Blog — 3 Brothers Film

Review: Diego Maradona (2019)

Asif Kapadia charts the heroic, tragic life of the late Diego Maradona in this stunning documentary made entirely of archival footage.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromDecember 2, 2020Asif Kapadia, Diego MaradonaComment

Review: David Byrne's American Utopia (2020)

American Utopia has been billed a successor to the Talking Heads’ masterful Stop Making Sense, but while the music is good as always, this show doesn’t quite live up to its promise.

Reviews, The Current: At HomeAnders BergstromNovember 30, 2020concert film, American Utopia, Spike Lee, David Byrne, Stop Making Sense, Talking Heads, musicComment

Review: Tesla (2020)

Director Michael Almereyda confronts the notion of objective biography head-on in his off-kilter biopic of Nikola Tesla, starring Ethan Hawke.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromNovember 25, 2020Tesla, Michael Almereyda, Ethan Hawke, Kyle MacLachlan, Eve Hewson, Jim Gaffigan, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Hannah Gross, Josh Hamilton, Peter Greene Comment

Review: The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)

Aaron Sorkin’s dramatic retelling of the famous show trial distorts history in order to champion blandly-liberal American values.

Review: The Way Back (2020)

Gavin O’Connor’s inspirational sports and addiction drama succeeds on the strength of Ben Affleck’s intimate performance.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromNovember 16, 2020The Way Back, Gavin O'Connor, Brad Ingelsby, Ben Affleck, Al Madrigal, Michaela Watkins, Janina Gavankar, Brandon WilsonComment

Review: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm is the funniest film of the year and doubles down on the absurdity of 2020.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromNovember 13, 2020Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Borat, Jason Woliner, Sacha Baron Cohen, Maria BakalovaComment

Review: The Social Dilemma (2020)

The Social Dilemma is hardly nuanced and its narrative dramatizations are lame, but it makes a compelling argument that social media is harming our culture.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromSeptember 24, 2020The Social Dilemma, Fyre, The Great Hack, Jeff Orlowski, Davis Coombe, Vickie Curtis, Skyler Gisondo, Kara Hayward, Vincent Kartheiser, NetflixComment

Review: The Predator (2018)

Shane Black’s latest entry to the Predator franchise has Black’s trademark humour, but is undone by sloppy narrative structure and preposterous attempts at timeliness.

Review: Extraction (2020)

Extraction is just as humourless and imperialistic as most modern American action movies, but at least it has good action.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromJuly 31, 2020Sam Hargrave, Joe Russo, Anthony Russo, Ande Parks, Fernando Leon Gonzalez, Chris Hemsworth, Rudhraksh Jaiswal, Randeep Hooda, Golshifteh Farahani, Pankaj Tripathi, David Harbour, Extraction, NetflixComment

Review: Ip Man 4: The Finale (2019)

The fight scenes are as impressive as ever, but the story crumbles under the weight of its propaganda messaging.

Review: Bad Education (2019)

Cory Finley’s Bad Education contains a great Hugh Jackman performance and gets at the heart of bad people who think they’re doing good.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromJuly 17, 2020Cory Finley, Mike Markowsky, Hugh Jackman, Allison Janney, Geraldine Viswanathan, Alex Wolff, Rafael Casal, Stephen Spinella, Annaleigh Ashford, Ray Romano, Bad EducationComment

Review: Capone (2020)

Josh Trank’s comeback is a deeply messy deconstruction of Al Capone, featuring a bizarre Tom Hardy as the dying gangster.

Reviews, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromJuly 14, 2020Capone, Josh Trank, Tom Hardy, Linda Cardellini, Matt Dillon, Al Sapienza, Kathrine Narducci, Noel Fisher, Kyle MacLachlanComment

Review: Young Ahmed (2019)

The newest film from the Dardenne Brothers, Young Ahmed, tells the story of a young teenager in Belgium who has been radicalized by fundamentalist Islam and how that affects his relationship with his community and society.

Reviews, The Current: At HomeAnders BergstromJune 4, 2020The Dardenne Brothers, Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Europe, social criticism, social realism, neorealism, drama, IslamComment

Review: Beastie Boys Story (2020)

Beastie Boys Story is an inspiring look back on the journey of the band, as told by two of the guys who lived it.

Reviews, The Current: At HomeAnders BergstromMay 19, 2020documentary, concert film, Spike Jonze, Beastie Boys, Adam Yauch, Mike D, Adam Horovitz, music, hip-hopComment

Review: Yesterday (2019)

With Yesterday, Danny Boyle and Richard Curtis craft a serviceable romantic comedy around the idea of a world where only one man can remember the Beatles, but never take its high-concept to the next level.