Michael Phillips

"You can't be walking around at night, on a white street, and not expect trouble." Author Isabel Wilkerson's mother has likely said something like this before, in one of any...

Across 41 years and 70-some films, Juliette Binoche — the gold standard for cinematic expressivity, and for performances both imposing and delicately shaded — has figured out a few things....

A singular affront, in ways more conventionally wrenching movie treatments of the Holocaust such as "Schindler's List" never were, "The Zone of Interest" withholds as much as it reveals, reorienting...

"Mean Girls," the musical, the movie, works fairly well. I know, I know. Curb your enthusiasm there, bub. But that's how it is. Like "The Color Purple," another movie musical...

The British musician and filmmaker Jeymes Samuel wanted to make a Biblical epic like "Ben-Hur," with a side order of Biblical-adjacent "Spartacus," but his way. The result is the satiric/earnest/rollicking/mellow...

As supernatural thrillers go, "Night Swim" is a quick dip — persuasively acted and quite effective in its first half, scattered and woozy in its second. The latest Blumhouse Productions...

Coming off our rainy, unfrozen holiday season, what do we want from our midwinter movies? Anything with snowstorms? (Yes!) Big blasts of sequel escapism? (Well, maybe.) The new film from...

"All of Us Strangers" is a lovely way to begin 2024, not because it's especially seasonal — though one key scene takes place around Christmastime — but because it's just...

Add up Michael Mann's many decades and finest hours as a filmmaker, and it's clear the Chicago native has done a lot for us, along every kind of road. The...