Guy Lodge

‘Bel Canto’ review: Julianne Moore plays a diva who steps out of her bubble and into a hostage crisis

December 12, 2018 at 5:10 p.m.

A brilliant, celebrated performer accepts a low-profile gig in unfamiliar environs, only to be trapped as the situation falls apart around her. But enough about Julianne Moore agreeing to star...

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://bancodeprofissionais.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

‘A Bag of Marbles’ review: Children escape Nazis in war-torn France

May 1, 2018 at 8:25 p.m.

There's scarcely a scene in "A Bag of Marbles" that you haven't seen already — but those scenes have worked on most of us before, and if you can put...

‘Finding Your Feet’ review: Imelda Staunton dances past the heartbreak of affair

December 14, 2018 at 10:08 a.m.

For a film as ostensibly bouncy as "Finding Your Feet," there's an awful lot of death in it. That's no bad thing. As Richard Loncraine's good-natured golden-years comedy zips through...

‘Hannah’ review: Charlotte Rampling embodies loneliness of a woman left behind

December 14, 2018 at 9:52 p.m.

Pity the luckless fellow students in the amateur dramatics classes attended by the title character in "Hannah": They might try their best, but week after week, they have to go...

‘Porto’ review: Anton Yelchin stars in a film that’s in love with love and cinema

December 15, 2018 at 12:02 a.m.

The posthumously released projects of recently departed actors can make for discomfiting viewing, not least when the tone of the film is at odds with the viewer's still-tender feelings regarding...

‘Thirst Street’ review: An American in Paris gone wrong

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

Nathan Silver has an eye for a great face — a beautiful one, marked and matured and made extraordinary by feeling — that you don't typically see at the center...

‘BPM’ review: Portrait of Parisian AIDS activists in the early ’90s

December 17, 2018 at 2:05 p.m.

What does it take to fight a pandemic? Knowledge, courage and resilience, certainly, but also rough-and-tumble argument, a range of friendships both consoling and abrasive, a healthy sense of gallows...

‘Fun Mom Dinner’ review: A meal of savory appetizers, not hearty cuisine

June 3, 2018 at 2:23 a.m.

Sometimes a film is precisely no more and no less than the sum of its parts, and that's just fine. So it is with "Fun Mom Dinner," a cheerfully scatty,...

A grown-up Christopher Robin returns to the Hundred Acre Wood and his best friend Winnie the Pooh.
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‘Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe’ review: Biopic celebrates Austrian author

June 3, 2018 at 6:07 a.m.

The literary biopic can be a tricky, sometimes even self-defeating, film genre. After all, watching a great writer (or a thespian facsimile thereof) furrow their brow over a typewriter tends...

‘The Bad Batch’ review: Ana Lily Amirpour’s 2nd effort leaves viewers wanting more

June 3, 2018 at 1:27 p.m.

At a time when President Donald Trump is advocating the construction of a physical wall to protect the national purity of the American population, the science-fiction conceit of "The Bad...

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