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‘The Price of Everything’ review: Documentary explores the often absurd process of valuing art and artists

December 12, 2018 at 10:19 a.m.

Every so often, when you hear that a painting by Picasso just sold at auction for a record $179 million, or that a Pollock or a Basquiat or a Jeff...

Kathryn Hahn, left, and Paul Giamatti play a couple trying to conceive a child in "Private Life."

‘Private Life’ review: Kathryn Hahn, Paul Giamatti star in tale of what to expect when you’re not expecting

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

Rachel (Kathryn Hahn) and Richard (Paul Giamatti), the beleaguered bohemian-geek couple at the center of "Private Life," have been trying, through fertility treatments, to get pregnant for years. The movie,...

Ben Mendelsohn, left, and Edie Falco in a scene from "The Land of Steady Habits."

Toronto film review: ‘The Land of Steady Habits’

December 12, 2018 at 4:43 p.m.

At its best, the land of writer-director Nicole Holofcener is a sly and invigorating place -- wittier than life, full of human surprise, grounded in the ways that happiness and...

‘Yellow Submarine’ review: A dazzling revival everyone should see (especially the new leaders of Pixar)

December 12, 2018 at 9:23 p.m.

Just about every animated classic, from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" to "Spirited Away," from "Toy Story" to "Persepolis," from "Fritz the Cat" to "Fantastic Mr. Fox," hits a...

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>

‘Super Troopers 2’ review: Cheesy ’80s vibe falls woefully flat

December 14, 2018 at 12:04 p.m.

"Super Troopers 2" is an aggressively lame and slobby comedy full of cardboard characters and in-your-face naughty jokes that feel about as dangerous as old vaudeville routines. Yet if you...

‘In the Intense Now’ review: Political cataclysms of ’68 made poetic

May 2, 2018 at 8:02 p.m.

Almost every contemporary movie, from Hollywood superhero blockbusters to the most arduous Romanian art film, is shot in some variation of "widescreen." So it was a shock to sit down...

’24 Frames’ review: Iranian director’s meditation on death

December 14, 2018 at 7:29 p.m.

What's the most romantic song ever written? If I told you it was "Love Never Dies," by Andrew Lloyd Webber (the title number from his unsuccessful 2010 musical), you'd probably...

‘Gilbert’ review: A portrait of the comedian he is today

December 17, 2018 at 3:28 p.m.

The voice! That high-pitched, kvetchy, caterwauling rasp — the sound of an angry Jewish uncle from 1940 shouting in your face. The sour squint of disapproval. The teeth so bulgy...

‘Jigsaw’ review: Torture porn should’ve been called ‘Saw: Back in Business’

December 18, 2018 at 12:50 a.m.

"How are you still alive?" That's a dirty cop, with a laser slicer locked around his neck, shouting at Jigsaw, née John Kramer (Tobin Bell), the serial killer who organizes...

‘Tyler Perry’s Boo 2! A Madea Halloween’ review: Horror sequel runs on fumes

June 1, 2018 at 8:21 p.m.

In his career as a writer, director, actor, mogul, and one-man filmmaking factory, Tyler Perry has given us shamelessly over-the-top demon-yuppie melodrama; exuberantly dirty-minded dress-up burlesque; squeaky-clean family soap opera;...

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