Guy Lodge

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>

‘The Bride’ review: Overstylized production fails to bring Lorca classic to life

June 11, 2018 at 3:57 p.m.

"The Bride" may be a pedestrian choice of title for a new adaptation of Federico Garcia Lorca's ever-crimson play "Blood Wedding," but perhaps the change is fitting: Paula Ortiz's decorative...

‘Equity’ movie review: Anna Gunn aims to conquer Wall Street

June 10, 2018 at 10:09 a.m.

If "The Wolf of Wall Street" took flak in some quarters for complicitly reveling in the glossy moral bankruptcy of its otherwise loaded brokers, the same accusation is unlikely to...

‘Diary of a Chambermaid’ review: Fifty Shades of Grey Poupon?

June 10, 2018 at 9:47 a.m.

A degree of hubris is required for any current Continental auteur to re-adapt Octave Mirbeau's 1900 succes de scandale "Diary of a Chambermaid," given its enduring association with the names...

‘Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You’ review: Rose-colored look at the showrunner’s life

December 17, 2018 at 5:42 p.m.

With politics of representation in the U.S. entertainment industry currently under intense scrutiny, "Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You" doesn't feel quite like the comforting nostalgia trip one might...

A grown-up Christopher Robin returns to the Hundred Acre Wood and his best friend Winnie the Pooh.
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‘A Monster With a Thousand Heads’ review: Woman valiantly battles health insurance company

June 10, 2018 at 10:18 a.m.

At a nervily compact 74 minutes, "A Monster With a Thousand Heads" often feels as if it's unfolding in real time — even as necessary narrative logistics dictate otherwise. Such...

‘Sworn Virgin’ review: Complicated gender issues in Albania

June 10, 2018 at 4:15 p.m.

The rising profile of transgender issues in popular culture could clear an arthouse path for Laura Bispuri's sensitive, deliberate debut feature, "Sworn Virgin," though it's not a film that actively...

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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‘Sweet Bean’ review: Japanese tale of love, loss and pancakes

June 11, 2018 at 1:21 a.m.

Naomi Kawase's "An" ("Sweet Bean"), a soft-centered ode to the virtues of patience, tolerance and bean-filled pancakes, is easily her most accessible film to date — at little if any...

‘Bridgend’ review: ‘Game of Thrones’ Hannah Murray stars in teen suicide drama

June 12, 2018 at 2:42 a.m.

An unimaginable reality is brought to the brink of clarity — only to plunge right back into a psychological abyss — in Danish director Jeppe Ronde's potent, pain-ridden "Bridgend." A...

‘Man Up’ review: Lake Bell charms as a Brit

June 16, 2018 at 8:43 a.m.

For viewers still waiting for the third "Bridget Jones" film, Ben Palmer's easy, breezy romantic comedy "Man Up" offers a pleasant sense of deja vu: Not only does it trail...

‘Stinking Heaven’ review: Turmoil inside a commune for ex-addicts

June 16, 2018 at 10:00 a.m.

A certain pungency of feeling — as implied by that uninviting but ultimately appropriate title — steams from the surface of "Stinking Heaven," Nathan Silver's fifth and most furiously combative...

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