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Review: K-Pop Demon Hunters (2025)

Surprisingly, K-Pop Demon Hunters tells a well-developed story with clearly drawn characters.

Review: Warfare (2025)

Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland’s Warfare is impressively intense, but never thematically coalesces in the moment.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromNovember 6, 2025Warfare, Ray Mendoza, Alex Garland, D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Kit Connot, Finn Bennett, Joseph Quinn, Charles MeltonComment

Halloween Horror: Bring Her Back (2025)

Danny and Michael Philippou’s follow-up to Talk to Me is a more gruelling, complete film than its predecessor.

Aren's Reviews, Halloween Horror, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromOctober 16, 2025Bring Her Back, Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou, Bill Hinzman, Billy Barret, Sora Wong, Jonah Wren Phillips, Sally HawkinsComment

Review: Suspended Time (2024)

Olivier Assayas’s Suspended Time is a rarity: a thoughtful look back at the COVID-19 pandemic.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromSeptember 17, 2025Suspended Time, Olivier Assayas, Vincent Macaigne, Micha Lescot, Nora Hamzawi, Nine d'UrsoComment

Review: Final Destination Bloodlines (2025)

The latest film in the Final Destination series is too in on the joke.

Review: Shifty: Living in Britain at the End of the Twentieth Century (2025)

Adam Curtis crafts a tremendous, hilarious, depressing examination of Britain’s decline.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromJuly 24, 2025Adam Curtis, ShiftyComment

Review: The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (2024)

This Looney Tunes movie fleetingly captures the magic of the original shorts.

Review: Trainwreck: Mayor of Mayhem (2025)

Mayor of Mayhem is an embarrassingly lazy recounting of the Rob Ford saga.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromJune 30, 2025Netflix, Trainwreck: Mayor of Mayhem, Shianne Brown, Rob Ford, TorontoComment

Review: Drop (2025)

Christopher Landon’s Drop is entertaining, outlandish B-movie fun.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromJune 12, 2025Christopher Landon, Jillian Jacobs, Chris Roach, Meghann Fahy, Brandon Sklenar, Violett Beane, Jacob Robinson, Reed Diamond, Gabrielle Ryan, Jeffery Self, Ed Weeks, DropComment

Review: Fear Street: Prom Queen (2025)

Fear Street: Prom Queen fails to be anything more than vague nostalgia bait.

Review: Black Bag (2025)

Steven Soderbergh’s spy film plays as a blend between a whodunnit, a John le Carré thriller, and a marriage drama.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromJune 2, 2025Black Bag, Steven Soderbergh, David Koepp, Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Marisa Abela, Tom Burke, Naomie Harris, Rege-Jean Page, Pierce BrosnanComment

Review: Eephus (2024)

Carson Lund’s Eephus is an elegy for baseball and the impermanence of life.

Review: Venom: The Last Dance (2024)

The final film in the Tom Hardy Venom trilogy, The Last Dance lacks the arch tone that made the predecessors so fun.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromMarch 17, 2025Venom, Venom: The Last Dance, Kelly Marcel, Tom Hardy, Mavel, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Juno Temple, Rhys Ifans, Stephen Graham, Peggy Lu, Alanna UbachComment

Review: A Real Pain (2024)

Jesse Eisenberg’s nuanced buddy-travelogue dramedy is carried by Kieran Culkin’s great performance.

Review: Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver (2024)

Better than Part One, but Snyder’s universe still remains intriguing in parts yet never fully convincing.

Review: Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024)

The return of Wallace and Gromit manages to stay true to the charm that makes the series so beloved, while still offering a gentle critique of our technophilic society.

The Current: At Home, ReviewsAnders BergstromJanuary 16, 2025Wallace & Gromit, Nick Park, claymation, Aardman, stop-motion animation, family adventure, technologyComment

Christmas: Carry-On (2024)

Jaume Collet-Serra’s new Netflix thriller is a riff on Die Hard 2 and a genuinely watchable action thriller in a lacklustre streaming environment.

Review: Juror #2 (2024)

Clint Eastwood’s courtroom drama is a classical morality play in the vein of 12 Angry Men or Anatomy of a Murder.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromDecember 19, 2024Juror #2, Clint Eastwood, Juror No. 2, Jonathan Abrams, Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, J. K. Simmons, Chris Messina, Zoey Deutch, Cedric Yarbrough, Kiefer Sutherland Comments

Review: Beatles '64 (2024)

David Tedeschi’s new Beatles documentary fails to find anything new to say about the 20th century’s most popular band.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromDecember 12, 2024The Beatles, Beatles '64, David Tedeschi, documentaryComment

Review: Love Lies Bleeding (2024)

Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian are great in Rose Glass’s erotic neo-noir, but the grab bag of genre elements leaves something to be desired.

Aren's Reviews, The Current: At Home, ReviewsAren BergstromNovember 14, 2024Love Lies Bleeding, Rose Glass, Weronika Tofilska, Kristen Stewart, Katy O'Brian, Jena Malone, Anna Baryshnikov, Dave Franco, Ed HarrisComment