Michael Phillips

Halfway through coffee with Emily Long, the new executive director of the Gene Siskel Film Center, we had a little linguistic misunderstanding. She mentioned an upcoming September Film Center retrospective...

Whether "Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One" turns out to be a massive hit or merely a hit, it's certainly the franchise action picture of the year, the one...

Barely two months have passed since Chicago audiences saw "Other People's Children," starring the busy and reliably excellent Virginie Efira. Her instincts locate the tenderness in both drama and light...

At this point in our 2023 screen lives, we've seen just about everything money and a near-total lack of filmmaking magic can buy. But there are still artists among us,...

Crammed, heartily, full of sex, drugs and K-pop covers of Cardi B (song title hint: It's not "Be Careful"), the new comedy "Joy Ride" rivals "Everything Everywhere All at Once"...

Midway through "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny," a movie janked up with enough digital effects to rival the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, Harrison Ford gets on a boat....

Lots of actors work hard at their craft, and appear to work as constantly as possible. Then there's Judy Greer, in a class by herself. Her performances in TV ("Arrested...

Blue. Or pink. There are other colors. But not for newborns, according to generations of medical, cultural and political rigidity ignoring the estimated 1.7% of the global population born with...

I don't want to oversell "No Hard Feelings." I don't want to undersell it, either. It's enjoyable and generates a lot of laughs, some cheap, some clever. It's gratifying to...