Michael Phillips

When you turn 90, if you haven't yet, you should celebrate your way, maybe with family, friends, cake and lovely, varied memories from a long and interesting life. The Music...

We find the truth where we can. Those who refuse to acknowledge the truth on account of personal paranoia or some private, Deep State condition of the psyche will always...

The superb new documentary "One Child Nation" comes from filmmaker Nanfu Wang, who tells a shadowy, complex story of her family and of China's notorious population control methods implemented in...

More so than most filmmakers who treat their characters like human beings, rather than cardboard plot inhabitants, the writer-director Richard Linklater intuits his way into finding the right tone, or...

The tale of three sixth-graders f-bombing their way through a series of adolescence-threatening adventures en route to a nerve-wracking kissing party, "Good Boys" (boring title) is located at the intersection...

Compared to the explosion of revenge-fantasy gore near the end of Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood," served as dessert after a long, leisurely meal of beautiful,...

With nearly $1.3 billion in worldwide ticket sales so far, the new, photorealistically animated version of "The Lion King" proves there's no end to the circle of life when it...

Documentary filmmaker James Longley sets up a serious aesthetic challenge for himself in "Angels are Made of Light," opening Friday at Facets in Chicago. Can a film, photographed across three...