Blog — 3 Brothers Film

Review: Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

An embarrassingly lazy film on almost every level.

Review: Deadwood: The Movie (2019)

After 13 years, Deadwood finally gets some bittersweet closure.

Review: Galveston (2018)

A textured character piece that could’ve used more noir elements.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromApril 25, 2019Mélanie Laurent, Nic Pizzolatto, Jim Hammett, Ben Foster, Elle Fanning, Lili Reinhart, Adepero Oduye, Robert Aramayo, María Valverde, CK McFarland, Beau Bridges, GalvestonComment

Review: Kati Kati (2016)

This is entertainment that is dramatically engaging, culturally-specific, and aesthetically bold.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromMarch 5, 2019Kati Kati, Mbithi Masya, Mugambi Nthiga, Nyokabi Gethaiga, Elsaphan Njora, Paul Ogola, Peter King MwaniaComment

Review: High Flying Bird (2019)

Soderbergh’s basketball drama is winning combination of form and content.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromFebruary 27, 2019High Flying Bird, Steven Soderbergh, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Andre Holland, Zazie Beetz, Melvin Gregg, Sonja Sohn, Zachary Quinto, Kyle MacLachlan, Bill DukeComment

Review: Fyre (2019)

Compelling documentation that indulges our schadenfreude, but never becomes insightful commentary.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromFebruary 12, 2019Fyre, Fyre Festival, Netflix, Chris SmithComment

Review: Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)

Don’t let the satire misguide you; this is a classical horror film through and through.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromFebruary 7, 2019Velvet Buzzsaw, Dan Gilroy, Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Toni Collette, Zawe Ashton, Tom Sturridge, Natalia Dyer, Daveed Diggs, Billy Magnussen, John Malkovich, NetflixComment

Review: Roma (2018)

Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma is a grand and sensitive story that showcases the director’s formal prowess while looking back to the traditions of neorealist cinema.

Reviews, The Current: At HomeAnders BergstromJanuary 11, 2019Roma, Alfonso Cuaron, Mexico, neorealism, black and white, NetflixComment

Review: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is bleak and darkly funny Western anthology from the Coen Brothers, but doesn’t quite add up to more than the sum of its parts.

Reviews, The Current: At HomeAnders BergstromNovember 20, 2018Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan Coen, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, western, anthology, black comedy, violence, James Franco, Tim Blake Nelson, Tom Waits, Zoe Kazan, Liam Neeson, Brendan GleesonComment

Review: Small Town Crime (2017)

A modest crime thriller that does just enough with its well-worn genre elements.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromJune 22, 2018John Hawkes, Anthony Anderson, Clifton Collins Jr., Michael Vartan, Caity Lotz, James Lafferty, Robert Forster, Octavia Spencer, Dale Dickey, Eshom Nelms, Ian Nelms, Small Town CrimeComment

Review: Brigsby Bear (2017)

Brigsby Bear plays like a smash-up between Be Kind, Rewind and Room, although it’s not half as interesting as that bizarre remix sounds.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromMay 4, 2018Kyle Mooney, Mark Hamill, Greg Kinnear, Matt Walsh, Michaela Watkins, Ryan Simpkins, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Andy Samberg, Jane Adams, Claire Dane, Kevin Costello, Dave McCary, Brigsby BearComment

Review: Darkest Hour (2017)

Splendid parts, but mostly conventional, with one egregious miscalculation.

Reviews, The Current: At HomeAnton BergstromApril 5, 2018Darkest Hour, Joe Wright, Anthony McCarten, Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James, Stephen Dillane, Ronald Pickup, Ben Mendelsohn, World War II, politics, war movie, British, Winston Churchill, DunkirkComment

Review: It Comes at Night (2017)

It Comes at Night is often beautiful and atmospheric and interesting, but it is not scary and it is not exciting.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromMarch 29, 2018Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbott, Carmen Ejogo, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Riley Keough, Griffin Robert Faulkner, It Comes at Night, Trey Edward ShultsComment

Review: Grimsby (2016)

Disgusting, ungainly, and offensive to every shred of decency a person may have. But also extremely funny.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromMarch 23, 2018Grimsby, Sacha Baron Cohen, Mark Strong, Rebel Wilson, Penélope Cruz, Isla Fisher, Gabourey Sidibe, Louis Leterrier, Phil Johnston, Peter BaynhamComment

Review: Faces Places (2017)

Faces Places is a moving film and worth celebrating, if only for the fact that at almost-90, Agnès Varda hasn't slowed down.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromMarch 7, 2018Agnès Varda, JR, Faces PlacesComment

Review: Train to Busan (2016)

Train to Busan thrills with confined railcar suspense, large-scale disaster action, and effective social commentary.

Review: The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

The Cloverfield Paradox has no meaningful reason to exist beyond providing tenuous connections to the two other films in the franchise.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromFebruary 6, 2018Gugu Mbatha-Raw, David Oyelowo, Daniel Brühl, John Ortiz, Chris O’Dowd, Aksel Hennie, Zhang Ziyi, Elizabeth Debicki, Julius Onah, Oren Uziel, Doug Jung, The Coverfield Paradox, Cloverfield, J.J. AbramsComment

Review: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is as shamelessly manipulative and formulaic as a Hallmark picture, but at least those films are self-consistent.

Review: Wheelman (2017)

Wheelman is the sort of honest B-movie entertainment that Netflix ought to be funding more often.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromDecember 4, 2017Frank Grillo, Garret Dillahunt, Caitlin Carmichael, Wendy Moniz, Shea Whigham., WheelmanComment

Review: 11/8/16 (2017)

There’s no good reason for 11/8/16 to exist in this moment, beyond our obsessive need to relive past trauma with no desire to learn from it.