Michael Phillips

Maureen Ryan can't deny it, as she writes in her first book: "Burn It Down: Power, Complicity and a Call for Change in Hollywood." For much of her life, the...

Good news this morning. We have a good superhero film! Nothing like the not-good ones we see so often. "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" looks like a dream, as did its...

How much truth can a marriage withstand? That question provides the source of all the feelings in "You Hurt My Feelings," the latest — a comedy of insecurity, buoyed by...

It's there in the headline, pal. I like the new version of "The Little Mermaid." I like it partly because I've seen the animated Disney "Little Mermaid" exactly once. Didn't...

With a load of family love and cooperation, the documentary "It Ain't Over" celebrates the accomplishments of St. Louis-born, New York Yankees-bred Lawrence "Yogi" Berra (1925-2015), whose talent for phrasemaking...

It springs from many inspirations, notably Robert Bresson's "Pickpocket," but writer-director Paul Schrader has made the components his own and then some: an isolated man, alone in a room, writes...

Unlike "Fast X," let's keep this review quick and fuel-efficient. "I'll kill Dominic Toretto. I'll kill 'em all." So says the disturbed, ballet-loving Dante (the movie comes pretty close to...

Persistent COVID cases aside: The pandemic must be over, because look at "The Super Mario Bros. Movie!" It's made $1.2 billion worldwide. Where babysitter movies point the way to recovery...

Now in its third week, the Writers Guild of America strike affects its 11,500 members and, more and more, the work you're watching on one screen or another, and the...