Blog — 3 Brothers Film

Review: Three Identical Strangers (2018)

Tim Wardle’s documentary pulls the rug out from under the audience while perceptively examining nature vs nurture.

Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromAugust 31, 2018Three Identical Strangers, Tim Wardle, David Kellman, Bobby Shafran, Eddy GallandComment

Review: Eighth Grade (2018)

Bo Burnham’s directorial debut captures essential truths about the awkwardness of adolescence.

Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromAugust 17, 2018Bo Burnham, Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson, Jake Ryan, Fred Hechinger, Eighth GradeComment

Review: Sorry to Bother You (2018)

Boots Riley’s economic and racial satire is ambitious yet unfocused, and ultimately undone by its ideological preoccupations.

The Current: In Theatres, ReviewsAren BergstromJuly 31, 2018Lakeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Jermaine Fowler, Omari Hardwick, Terry Crews, Patton Oswalt, David Cross, Danny Glover, Steven Yeun, Armie Hamme, Boots Riley, Sorry to Bother YouComment

Review: Leave No Trace (2018)

This is a quiet drama with fabulous performances and an uncanny attention to detail.

Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromJuly 20, 2018Debra Granik, Leave No Trace, Anne Rosellini, Peter Rock, Ben Foster, Thomasin McKenzie, Jeff Kober, Dale DickeyComment

Review: Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)

Sicario: Day of the Soldado is an unnecessary sequel and a step-down from its predecessor, but it’s still an effective action film and a complex look at the drug war.

Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromJuly 10, 2018Stefano Sollima, Taylor Sheridan, Benicio del Toro, Josh Brolin, Isabela Moner, Jeffrey Donovan, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Elijah Rodriguez, Matthew Modine, Catherine Keener, SicarioComment

Review: Tag (2018)

Diverting like a childhood game, but also essentially meaningless.

Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromJune 29, 2018Ed Helms, Jake Johnson, Annabelle Wallis, Hannibal Buress, Isla Fisher, Rashida Jones, Leslie Bibb, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Jeff Tomsic, Rob McKittrick, Mark Steilen, Tag, Russell AdamsComment

Review: Deadpool 2 (2018)

Ignore the faux-transgressive humour. Deadpool 2 is as tired and generic a superhero film as you can get.

Review: A Quiet Place (2018)

A Quiet Place is a competent sci-fi horror film with a novel premise.

Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAnton BergstromJune 8, 2018A Quiet Place, John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe, Bryan Woods, Scott Beck, science, science fiction horror, horror, suspense, alien invasion, deaf, quiet, post-apocalypticComment

Review: The Rider (2017)

This blend of documentary and fiction about an injured rodeo rider is one of the best American indies of recent years.

Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromMay 18, 2018The Rider, Chloé Zhao, Brady Jandreau, Tim Jandraeu, Lilly Jandreau, Lane Scott, Cat CliffordComment

Review: Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

Thanos’s quest for the Infinity Stones comes to the screen in a blockbuster entertainment that challenges the very notion and coherence of considering these as traditional cinematic stories.

Review: Game Night (2018)

A legitimately good movie in addition to being a funny and clever one.

Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromApril 27, 2018Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams, Billy Magnussen, Sharon Horgan, Lamorne Morris, Kylie Bunbury, Jesse Plemons, Michael C. Hall, Kyle Chandler, John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein, Mark Perez, Game NightComment

Review: You Were Never Really Here (2018)

Lynne Ramsay's latest is a tedious bore that wastes a great actor and indulges in the worst impulses of art-film storytelling.

The Current: In Theatres, ReviewsAren BergstromApril 20, 2018Joaquin Phoenix, Ekaterina Samsonov, Alex Manette, John Doman, Judith Roberts, Alessandro Nivola, Frank Pando, Lynne Ramsay, Jonathan Ames, You Were Never Really HereComment

Review: Annihilation (2018)

Ex Machina was a promising debut and a superior work of science-fiction, but Annihilation is on a whole other level.

Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromMarch 16, 2018Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny, Benedict Wong, Oscar Isaac, Alex Garland, Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation, Ex MachinaComment

Review: Mary and the Witch's Flower (2017)

If you were charmed by the adventures of Kiki and Chihiro and Mei and Satsuki in the films of Studio Ghibli, the adventure of Mary and the cat Tib will delight you.

Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromMarch 14, 2018Ruby Barnhill, Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Kate Winslet, Jim Broadbent, Ewen Bremner, Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Riko Sakaguchi, Mary and the Witch's Flower, Studio Ponoc, Studio GhibliComment

Review: Black Panther (2018)

It never breaks free of the confines of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but Black Panther is exciting and dramatically-rich in ways few MCU films are.

Review: The 15:17 to Paris (2018)

This is a bizarre film, but one that confronts reality in often-fascinating ways.

Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromFebruary 19, 2018Spencer Stone, Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, Judy Greer, Jenna Fischer, Clint Eastwood, Dorothy Blyskal, Jeffrey E. Stern, The 15:17 to ParisComment

Review: The Breadwinner (2017)

With grace and unflinching honesty, The Breadwinner powerfully contemplates the power of stories and the meaning of hardship in the world.

The Current: In Theatres, ReviewsAren BergstromFebruary 9, 2018Saara Chaudry, Soma Bhatia, Noorin Gulamguas, Kane Mahon, Laara Sadiq, Ali Badshah, Shaista Latif, Nora Twomey, The Breadwinner, Anita Doron, Deborah Ellis, Cartoon SaloonComment

Review: Phantom Thread (2017)

Phantom Thread is a beguiling masterwork from Paul Thomas Anderson, full of psychological and artistic insights and aesthetic delights.

The Current: In Theatres, ReviewsAren BergstromJanuary 18, 2018Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville, Vicky Krieps, Phantom Thread, Paul Thomas AndersonComment

Review: The Disaster Artist (2017)

This is a work of exceptional sympathy, of one artist bonding with another and transcending his own failings as he explores the failings of another.

Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromDecember 8, 2017James Franco, Dave Franco, Seth Rogen, Alison Brie, Ari Graynor, Josh Hutcherson, Jacki Weaver, The Disaster Artist, The Room, Tommy Wiseau, Greg Sestero, Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber, Tom BissellComment

Review: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is funny and thoughtful with moments of arresting pathos, but it's also a little confounding.