Michael Phillips

The terrifically efficient and just plain terrific Steven Soderbergh thriller "Kimi" has been streaming for two weeks now, ever since sneaking onto HBO Max with a lack of fanfare bordering...

The new "Cyrano" movie is an eyeful; but for the ear, more like half-full. But you always take your chances with a musical adaptation of the 1897 Edmond Rostand play....

I love film music. I love the good stuff, anyway, the music that lifts a good film into greatness and a great film into the stratosphere. I love the visual-aural...

A moderately engaging fraud, the nine-episode miniseries "Inventing Anna" brings up the question of focus, and sending a true-scam narrative down intersecting tracks. I think the thinking behind the story...

With in-person moviegoing now in the three-question-mark phase of pandemic recovery (can it, in fact, survive and thrive in select markets???), the Austin, Texas-based Alamo Drafthouse Cinema chain is coming...

So much rom-com crud can be found floating on certain streaming platforms (*coughNetflix*), especially around V-day. But on Amazon Prime, premiering Friday, "I Want You Back" reminds us of the...

For a slow-boat river cruise, and a spluttery sort of movie, "Death on the Nile" covers a lot of territory. It's a gently but firmly diversified version of Agatha Christie's...