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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>

‘Ghostbusters’ review: Feig conjures spirited reboot with Melissa McCarthy, et al

April 6, 2019 at 12:34 a.m.

The easy, electric chemistry of the four leads in Paul Feig's "Ghostbusters" acts like a firewall against the supernatural and the adolescent, alike, in this spirited reboot of the 1984...

‘The Legend of Tarzan’ review: Clunker of the jungle stars Alexander Skarsgard, Samuel L. Jackson

June 10, 2018 at 10:48 a.m.

Tarzan has been dusted off, his abs polished and his vocabulary spruced up in David Yates' handsome but altogether pointless "The Legend of Tarzan," a chest-thumping resurrection of the Ape...

Six miles beneath the Pacific Ocean surface, a team of oceanographers and experts discover an entire hidden ecosystem laden with species "completely unknown to science." But Meg comes calling, attacking the submersible piloted by the ex-wife (Jessica McNamee) of rescue diver Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham).
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Kristen Stewart’s ‘Personal Shopper’ met with boos, bravas in Cannes

June 10, 2018 at 4:41 p.m.

In a pair of films at the Cannes Film Festival, Kristen Stewart makes a plaything of her celebrity, giving a homes-of-the-stars Hollywood tour in Woody Allen's 1930s-era tale "Cafe Society"...

In a France darkened by fear, Cannes hopes to supply light

June 11, 2018 at 10:38 p.m.

The first time Jodie Foster came to the Cannes Film Festival, she did so as a co-star in Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver," and as a wide-eyed 13-year-old, soaking in the...

‘Eye in the Sky’ review: Helen Mirren’s colonel must choose between military and morals

June 11, 2018 at 3:41 a.m.

Omniscient high-definition views from above have done nothing to penetrate the fog of war in Gavin Hood's drone drama "Eye in the Sky." It's a lean, Lumet-like thriller that puts...

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie play a couple trying to reconnect in "By the Sea."

‘By the Sea’ review: Jolie Pitt directs a marriage on the rocks

June 16, 2018 at 11:31 a.m.

How do we picture the private lives of Angelina Jolie Pitt and Brad Pitt? If they were to, say, wind along the Mediterranean coast in a top-down convertible with Serge...

Actor Benicio del Toro attends a screening of "Sicario" on day 2 of the Toronto International Film Festival at the Princess of Wales theatre on Friday, Sept. 11, 2015, in Toronto.

‘Sicario’ lures Benicio del Toro back into the drug wars

June 15, 2018 at 8:42 a.m.

No other actor has covered all angles of the war on drugs — its tragedies, its violence, its farces — more than Benicio del Toro. It's a story that has...

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