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The visually imaginative animation of the Brazilian film "Tito and the Birds" speaks to today.

‘Tito and the Birds’ review: Brazilian kids band together to fight panic and an epidemic

February 8, 2019 at 2:00 p.m.

"Tito and the Birds" is a small marvel. Only 73 minutes long, it marries an adventurous visual imagination with a darkly provocative political parable. Its heroes may be children, but...

‘People’s Republic of Desire’ review: In China, streaming entertainment and revenue is a big business

December 11, 2018 at 5:03 p.m.

Influential Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping may or may not have said, "to get rich is glorious," but regardless, he couldn't have imagined some of the ways his country's citizens would...

‘Science Fair’ review: These high school kids can restore your faith in the future of humanity

December 12, 2018 at 3:18 a.m.

Even in a year of extraordinary documentaries like "RBG," "Won't You Be My Neighbor" and "Three Identical Strangers," "Science Fair" is something special. Winner of audience awards at both Sundance...

Review: Netflix’s ‘The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society’ is a pleasant throwback romance with a sparkling Lily James

December 12, 2018 at 6:48 p.m.

"The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" is an old-school, old-fashioned entertainment, a romantic drama bursting with scenic vistas and earnest charm that contains just enough mystery to keep...

‘Night Comes on’ review: Revenge and sisterhood at heart of impressive directing debut

December 12, 2018 at 6:36 p.m.

Like its determined heroine, "Night Comes On" burns with a smoldering fire, a heat that is no less intense, no less effective, for remaining largely beneath the surface. The passionate...

‘Nico, 1988’ review: A look at the singer’s harrowing final year

December 12, 2018 at 6:36 p.m.

If you know the name Nico at all, it's from a brief moment in time in the 1960s when she collaborated with Lou Reed on the iconic "The Velvet Underground...

British designer Vivienne Westwood is shown in Paris in 2007 from the documentary "Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist." (Pierre Verdy / AFP/ Getty Images) ** OUTS - ELSENT, FPG, TCN - OUTS **

‘Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist’ review: Fashion designer ‘a force to be reckoned with’

December 12, 2018 at 9:10 p.m.

You might think that having a documentary film made about your life was a good thing, that having awed folks calling you a cultural avatar and far-seeing visionary was worth...

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>

In 1968, moviegoers had a lot more choices before blockbuster fever took over

December 14, 2018 at 1:10 p.m.

Remember the fable about frogs in a pot of water, oblivious to the temperature slowly changing from tepid to boiling until it's too late? The same thing is true for...

‘1945’ review: Jews return home to Hungary after war, and villagers must reconcile the past

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

The premise is simple but compelling: Two strangers get off a train in a small town and nothing is ever the same again. It could be the premise for a...

‘In the Fade’ review: An unthinkable act and then a harrowing performance from Diane Kruger

December 15, 2018 at 1:45 a.m.

"In the Fade" does not tell a happy story, not even close. But it is a powerful film, one of the nine shortlisted for the foreign-language Oscar, and it is...

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