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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

Halloween Horror: Longlegs (2024)

Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs is an inconsistent mishmash of The Silence of the Lambs and Cure.

Aren's Reviews, Halloween Horror, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromOctober 31, 2024Osgood Perkins, Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage, Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt, Michelle Choi-Lee, Dakota Daulby, Kiernan Shipka, Longlegs, Halloween Horror, horrorComment

Halloween Horror: The Platform 2 (2024)

This sequel to the surprise Netflix horror hit, The Platform, loses the elegance of its predecessor.

Halloween Horror, Aren's Reviews, The Current: At Home, ReviewsAren BergstromOctober 21, 2024The Platform, The Platform 2, Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, David Desola, Pedro Rivero, Egoitz Moreno, Milena Smit, Hovik Keuchkerian, Natalia Tena, Oscar Jaenada, Antonia San JuanComment

Review: The Beekeeper (2024)

David Ayers' The Beekeeper is one of the most gloriously dumb movies of recent years.

Aren's Reviews, The Current: At Home, ReviewsAren BergstromOctober 9, 2024The Beekeeper, David Ayer, Kurt Wimmer, Jason Statham, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Josh Hutcherson, Bobby Naderi, Minnie Driver, David Witts, Michael Epp, Taylor James, Jemma Redgrave, Phylicia RashadComment

Review: Rebel Ridge (2024)

Jeremy Saulnier's Rebel Ridge is a return to form and a tense action thriller about crooked cops.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromSeptember 12, 2024Rebel Ridge, Jeremy Saulnier, Aaron Pierre, Don Johnson, AnnaSophia Robb, David Denman, Emory Cohen, Steve Zsiss, Zsane Jhe, Dana Lee, James CromwellComment

Review: Unfrosted (2024)

Jerry Seinfeld's Pop-Tarts farce is a misfire on almost every level.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromAugust 28, 2024Jerry Seinfeld, Pop-Tarts, Unfrosted, Spike Feresten, Andy Robin, Barry Marder, Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan, Max Greenfield, Hugh Grant, Amy SchumerComment

Review: Road House (2024)

The best part of the Road House remake is Jake Gyllenhaal, who makes his bouncer-warrior another one of his dark loner characters.

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