Michael Phillips

“Captain Marvel” pushes a rabid feminist agenda. Meaning: There’s a female lead this time. So that’s one more white male out of work. It’s fun. In various ways, some better...

According to the Netflix “More Details” page for “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind,” the new movie has been officially categorized as “… HEARTFELT, INSPIRING.” I recommend it — in...

Even a lame movie can give you something to remember. In director Neil Jordan’s distressingly ordinary stalker-thriller “Greta,” that something arrives in a restaurant scene featuring Chloe Grace Moretz, as...

In this blurry week of Jussie Smollett, Donald Trump (it’s every week with that guy) and idly rampant Oscars speculation, the mere existence of “The Wild Pear Tree” seems absurd....

You never know which trilogy will, in fact, call it quits after round three. After that viciously sentimental and ruthlessly prolonged farewell in Disney-Pixar’s “Toy Story 3,” for example, you...

The more globally famous the celebrity, the tougher audiences tend to be on a biopic. Unless it’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” because, you know. All those hits. A different sort of hit-making...