Michael Phillips

Shot on hazy, evocative 16 millimeter film, and now playing at the Music Box in a 4k digital restoration that (thankfully) does not harsh its mellow, the early Olivier Assayas...

Apart from a few exteriors and some flashbacks, the pungent, eccentric “Hotel Artemis” confines its story to a single night, 10 years in the future, inside a beautiful ruin of...

Some movies are more about parallel play than actual playground interaction, and despite a screenful of terrifically skillful talents, “Ocean’s 8” never quite gets its ensemble act together. It’s smooth,...

“Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” is a depressingly good documentary about a singularly empathetic television personality. Fred Rogers (1928-2003) knew what he was up against in a culture, and an...

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, as Tolstoy noted in a sentence so right, by the time you started arguing with it...

His work didn’t reflect the real world as anyone else knew it, or moved through it. Instead, Stanley Kubrick’s freakishly controlled, symphonically intense visions of human folly imagined a universe...

A highly seaworthy star performance from “Divergent” trilogy captain Shailene Woodley battles an onslaught of Category 4-level flashbacks in “Adrift.” This is the fact-based drama of what happened to Tami...

The fairly peppy, extremely gory science fiction thriller “Upgrade” was originally titled “Stem,” referring to a digital cockroach (“a new, better brain,” its pale inventor notes) implanted in the body...

“A life without despair is a life without hope,” says the man at the center of Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed.” That paradox embraces the world as it is, and suggests...