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Anders' Top 10 Films of 2017

Phantom Thread, Lady Bird, and Get Out all feature in Anders' top films of 2017.

FeaturesAnders BergstromFebruary 2, 2018Top 10, Top 10 Films of 2017, Phantom Thread, Blade Runner 2049, Dunkirk, Lady Bird, The Lost City of Z, Mudbound, Good Time, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Mother, Get OutComment

Review: The Flowers of St. Francis (1950)

An appropriate wedding of subject matter and style from Roberto Rossellini.

Reviews, Flash Back, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromFebruary 1, 2018Brother Nazario Gerardi, Brother Severino Pisacane, Esposito Bonaventura, Aldo Fabrizi, Arabella Lemaitre, Brother Nazareno, Brother Raffaele, Brother Robert Sorrentino, Roberto Rossellini, Federico Fellini, The Flowers of St. FrancisComment

Review: Adam's Rib (1949)

Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy remain delightful, but whatever cultural power Adam's Rib once held has been obliterated with time.

Flash Back, Reviews, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromJanuary 26, 2018Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell, David Wayne, Jean Hagen, George Cukor, Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin, Adam's RibComment

Roundtable: Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) - Episode III

The Brothers close out their discussion of The Last Jedi, focusing on the film's politics, visual invention, continuity with The Force Awakens and the Prequel Trilogy.

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, Reviews, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromJanuary 18, 2018Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville, Vicky Krieps, Phantom Thread, Paul Thomas AndersonComment

Aren's Top 10 Films of 2017

From Dunkirk to Blade Runner 2049 and The Lost City of Z, Aren offers up his top films of 2017.

Roundtable: Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) - Episode II

The Brothers continue their discussion of The Last Jedi, focusing on its premise, what it does with the Force, the new characters, and the big death.

Top 10 TV Shows of 2017

From Twin Peaks to BoJack Horseman to American Gods, Aren lists the best television shows of 2017.

TV CornerAren BergstromJanuary 5, 2018Twin Peaks, Halt and Catch Fire, Better Call Saul, BoJack Horseman, The Leftovers, Mindhunter, Mr. Robot, Game of Thrones, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, American GodsComment

Roundtable: Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) - Episode I

The Brothers begin their discussion of the divisive new film in the Star Wars series, The Last Jedi, focusing on shattered expectations, connections to the Original and Prequel Trilogies, and the film's controversial choices.

3 Brothers' Essential Films of 2017

The Brothers share their picks for the essential films of 2017, from prestige cinema to the arthouse, multiplex fare and documentaries.

FeaturesAnders BergstromDecember 22, 2017Comment

Thursday Rethink: The Shape of Water Fails as a Fairy Tale

Guillermo del Toro's romantic fairy tale has an issues with character motivation, sexuality, and political messaging.

Features, Thursday RethinkAren BergstromDecember 21, 2017Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro, Vanessa Taylor, Thursday Rethink Comment

Christmas: The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

The Shop Around the Corner is an exceptional romantic comedy that captures the intellectual and emotional fencing match that is early romance.

Christmas, Reviews, Flash Back, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromDecember 19, 2017Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut, Sara Haden, Felix Bressart, William Tracy, Ernst Lubitsch, Samson Raphaelson, Ben Hecht, Parfumerie, The Shop Around the Corner, Christmas Comment

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: 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 Theatres, Aren's ReviewsAren 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: Marjorie Prime (2017)

Marjorie Prime is a modest science fiction film that prompts big questions about identity and memory.

ReviewsAnders BergstromDecember 7, 2017Marjorie Prime, Michael Almereyda, Lois Smith, Jon Hamm, Geena Davis, Tim Robbins, science fiction, memory, artificial intelligenceComment

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.

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: Atomic Blonde (2017)

Atomic Blonde is an obvious, cliché and, most sadly, boring spy action film cobbled together from secondhand tropes and pop culture references.

ReviewsAnders BergstromDecember 1, 2017Atomic Blonde, Charlize Theron, action film, Cold War, James McAvoyComment

Review: Justice League (2017)

Justice League is merely good, while aspects of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and the presence of both Whedon and Snyder suggest that it could’ve been great.

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.