Michael Phillips

There is no way in hell “Uncle Drew” should be anything more than a cynical, stretch-marked cash grab, since it yoinks together a feature-length movie from a series of Pepsi-funded...

Sick as it sounds, “Sicario: Day of the Soldado” is the lucky beneficiary of every belligerent tweet, crying child and political point scored in the chaos of the current Mexico/U.S....

In most historical biopics, there comes the time for the “not zat ragtime!” moment, named (by me) after a line uttered in a largely forgotten example of the genre, “The...

Although “Incredibles 2” is the box-office triumph of the moment, earning $180 million in its opening weekend and setting an all-time record for animated features, it’s not the Disney movie...

Of all the terrors on view in “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,” the sight of Toby Jones’ toupee bobbing up and down, when his character (a sniveling dinosaur auctioneer) dashes into...

You should visit if you haven’t. Most of the year, Millennium Park’s 2.5-acre Lurie Garden serves as a subtle reminder of the beauty of native plants discreetly running riot. The...

Subjects of a 2013 Wall Street Journal feature, the real-life friends who provoked the new comedy “Tag” are, let’s assume, decent guys, fun-loving and supportive and appreciative of having the...

The grungy, fairly entertaining remake of “Superfly” borrows a few key narrative hooks from the 1972 original, along with key elements of its fantastic Curtis Mayfield soundtrack (notably “Pusherman”). But...

The report cards are in, and the critically lauded “Hereditary” is one crummy letter grade away from having failed the average American moviegoer. The average American moviegoers apparently expected a...

When writer-director Brad Bird made “The Incredibles” (2004), the superhero movie genre looked nothing like the overcrowded youth hostel it does today. The “X-Men” movies, the fledgling “Spider-Man” franchise and...