Michael Phillips

The early 17th century potboiler "The Tragedy of Macbeth" is the shortest of Shakespeare's tragedies. Director and adapter Joel Coen, working here without brother Ethan, took on this film version...

For many Chicagoans, 2021 can just go away now. For others, including Gordon Quinn, it's a more heartening memory. For Quinn, this year was a quietly momentous improvement over the...

Jane Campion's adaptation of the Thomas Savage novel "The Power of the Dog," a tale of furiously repressed sexual urges in 1925 Montana, dominated the 2021 Chicago Film Critics Association...

According to "Red Rocket," the latest movie — raunchy, restless, cinematically vital — from writer-director Sean Baker, the oil refinery Gulf Coast town of Texas City, Texas offers limited options...

I love the way Guillermo del Toro spends a production budget. The director-fabulist behind "Pan's Labyrinth," "The Shape of Water" and other trancelike stories wants us to feel, and smell,...

Casting Tom Holland as Peter Parker was one of the sharper decisions to emerge from the ever-present, oxygen-sucking Marvel Cinematic Universe. What a business model! These movies are designed to...

In "Drive My Car," a lovely movie about the interior dramas we all carry around through life, a multilingual group of actors have come to Hiroshima to prepare a production...

In the largely Saab-bound short story "Drive My Car," part of Haruki Murakami's collection "Men Without Women," an actor takes a job playing the title role in Anton Chekhov's simple,...