Michael Phillips

It couldn't outmaneuver the pandemic enemy that delayed its release for two years, but "Top Gun: Maverick" can't lose, really. It's a pretty good time, and often a pretty good...

The last time a major filmmaker ventured into a nightmarish Garden of Eden amid a swirl of Christian and pagan warnings of the evil that men do, the filmmaker was...

If it succeeds in drawing moviegoers into theaters, 2022 might well be on its way to a throwback summer season approaching pre-COVID 2019 box office action. Is that a pipe...

With any war movie, the safe audience bet typically favors the immediate, graphic horrors of battle. That way, when you see a title such as "Hacksaw Ridge," you know a...

The first three installments of HBO Max's "The Staircase" are now streaming. I've seen five of the eight in this limited series, based on the long-form documentary of the same...

"He makes zombie movies, and he makes superhero movies. And sometimes he makes both in the same movie!" So says the 12-year-old Marvel Cinematic Universe fan who lives in our...

Around the two-thirds mark in countless whodunits by Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and others, there comes the moment when the reader realizes the story resolution will depend to some...

Narrative fabrications aren't the problem with "The Offer," Paramount Plus's fawning, fancy-free account of how fledgling producer Al Ruddy barely broke a sweat while steering "The Godfather" into movie history....