Michael Phillips

At the end of "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret," the hugely rewarding film version of Judy Blume's 1970 classic, the characters played by Abby Ryder Fortson and Rachel...

So many reasons. There are so many reasons to grieve the death on April 25 of Harry Belafonte, who died at home on Manhattan's Upper West Side at the age...

Guilty as charged! "Beau is Afraid," three hours of bleak wonderment that feels, well, like three hours of bleak wonderment, Beau Wassermann awaits the start of his latest therapy session...

A droll, easygoing procession of slights, obstacles and microaggressions on the road to an artist's gallery opening, "Showing Up" could be classified as co-writer and director Kelly Reichardt's first comedy...

The Florida-born filmmaker and Bard College film professor Kelly Reichardt makes beautiful movies about harsh conditions. In the singular early 19th century Oregon-set "First Cow" and now with her newest...

Robert Zemeckis? That's easy. He's a technological wizard, an unsettling populist, a shameless heartwarmer, a blackhearted satirist, an Oscar winner, a frequent financial and critical disappointment and, to many, an...

"Renfield" has fine, crafty actors in its corner. The reliable Nicolas Cage, a guy who always gives 110%, is in there, sprinkling delightful expressions of enthusiasm ("wooo!") under his Dracula...

The title of writer and director A.V. Rockwell's gripping drama "A Thousand and One" is nailed to a Harlem apartment door: 10-01. The hyphen fell off a long time ago....

A swift, bright 77 minutes not counting end credits, the South London-set "Rye Lane" (streaming on Hulu from March 31) has two fantastic faces at its center and a wealth...

With director Chad Stahelski's massively successful opening week of "John Wick: Chapter 4" dominating a nervous film industry at the moment, the time is right to argue about the movies'...