Michael Phillips

That mission from God paid off: “The Blues Brothers” officially has bested “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “A League of Their Own,” “The Untouchables” and “Call Northside 777,” among others, to...

America. It’s still a free country. Therefore we have to put up with the occasional “Death Wish.” Some believe the timing of this remake’s release Friday is bad taste incarnate,...

Jennifer Lawrence is a movie star who, at 27, happens also to be a genuine and terrifically nervy actress. Her talent remains very much in evidence in the spy thriller...

Every April, in a city packed with film festivals up and down the food chain, one of Chicago’s most valuable pocket-sized offerings puts a handful of nonfiction films before the...

The modest but legitimate payoffs in the new action comedy “Game Night” owe everything to the comedy and not much to the action. Most of the truly great action pictures...

In the popular culture and various corners of our own lives, we confront the unknown in one form or another, learning something about our own fears and desires. The examples...

The misfires in a great director’s career tell us as much about our love for that director’s work as the acknowledged masterworks do. On Monday at the Music Box, presented...