Robert Abele

‘Eating Animals’ review: Natalie Portman, Jonathan Safran Foer want you to care about where your meat comes from

December 13, 2018 at 3:09 a.m.

With a title like "Eating Animals," unless you're familiar with author Jonathan Safran Foer's 2009 book and the personal journey it lays out, you may assume Christopher Quinn's documentary adaptation...

‘Boom for Real’ review: Jean-Michel Basquiat, before he was famous

December 13, 2018 at 12:51 p.m.

Great artists who die young still have long lives, as evidenced by not just their work but the mythologizing that swirls around their legacy. But what's refreshing about Sara Driver's...

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>

‘Souvenir’ review: Isabelle Huppert’s chanteuse aims for a comeback

December 14, 2018 at 6:05 p.m.

Isabelle Huppert as a has-been chanteuse is all a film fan should need to stoke the wanna-see factor for "Souvenir," and it probably doesn't hurt that there's a May-December romance...

‘Birdboy: The Forgotten Children’ review: Animated tale for surviving apocalypse not for kids

December 15, 2018 at 6:02 a.m.

It's still difficult to think of going to an animated film as a trip to bummersville, even when "Bambi" makes us cry, Ralph Bakshi skeevs us out, or Don Hertzfeldt...

Woody introduces the gang to a homemade spork toy with self-esteem issues in "Toy Story 4."
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‘The B-Side’ review: Portrait of the artist behind the camera

June 30, 2019 at 11:30 p.m.

Large pictures, small joys and an archive's radiance are the building blocks for the charm offensive that is "The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography," Errol Morris' winning documentary about his...

‘Chuck’ review: Liev Schreiber stars as the real-life ‘Rocky’

June 5, 2018 at 3:50 a.m.

Good boxing movies, as predictable as they may be, understand that as exciting as the punches in the ring are, they're no match for life's left hooks and right jabs....

‘Don’t Call Me Son’ review: World-shattering secret upends teen’s life

June 9, 2018 at 12:25 a.m.

Brazilian writer-director Anna Muylaert's new movie has been given the English language title "Don't Call Me Son," but it could easily be called by the English-language title of her last...

‘Operation Avalanche’ review: Pseudo-doc on fake moon landing a delightful voyage

June 12, 2018 at 4:31 p.m.

A breakneck homage to cinematic fakery, filmmaker Matt Johnson's "Operation Avalanche" repeatedly folds illusion, truth, and alternative history in on itself to a pleasurably absurd degree — a pseudo-documentary that...

‘Kicks’ review: Nimble drama about so much more than sneakers

June 12, 2018 at 12:20 p.m.

For 15-year-old Brandon (Jahking Guillory), the frizzy-haired, undersized kid protagonist of Justin Tipping's agile feature debut "Kicks," navigating adolescence and a rough, depressed Oakland, Calif., neighborhood is like working a...

‘Neither Heaven Nor Earth’ review: Soldiers’ well-being a casualty of war

June 12, 2018 at 1:08 p.m.

War movies generally divide their psychological card-dealing along standard lines: Frontline stories handle the knife's-edge survival tension, while postwar tales confront the mental fallout. What makes French filmmaker Clement Cogitore's...

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