton BergstromJanuary 4, 2024Leave the World Behind, Sam Esmail, Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Myha'la, Farrah Mackenzie, Charlie Evans, Kevin Bacon, thriller, apocalypse, psychological thrillerComment

Review: The Boy and the Heron (2023)

The Boy and the Heron, Hayao Miyazaki’s latest masterpiece, beautifully poses the question of how do you live in a broken world?

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromDecember 29, 2023The Boy and the Heron, Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki, animationComment

Christmas: Elf (2003)

Jon Favreau’s Elf still remains the 21st-century’s most iconic Christmas classic.

Review: The Equalizer 3 (2023)

The Equalizer 3 blends together a brutal action film and a sentimental Hallmark-style drama about Italian village life.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromDecember 22, 2023The Equalizer 3, The Equalizer, Antoine Fuqua, Richard Wenk, Michael Sloan, Richard Lindheim, Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Eugenio Mastrandrea, David DenmanComment

Review: Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)

Irvin Kershner’s Eyes of Laura Mars has the thematic and narrative obsessions of giallo without the style.

Aren's Reviews, Flash Back, ReviewsAren BergstromDecember 13, 2023Eyes of Laura Mars, Irvin Kershner, John Carpenter, David Zelag Goodman, Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, René Auberjonois, Brad Dourif, Raoul JuliaComment