Blog — 3 Brothers Film

Review: Defending Your Life (1991)

Albert Brooks’s film is an amusing, if ultimately unsatisfying, comedy about what happens after death.

Reviews, Flash BackAnders BergstromApril 24, 2024Defending Your Life, Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn, comedy, afterlife, satire, 1990s, romantic comedyComment

Review: Late Night with the Devil (2023)

Colin and Cameron Cairnes’ Late Night with the Devil has a brilliant stylistic conceit that makes it a compelling take on the found-footage horror subgenre.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromApril 12, 2024Late Night with the Devil, Colin Cairnes, Cameron Cairnes, Colin and Cameron Cairnes, David Dastmalchian, Laura Gordon, Ian Bliss, Fayssal Bazzi, Ingrid Torelli, Rhys Auteri, Georgina Haig, Josh Quong TartComment

Review: Joseph: King of Dreams (2000)

Joseph: King of Dreams should enjoy heavy rotation among families who want to show Bible movies to their children.

Review: The Departed (2006)

The narrative surrounding its Oscar win and its reputation as a crime flick have come to mask what a remarkable work The Departed is.

Aren's Reviews, Flash Back, ReviewsAren BergstromApril 5, 2024The Departed, Martin Scorsese, William Monahan, Infernal Affairs, Alan Mak, Felix Chong, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga, Alec BaldwinComment

Review: Pathfinder (1987)

Retelling a Sami legend, Nils Gaup’s Pathfinder is both an act of cultural preservation and a thrilling action-adventure.

Remembering the Film Scholar David Bordwell (1947-2024)

Anton and Anders discuss the ideas and impact of the film scholar David Bordwell, who recently passed away.

FeaturesAnton BergstromMarch 22, 2024David Bordwell, Remembering David Bordwell, film scholarship, Christopher Nolan, art cinema, network narrative, continuity editing, intensified continuityComment

Review: Out of Africa (1985)

Sydney Pollack’s Best Picture winner feels like a film of a different age, and is all the better for it.

Aren's Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, ReviewsAren BergstromMarch 18, 2024Out of Africa, Sydney Pollack, Kurt Luedtke, Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen, Judith Thurman, Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen, Shane RimmerComment

The Importance of Friendship and Marriage in the John Adams (2008) Miniseries

John Adams is smart about politics and history but also has a careful eye for friendship and marriage.

Review: Seagrass (2023)

Seagrass is ultimately compelling because there are enough moments of artistic expression and perceptive character building to balance the more didactic storytelling.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromMarch 4, 2024Seagrass, Canadian film, Meredith Hama-Brown, Ally Maki, Luke Roberts, Nyha Huang Breitkreuz, Remy Marthaller, Sarah Gadon, Chris PangComment

Review: Men in Black (1997)

Our world is too fragmented and our cinema too convoluted to allow for movies as simply, competently fun as Men in Black.

Aren's Reviews, Flash Back, ReviewsAren BergstromFebruary 27, 2024Men in Black, Barry Sonnenfeld, Ed Solomon, Lowell Cunningham, Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D'Onofrio, Rip Torn, Tony Shalhoub, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Mike NussbaumComment

Review: Perfect Days (2023)

Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days is a beautiful corrective to the busyness of everyday life.

Aren's Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, ReviewsAren BergstromFebruary 21, 2024Perfect Days, Wim Wenders, Tokyo, Ozu, Takuma Takasaki, Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano, Aoi YamadaComment

Review: Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011)

The 2011 movie version of Mr. Popper’s Penguins shows little interest in the classic children’s book, let alone affection for it.

Review: Night Nurse (1931)

Night Nurse starring Barbara Stanwyck is a reminder of the salacious storytelling of pre-Code Hollywood.

Aren's Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, ReviewsAren BergstromFebruary 13, 2024Night Nurse, William A. Wellman, Oliver H.P. Garrett, Charles Kenyon, Dora Macy, Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell, Clark Gable, pre-CodeComment

Rome (2005) Should Be In the Pantheon of Great TV Shows

Season 1 demonstrates that Rome deserves to be ranked among the highest achievements of the Golden Age of Television.

Review: American Fiction (2023)

Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction strikes a delicate balance between hilarious satire and understated family drama.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromFebruary 7, 2024American Fiction, Cord Jefferson, Erasure, Percival Everett, Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Adam Brody, Issa Rae, Sterling K. BrownComment

Roundtable: Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

The Brothers dig into Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, interrogating its structure, length, and point of view.

RoundtablesAnton BergstromFebruary 2, 2024Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, John Lithgow, Brendan Fraser, Cara Jade Myers, JaNae Collins, Jillian Dion, Eric Roth, David Grann, Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower MoonComment

Review: Shipwrecked (1990)

Shipwrecked is a competent boys’ own adventure, played without irony, revisionism, or computer-generated fakeness.

Review: Seven Veils (2023)

Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils is a vital, messy piece of self-expression from the Canadian auteur.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromJanuary 29, 2024Seven Veils, Salome, Atom Egoyan, Amanda Seyfried, Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Mark O'Brien, Vinessa Antoine, TIFFComment

Review: Maestro (2023)

Contradiction is the governing thematic and formal design for Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic.

Reviews, The Current: At HomeAnton BergstromJanuary 24, 2024Maestro, Leonard Bernstein, biopic, classical music, conductor, sexuality, marriage, Bradley Cooper, Josh Singer, Carey Mulligan, composerComment

Review: Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (2023)

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget is decent entertainment, but a significant step down from the original film.