Michael Phillips

In 2003, David Grann’s lovably bizarre true-crime account “The Old Man and the Gun” appeared in The New Yorker, telling the unlikely story of Forrest Tucker, a natty serial bank...

Nobody ever lost money remaking “A Star is Born,” Hollywood’s favorite tragic romantic fable. Whether it’s any good doesn’t matter. To wit: The 1976 Barbra Streisand/ Kris Kristofferson remake wasn’t...

Director Ethan Hawke’s “Blaze” paints a sweetly melancholy portrait of a singer-songwriter, the gifted, self-destructive Texas-based Blaze Foley (born Michael David Fuller). The movie neither apologizes for his destructive excesses...

Near the end of her amorously hectic life, the French writer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, known by millions by her last name, spoke to an interviewer for a documentary. She offered some...

An earlier version of this review had an incorrect name of an actor. Am I asking too much of “Night School”? It’s no big thing, this new movie starring Kevin...

Bloody, sentimental and shrewdly acted, “The Sisters Brothers” opens with a conspicuous bang and then clip-clops along a winding path, alternating between sibling-rivalry wisecracks and wry observations of a rapidly...

Not since “Hoop Dreams” in 1994 has Kartemquin Films, Chicago’s venerable nonprofit documentary powerhouse, enjoyed this kind of national profile. “America to Me,” director Steve James’ 10-part nonfiction series about...

Gilda Radner, the funniest woman on television in the 1970s, got hired by Lorne Michaels for what was originally called “NBC’s Saturday Night” before anybody else — before John Belushi,...