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Review of The Finest Hours (2016)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 28 Jan 2016

The script embraces certain character archetypes wholeheartedly (pig-headed crew mate; ramrod-stiff officer) and not always successfully…

Review of Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont (2005)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 24 Jan 2016

The cast manages some sweet moments, and Plowright lends a touch of grace and wit to each new indignity or kindness…

Review of Censored Voices (2015)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 22 Jan 2016

Censored Voices likely would've benefited from additional reflection from the older, on-screen subjects…

Review of The 5th Wave (2016)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 22 Jan 2016

The action's pretty fair, and fairly violent, though the quality of the digital photography is all over the place, with some key night scenes…

Review of Ride Along 2 (2016)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 21 Jan 2016

The script by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi gives you next to nothing for narrative complication and surprise, and a meager amount of verbal jokes…

Review of The Lady in the Van (2015)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 21 Jan 2016

Shepherd, apparently, was a genuine, needle-sharp wit and the way Smith plays her, the character's tart rejoinders are superhumanly perfect…

Review of 45 Years (2015)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 21 Jan 2016

It's more than a first-rate film showing up and doing its job…

Review of The Da Vinci Code (2006)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 14 Jan 2016

It stars Tom Hanks in his first genuinely dull screen performance…

Review of 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 14 Jan 2016

Some of this is slick and enjoyable in what I'd characterize as the wrong way, the painlessly bloody, box-office-friendly way…

Review of The Secret Scripture (2017)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 14 Jan 2016

Some of this is slick and enjoyable in what I'd characterize as the wrong way, the painlessly bloody, box-office-friendly way…

Review of Horse Money (2014)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 14 Jan 2016

The director has plenty of influences, Stanley Kubrick and Old Hollywood classicists such as John Ford among them…

Review of Mustang (2015)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 14 Jan 2016

The issues at play in Mustang are gravely serious but the tone and rhythm is brisk, headlong and intelligently lively, like the women at the center…

Review of Drag Me to Hell (2009)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 13 Jan 2016

Raimi knows how to modulate his technique, as with the coolly controlled morality tale A Simple Plan, but he's a firm believer in the power…

Review of The Forest (2016)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 07 Jan 2016

There's not a lot of filmmaking energy in The Forest, and roughly 40 minutes of story surrounded by 45 more minutes of Dormer in nonverbal distress…

Review of The Forest (2016)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 07 Jan 2016

For the record, Gus Van Sant recently made The Sea of Trees, set in the same infamous suicide forest, starring Matthew McConaughey and Ken…

Review of The Great Beauty (2013)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 05 Jan 2016

It's a beauty, all right…

Review of Anomalisa (2015)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 30 Dec 2015

It's Chekhovian screwball, a perfect little tale of love (or thereabouts) in bloom among the weeds of an ordinary life…

Review of Antichrist (2009)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 29 Dec 2015

I’m inclined to agree with a colleague who told me he could swing with Antichrist when it was simply unstable but couldn’t go with it when…

Review of Wanted (2008)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 26 Dec 2015

What are Jolie and Freeman and McAvoy doing here, besides acting cooler than Clive Owen in Shoot ’Em Up? Cashing a check, that's what…

Review of Carol (1990)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 23 Dec 2015

This excellent film works the way Blanchett's characterization of Carol works: It's meticulous about appearances, while fully aware that appearances…

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