Michael Phillips

"The Marvels" is a movie about a fashion accessory collector who covets a complete set of forearm bling — four glowing bracelets, known as Quantum Bands — so, as the...

"Killers of the Flower Moon" is not short, nor should it be. At 3 hours, 26 minutes, it casts a spell, dark and mournful but alive. It may look like...

Like any streaming giant with an occasional interest in putting its titles in theaters first, if only for a moment, Netflix has given us plenty of junk. Plenty. "The Gray...

At Barton Academy, the fictional all-male enclave in director Alexander Payne's engaging grey-skies comedy "The Holdovers," there are stuffy, imperious, demanding professors ? and then there's Paul Hunham, the ancient...

There's a lot of quiet — in an empty living room save for one woman, at Graceland, in other spaces, a few seconds of solitude representing minutes and hours and...

"Five Nights at Freddy's" isn't half as scary as one or two of the parent-vs.-parent brawls I witnessed a few years ago at Chuck E. Cheese's, but that's another story,...

CinemaScore, the movie theater exit-polling operation, has measured audiences' opening-night reactions to new films since 1978, gradually gaining in influence and popularity. When "Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour" or "The...

There's a really good film in theaters right now, a few theaters, anyway. It's streaming as of Oct. 24 on Prime. There's your endorsement in two sentences. In "The Royal...

In a year marking a neighborhood shift in its primary screening venue, the AMC NewCity 14 in the gray area known as "sort of Goose Island, sort of Old Town,"...