Michael Phillips

"Flash," meet pan. Last weekend at movie theaters, DC's stand-alone superhero film "The Flash" starring Ezra Miller, twice, and featuring three Batmen (Michael Keaton most prominently), fell short of box...

Wes Anderson's latest mirage, "Asteroid City," carries a lighter and literally sunnier spirit than usual for this filmmaker, whose sense of whimsy can sometimes curdle into, well, a bit of...

Comedy shorts have played the role of the new vaudeville for years now. The short-film format serves as the modern-day Orpheum Circuit, a proving ground where expandable ideas and distinctive...

Actor Treat Williams: versatile, rock-solid, widely respected. And now, gone. He died June 12 in Dorset, Vermont, after his motorcycle collided with an S.U.V. turning into a parking lot, according...

"First time in Chicago!" Celine Song says, grinning, in between talking about her superb feature film debut as writer-director, "Past Lives." We're having coffee downtown, the morning after her film...

Some quick web-slinging — thwip! thwip! tthhhhwwwwip! — on what's behind the opening-week success of "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse," and why it's the superhero movie we needed to counteract the...

You know what's not bad? "Transformers: Rise of the Beasts." Dumber than a box of lugnuts, but superior to the Michael Bay-directed schlocktaculars that ran as long as 165 minutes....

It's a rare movie that settles, quietly, into some part of your own experiences and memories without a speck of narrative contrivance gumming up your response to the story on...

Reliably the widest game in a town full of panoramic diversions, the Music Box Theatre's 70 millimeter festival, 2023 edition, arrives with a new name. It's "New Adventures in 70MM,"...