Column: The rewards — and limitations — of movie night at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra By Michael Phillips February 24, 2022 at 7:38 a.m. I love film music. I love the good stuff, anyway, the music that lifts a...
‘Strawberry Mansion’ review: It’s 2035, your dreams are full of advertisements and making someone very rich By Michael Phillips February 21, 2022 at 1:19 p.m. Now at the Music Box Theatre and streaming via Music Box Films later this month,...
Review: ‘A Night of Knowing Nothing,’ set during student protests in India, was my favorite film of 2021. You’ll know in minutes if it casts a spell on you, too. By Michael Phillips February 21, 2022 at 9:45 p.m. A gorgeous act of poetic resistance, "A Night of Knowing Nothing" asserts the power of...
Review: Channing Tatum embarks on road trip with canine companion in ‘Dog’ By Katie Walsh February 17, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. The underdog is a good position for Channing Tatum. Despite being one of the most...
‘Inventing Anna’ review: The con goes on, and on. But a good cast helps this 9-episode Netflix series. By Michael Phillips February 16, 2022 at 11:51 a.m. A moderately engaging fraud, the nine-episode miniseries "Inventing Anna" brings up the question of focus,...
Review: ‘Uncharted’ gets a little lost, though Mark Wahlberg and Tom Holland are fun to watch By Katie Walsh February 15, 2022 at 12:40 p.m. It's well into the third act of "Uncharted," during the airborne pirate ship battle, that...
Best and worst commercials of Super Bowl 2022 — and Larry David can sell me crypto anytime he likes By Michael Phillips February 14, 2022 at 11:04 a.m. I don't get it. If none of us will "look back on our lives and...
Alamo Drafthouse movie theater coming to Wrigleyville By Michael Phillips February 12, 2022 at 6:39 p.m. With in-person moviegoing now in the three-question-mark phase of pandemic recovery (can it, in fact,...
‘I Want You Back’ review: Exes to grind? Jenny Slate and Charlie Day are there for you via Amazon Prime By Michael Phillips February 9, 2022 at 2:10 p.m. So much rom-com crud can be found floating on certain streaming platforms (*coughNetflix*), especially around...
‘Death on the Nile’ review: Kenneth Branagh returns as the detective in an Agatha Christie whodunit featuring Gal Gadot, Letitia Wright — and the scandal that is Armie Hammer By Michael Phillips February 9, 2022 at 5:30 a.m. For a slow-boat river cruise, and a spluttery sort of movie, "Death on the Nile"...