Michael Phillips

"You should've gone for the head." So uttered Josh Brolin as Thanos last year, in "Avengers: Infinity War," just before he snapped his gloved fingers and cut the population of...

The latest frisky Disneynature film, "Penguins," creates a character introduced as a 5-year-old Adelie penguin the screenwriter, David Fowler, has named Steve. "Meet Steve," narrator Ed Helms says. He's about...

It's harder than it should be to describe Kent Jones' "Diane" in a way that makes it sound distinctive or special, which it is. It's easier to say how lovely...

A massive rookie mistake — director Sydney Pollack and his 16-millimeter film crew forgot to use a clapperboard synchronizing the sound with the image for each new take —delivered roughly...

“Doc10” started small and stayed that way. It remains a 10-film documentary festival, opening its fourth edition Thursday with the Sundance Film Festival favorite “Knock Down the House,” recently acquired...

The films of Claire Denis rarely stray from the longing of strangers in a strange land, to borrow a 1961 sci-fi book title, whether she’s dealing with French colonialists in...

Returning this week to the Gene Siskel Film Center, in a digital restoration just sharp enough not to serrate the edges of a determinedly mellow picture, director Joan Micklin Silver’s...

Set in 1971 North Carolina, “The Best of Enemies” finds Taraji P. Henson taking on the Klan and, through a radical act of kindness, winning. Against similar odds, the movie...

“Shazam!” isn’t bad, which by recent DC Comics movie standards (“Wonder Woman” excepted) means it’s practically a masterwork. To paraphrase Jack Lipnik, the studio head in “Barton Fink”: It has...