Blog — 3 Brothers Film

Review: Babylon (2022)

Damien Chazelle’s epic tragicomedy, Babylon, is yet another investigation of the personal cost of art and a wildly ambitious, if uneven, ode to silent cinema.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromJanuary 26, 2023Damien Chazelle, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva, Jean Smart, Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li, Babylon, Hollywood, Los Angeles, silent filmComment

Review: Broker (2022)

Hirokazu Kore-eda transforms what sounds like a dour thriller into a heartfelt examination of forgiveness and what constitutes a family.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromJanuary 20, 2023Broker, South Korea, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Song Kang-ho, Gang Dong-won, Bae Doona, Lee Ji-eun, Lee Joo-young, Im Seung-sooComment

Review: Aftersun (2022)

Charlotte Wells’ debut feature, Aftersun, is a cinematic act of recollection and a tribute to a father she never properly understood.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromDecember 21, 2022Aftersun, Charlotte Wells, Paul Mescal, Frankie CorioComment

Review: EO (2022)

Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO, a remake-of-sorts of Robert Bresson’s Au Hasard Balthazar, creates a portrait of animal personhood in its tale of a donkey passed between owners in modern Poland.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromDecember 20, 2022EO, Poland, Au Hasard Balthazar, Robert Bresson, Jerzy Skolimowski, Ewa Piaskowska, Sandra Drzymalska, Lorenzo Zurzolo, Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Isabelle HuppertComment

Review: Armageddon Time (2022)

James Gray’s Armageddon Time captures the pain and regret of nostalgia as well as its longing and warmth.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromNovember 14, 2022Armageddon Time, James Gray, Banks Repeta, Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, Jaylin Webb, Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Sell, Tovah Reldshuh, Andrew PolkComment

Halloween Horror: Pearl (2022)

Ti West’s Pearl is a terrific showcase for Mia Goth, as well as clever franchise extension to X from earlier this year.

Aren's Reviews, Halloween Horror, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromOctober 6, 2022Pearl, X, Ti West, Mia Goth, David Corenswet, Tandi Wright, Matthew Sunderland, Emma Jenkins-Purro, Alistair SewellComment

Halloween Horror: Barbarian (2022)

Zach Cregger’s trendy new horror movie plays with our expectations of horror in funny, weird, truly bizarre ways.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, Halloween HorrorAren BergstromSeptember 30, 2022Halloween Horror, Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgard, Justin Long, Richard Brake, Barbarian, Zach CreggerComment

Review: Beast (2022)

Baltasar Kormákur’s Beast is effective late summer B-movie entertainment with a great Idris Elba at its centre.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromSeptember 1, 2022Beast, Baltasar Kormákur, Ryan Engle, Jaime Primak Sullivan, Idris Elba, Iyana Halley, Leah Sava Jeffries, Sharlto CopleyComment

Review: Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)

Halina Reijn’s horror comedy/satire is as vapid and repetitive as the social media feeds that inspired it.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromAugust 22, 2022Bodies Bodies Bodies, A24, Sarah DeLappe, Kristen Roupenian, Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Myha'la Herrold, Chase Sui Wonders, Rachel Sennott, Lee Pace, Pete DavidsonComment

Review: Bullet Train (2022)

Brad Pitt showcases his star power in this B-grade action comedy.

Aren's Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, ReviewsAren BergstromAugust 12, 2022Bullet Train, David Leitch, Zak Olkewicz, Kotaro Isaka, Brad Pitt, Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Andrew Koji, Hiroyuki Sanada, Michael Shannon, Benito A. Martínez Ocasio, Sandra BullockComment

Review: Fire of Love (2022)

Sara Dosa’s documentary on Katia and Maurice Krafft takes advantage of their remarkable footage to craft a tragic love story.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromAugust 4, 2022Fire of Love, Sara Dosa, Shane Boris, Erin Casper, Jocelyn Chaput, Miranda July, Maurice Krafft, Katia KrafftComment

Review: The Black Phone (2021)

Scott Derrickson’s horror film contemplates tangible evil and how divine grace can overcome it.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromJuly 8, 2022The Black Phone, Scott Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill, Joe Hill, Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Davies, James RansoneComment

Review: Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

Tom Cruise keeps the old-school Hollywood action blockbuster alive with his aerial theatrics in Top Gun: Maverick.

Review: Crimes of the Future (2022)

After eight years, David Cronenberg returns with an entertaining, haunting, deeply-weird picture that casts an entrancing spell with its provocative ideas and imagery.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromMay 31, 2022Crimes of the Future, David Cronenberg, Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, Scott Speedman, Don McKellar, Welket Bungué, Lihi Kornowski, Tanaya Beatty, Nadia LitzComment

Review: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)

Weighed down by its deliberately conventional plotting, this Nicolas Cage meta movie still amuses, thanks largely to Cage and Pedro Pascal’s easygoing chemistry.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromMay 18, 2022The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Tom Gormican, Kevin Etten, Nicolas Cage, Pedro Pascal, Sharon Horgan, Tiffany Haddish, Ike Barinholtz, Alessandra Mastronardi, Jacob Scipio, Neil Patrick HarrisComment

Review: The Northman (2022)

Robert Eggers’ The Northman is a violent Viking epic that offers a portrait of the past as an alien experience yet recognizably human.

Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAnders BergstromMay 11, 2022The Northman, historical epic, drama, violence, Alexander Skarsgard, Anya Taylor-JoyComment

Review: The Bad Guys (2022)

This adaptation of the popular graphic novel series for kids is somewhat charming, but still falls prey to many of today’s worst excesses in contemporary children’s animated fare.