Blog — 3 Brothers Film

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

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

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.

Review: The Mission (1999)

There’s no better way to describe The Mission than as an exceptional jazz riff.

Flash Back, Reviews, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromNovember 9, 2017Johnnie To, Yau Nai-hoi, Milkyway Creative Team, Anthony Wong, Francis Ng, Jackie Liu, Roy Cheung, Lam Suet, Simon Yam Comment

Halloween Horror: Psycho II (1983)

As many films try to do but fail, it shows the man in the monster.

Flash Back, Reviews, Aren's Reviews, Halloween Horror IIAren BergstromOctober 31, 2017Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Meg Tilly, Robert Loggia, Dennis Franz, Hugh Gillin, Tom Holland, Richard Franklin Comment

Halloween Horror: Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

This third Halloween film is worth a look for its horror thrills and critique of holiday consumerism.

Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, Halloween Horror IIAnders BergstromOctober 31, 2017Tommy Lee Wallace, Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan O'Herlihy Comment

Halloween Horror: Victor Frankenstein (2015)

A buddy movie, not a monster movie.

Halloween Horror: The Haunting (1963)

Perhaps the pre-eminent haunted house movie of all-time.

Flash Back, Reviews, Halloween Horror IIAnders BergstromOctober 27, 2017Claire Bloom, Halloween Horror, haunted house, horror, Julie Harris, Lois Maxwell, Richard Johnson, Robert Wise, Russ Tamblyn, Shirley Jackson, The HauntingComment

Halloween Horror: Alien: Covenant (2017)

A thematically satisfying new chapter of Ridley Scott’s Alien series.

Reviews, Halloween Horror II, The Current: At HomeAnders BergstromOctober 23, 2017Alien, Alien: Covenant, Billy Crudup, cosmic horror, Halloween Horror, horror, Katherine Waterston, Michael Fassbender, Ridley Scott, science fiction, science fiction horror

Halloween Horror: Blair Witch (2016)

An assaultive exercise in found-footage terror.

Reviews, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, Aren's Reviews, Halloween Horror IIAren BergstromOctober 13, 2017Adam Wingard, Blair Witch, Brandon Scott, Callie Hernandez, Corbin Reid, Halloween, Halloween Horror, James Allen McCune, Simon Barrett, Valerie Curry, Wes RobinsonComment

Review: mother! (2017)

A staggeringly-coherent allegory with unrelenting emotional intensity.

Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromOctober 12, 2017Brian Gleeson, Darren Aronofsky, Domhnall Gleeson, Ed Harris, Javier Bardem, Jennifer Lawrence, Jovan Adepu, Kristen Wiig, Laurence Leboeuf, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mother, Stephen McHattieComment