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‘Monsters and Men’ review: Examining the aftermath of a police shooting

December 12, 2018 at 3:21 a.m.

The triptych of stories that unspool in “Monsters and Men,” a somber and strikingly assured debut feature written and directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green, are set in motion by an...

How ‘The Dark Knight’ changed Hollywood, and inspired a legion of inferior imitators

December 12, 2018 at 7:39 p.m.

The first time we see Batman in “The Dark Knight,” the second and greatest chapter of Christopher Nolan’s film trilogy, he isn’t really Batman. He’s an impostor, one of several...

Constance Wu in a scene from the film "Crazy Rich Asians."

‘Crazy Rich Asians’ review: A flawed but vital milestone, film pays exuberant tribute to Singapore’s 1 percent

August 13, 2018 at 9:38 a.m.

Before it whisks you off on the sunniest, most extravagant Singaporean holiday imaginable, “Crazy Rich Asians” begins on a curiously dark and stormy night. When Eleanor Young (a mesmerizing Michelle...

In 1980, these 19-year-olds realized they are identical triplets. The documentary "Three Identical Strangers" explores the reasons the boys were separated at birth.

‘Three Identical Strangers’ review: A riveting account of identical triplets separated at birth

December 12, 2018 at 9:35 p.m.

The intensely compelling documentary “Three Identical Strangers” begins by reconstructing a fateful autumn day in 1980, when Robert Shafran, a 19-year-old freshman at Sullivan County College in upstate New York,...

‘Beast’ review: A Jersey girl’s serial-killer dilemma — but not that Jersey, the other one

December 14, 2018 at 8:11 a.m.

The first 26 years of life haven't gone so swimmingly for Moll Huntford (Jessie Buckley), a ginger-haired resident of the British island of Jersey, and the 27th doesn't look much...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

‘Pope Francis: A Man of His Word’ review: Wim Wenders’ documentary lets its subject ask the tough questions

December 17, 2018 at 4:17 p.m.

The German director Wim Wenders has recently devoted himself to profiling artists — the late German dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch in "Pina" (2011), the Brazilian war photographer Sebastiao Salgado...

‘The Green Fog’ review: A scrambled history of San Francisco and an homage to ‘Vertigo’

May 1, 2018 at 4:53 p.m.

I have a friend who, in a rush to return a DVD of "Vertigo" she had borrowed, watched it distractedly on her laptop, fast-forwarding through most of the driving scenes....

In May 1968, the Cannes Film Festival ground to a halt. Fifty years later, it’s still sparking controversy

December 14, 2018 at 1:09 p.m.

In the newly released comedy "Godard Mon Amour," Michel Hazanavicius' playful flashback to France in the fateful year of 1968, a young Jean-Luc Godard (played by Louis Garrel) marches with...

‘Outside In’ review: Ex-con falls in love with his careworn advocate Edie Falco

December 14, 2018 at 10:09 a.m.

One of the bittersweet recurring images we see in "Outside In," Lynn Shelton's sharp and stirring new drama, is of a man riding his bicycle. Chris (Jay Duplass), a scruffily...

‘Outside In’ review: Ex-con falls in love with his careworn advocate Edie Falco

December 14, 2018 at 9:59 a.m.

One of the bittersweet recurring images we see in "Outside In," Lynn Shelton's sharp and stirring new drama, is of a man riding his bicycle. Chris (Jay Duplass), a scruffily...

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