Blog — 3 Brothers Film

Review: Eternal Spring (2022)

Using animation to recreate the subjects’ memories, Eternal Spring considers the hijacking in 2002 of broadcast TV by a group of Falun Gong practitioners in northeastern China.

Reviews, The Current: At HomeAnton BergstromOctober 5, 2022documentary, animation, China, CCP, Falun Gong, Eternal Spring, Jason Loftus, Daxiong, memory, persecutionComment

Review: The Gray Man (2022)

Joe and Anthony Russo’s Netflix action blockbuster is modestly diverting content, but ultimately pulls it punches.

Review: The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth is marked by a strong performance by Denzel Washington as well as a preoccupation with its own artifice.

Reviews, The Current: At HomeAnton BergstromJuly 7, 2022William Shakespeare, Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Joel Coen, tragedy, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Brendan Gleeson, Alex Hassell, Kathryn Hunter, Corey Hawkins, Ralph Ineson, Stephen RootComment

Review: Spiderhead (2022)

As far as streaming content goes, Spiderhead isn’t bad, but it asks questions it has no real interest in answering.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromJune 28, 2022Spiderhead, Netflix, Joseph Kosinski, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, George Saunders, Escape From Spiderhead, Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller, Jurnee Smollett, Mark Verlaine, Tess Haubrich, Angie MillikanComment

Review: Hustle (2022)

Hustle is a movie about an NBA lifer made for lifelong fans of the game.

Review: Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022)

This naked attempt at content (re)generation is packaged alongside some arch yet soft satire and meta-commentary.

Reviews, The Current: At HomeAnton BergstromJune 10, 2022nostalgia, 1990s, meta, satire, Disney Animation, detective story Comment

Review: Windfall (2022)

Windfall is a minimalist thriller whose modest dramatic tension is thrown off balance by its miscasting.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromApril 27, 2022Windfall, Charlie McDowell, Justin Lader, Andrew Kevin Walker, Jason Segel, Lily Collins, Jesse PlemonsComment

Review: The House (2022)

Netflix’s stop-motion anthology film is often chilling, occasionally amusing, and visually intricate.

Review: Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood (2022)

Richard Linklater’s Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood offers a warm hug of 1960s space age nostalgia.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromApril 11, 2022Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood, Richard Linklater, Milo Coy, Jack Black, Glen Powell, Zachary Levi, Josh Wiggins, Lee Eddy, Bill Wise, Natalie L’Amoreaux, Jessica Brynn Cohen, Sam Chipman, Danielle GuilbotComment

Review: Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)

The new Texas Chainsaw Massacre requel is stylish and short, but it has a dearth of compelling characters and story at its centre.

Review: Kimi (2022)

Steven Soderbergh’s new techno-thriller set during the pandemic is timely and stylish, but narratively predictable.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromMarch 2, 2022Kimi, Steven Soderbergh, David Koepp, Zoë Kravitz, Betsy Brandley, Rita Wilson, India de Beaufort, Emily Kuroda, Byron Bowers, Alex Dobrenko, Jaime Camil, Devin Ratray, Andy DalyComment

Review: Riders of Justice (2020)

Anders Thomas Jensen’s action dramedy starring Mads Mikkelsen handles character drama and emotional growth in surprising and moving ways.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromJanuary 13, 2022Riders of Justice, Anders Thomas Jensen, Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Andrea Heick Gadeberg, Lars Brygmann, Nicolas Bro, Gustav Lindh, Roland Moller, Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt, Anne Birgitte LindComment

Review: Don't Look Up (2021)

The problem with Adam McKay’s political satire isn’t that it’s not satire, but that it’s toothless satire.

Christmas: Home Sweet Home Alone (2021)

Home Sweet Home Alone is bad in ways that are revealing of the differences between 1990s family entertainment and that of the 2020s.

Christmas, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAnton BergstromDecember 23, 2021Home Alone, home invasion, family comedy, Dan Mazer, Ellie Kemper, Rob Delaney, Archie Yates, Christmas movies, Home Sweet Home Alone, slapstick, diegetic reboot, Christmas VacationComment

Christmas: 8-Bit Christmas (2021)

Michael Dowse’s Christmas comedy about the quest for an NES plays like A Christmas Story set in the 1980s.

Review: Untold: Crime & Penalties (2021)

The Way Brothers’ raucous film about the Danbury Trashers plays like a sequel to their previous sports documentary, The Battered Bastards of Baseball.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromNovember 18, 2021Untold, Crime & Penalties, Maclain Way, Chapman Way, documentaryComment

Review: A Glitch in the Matrix (2021)

Rodney Ascher’s film on the simulation hypothesis plays more like a religious testament than a documentary primer.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromNovember 8, 2021A Glitch in the Matrix, Rodney Ascher, simulation hypothesis, Philip K. DickComment

Halloween Horror: The Old Ways (2020)

Depending on your affection for and familiarity with exorcism films, Christopher Alender’s The Old Ways may seem admirably novel or hopelessly rote.