Blog — 3 Brothers Film

Review: Wicked (2024)

Wicked is doomed by the decision to inflate Act 1 into an entire 160-minute film.

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 SutherlandComment

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: Conclave (2024)

Edward Berger’s Conclave is a lot of fun. Just don’t confuse it for more than a potboiler.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAren BergstromNovember 28, 2024Conclave, Edward Berger, Peter Straughan, Robert Harris, Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Sergio Castellitto, Isabella Rossellini, Lucian Msamati, Carlos Diehz, Brian F. O'ByrneComment

Review: Take Out (2004)

Take Out, Sean Baker’s debut feature co-directed by Shih-Ching Tso, reveals a strong authorial voice and anticipates the focus of many of Baker’s later features.

Reviews, Overlooked and Under-AppreciatedAnders BergstromNovember 27, 2024Sean Baker, Drama, indie, cinema verite, Shih-Ching TsoComment

Review: Gladiator II (2024)

Yet another meta-legacy sequel, Gladiator II also delivers some of the most rousing action spectacle of recent years.

Reel Asian 2024 Quick Hits: Borrowed Time and Lucky Star

Short reviews for the 2024 Toronto Reel Asian Toronto International Film Festival.

Reviews, The Festival CircuitAren BergstromNovember 21, 2024Borrowed Time, Choy Ji, Wang Yin, Lin Dongping, Eddy Au-Yeung, Pan Jie, Tai Bo, Sunny Sun, Lucky Star, Gillian McKercher, Terry Chen, Olivia Cheng, Conni Miu, Summer Ly, Andrew Phung, John Dylan Louie

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

Review: The Illustrated Man (1969)

Jack Smight’s 1969 adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s short story collection is not an ideal adaptation, but does capture some of surreal power of Bradbury’s work.

Aren's Reviews, Flash Back, ReviewsAren BergstromNovember 7, 2024Jack Smight, Howard B. Kreitsek, Ray Bradbury, Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Robert DrivasComment

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: House on Haunted Hill (1959)

William Castle’s carnivalesque fright house movie is a very fun time.

Halloween Horror, Flash Back, ReviewsAnton BergstromOctober 31, 2024House on Haunted Hill, Vincent Price, William Castle, Robb White, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long, Alan Marshal, Carolyn Craig, Elisha Cook, Julie Mitchum, horror, haunted house, carnival, Ennis HouseComment

Halloween Horror: The Mist (2007)

Frank Darabont’s Stephen King horror adaptation plays like a dry run for The Walking Dead.

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

Halloween Horror: The Village (2004)

Shyamalan’s 2004 film has its merits, but revisiting it reveals the muddled philosophy that drives it and robs it of many key thrills.

Halloween Horror, Reviews, Flash BackAnders BergstromOctober 18, 2024M. Night Shyamalan, The Village, Halloween Horror, thriller, allegory, twist ending, Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Adrian Brody, William HurtComment

Halloween Horror: The Faculty

The Faculty is Invasion of the Body Snatchers for the MTV generation.

Review: Megalopolis (2024)

Francis Ford Coppola's strange political fable is an absurd, admirable moonshot of a film.

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

TIFF24: Oh, Canada

Paul Schrader's Oh, Canada is for true Schrader heads only.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Festival CircuitAren BergstromSeptember 24, 2024Oh Canada, Paul Schrader, Foregone, Russell Banks, Richard Gere, Jacob Elordi, Uma Thurman, Victoria Hill, Michael Imperioli, Penelope Mitchell, Kristine Froseth, Zach ShafferComment

TIFF24: The Piano Lesson

Malcolm Washington's The Piano Lesson relies on the strength of its source material to compensate for some of its ambitious, if uneven, filmmaking choices.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Festival CircuitAren BergstromSeptember 23, 2024Malcolm Washington, Virgil Williams, August Wilson, John David Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Ray Fisher, Michael Potts, Erykah Badu, Skylar Aleece Smith, Danielle Deadwyler, Corey Hawkins, The Piano Lesson, TIFFComment

TIFF24: By the Stream

Hong Sang-soo's latest minimalist work is a charming, emotional work that investigates art and romance.

Aren's Reviews, Reviews, The Festival CircuitAren BergstromSeptember 19, 2024By the Stream, Hong Sang-soo, Kim Min-hee, Kwon Hae-hyo, Cho Yun-hee, Ha Seong-gukComment