Michael Phillips

Smoother than café au lait, the low-keyed French confection "Non-Fiction" has a few things to say about publishing in the digital age; the old bourgeois guard making way for an...

"Booksmart" takes a familiar blueprint and uses it to build a movie we haven't seen often enough: an R-rated teen comedy (meaning, a comedy about teenagers) focusing on a great...

Give the new six-episode Hulu miniseries version of "Catch-22" two episodes of your time, and then make your call. It took me two to get on board with it, after...

A warm and moving speculation on Shakespeare's final years, "All is True" has no interest in adhering to the historical record of the dramatist's life and resume. There is no...

Not all touring acts are created equal, and surely there's nothing out there — or in Chicago, tonight for one performance only — remotely like the screening of the 1933...

After a seven-month search, Chicago's documentary powerhouse Kartemquin Films has hired New Orleans-based filmmaker and nonprofit arts veteran Jolene Pinder as Kartemquin's executive director. Pinder, who turns 41 next week,...