Michael Phillips

Satire is everywhere and nowhere right now. It's the thing so many series and movies tiptoe near, without getting their hands and stories around. "The White Lotus" isn't really satire;...

On the morning of Oct. 13, 1992, 7-year-old Dantrell Davis was walking to school with his mother when a gang member's stray bullet struck and killed the boy on the...

While the trailer suggests the reboot Universal Studios wishes this one were, instead of the one it is, co-writer and director Nia DaCosta has made her own kind of "Candyman"...

Rebecca Hall is the whole, compelling show in modestly scaled chiller "The Night House," set in a carefully designed riddle of a lakeside home somewhere in upstate New York. As...

In "Reminiscence," opening in theaters Friday and on couches parked in front of HBO Max, there's water, water everywhere. Miami resembles a soggy, reluctant Venice. Writer-director Lisa Joy, a "Westworld"...

It happens. Sometimes you get two lava-spewing melodramas the same damn summer, as with "Dante's Peak" and "Volcano" a generation ago. And this very week, ignoring every risky-overlap story factor...

Based on a sample group of one, it's possible to be grateful for the existence and, especially, the actors in "CODA" (streaming on Apple TV+ Aug. 13) and still be...

You can see the look in her eye, as clearly as you see the microphone in her hand. It's the look that dreams, future awards and starring roles in Aretha...