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Review of The Hateful Eight (2015)

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

As the bodies pile up in the second half, along with the switchback narrative reveals, The Hateful Eight becomes a hermetically sealed exercise…

Review of Carol (1974)

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…

Review of Carol (2015)

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…

Review of Fish Tank (2009)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 20 Dec 2015

A remarkable downer-upper paradox: a bruising tale of teenage resilience, honest and emotionally complicated and alive…

Review of Sisters (2015)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 17 Dec 2015

Compared to so many varied and skillful female-driven hits such as Bridesmaids, or this summer's Trainwreck and Spy, Sisters isn't worth talking…

Review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 16 Dec 2015

It is good. Not great. But far better than not bad. Solidly, confidently good…

Review of The Ridiculous 6 (2015)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 12 Dec 2015

Strange as it seems, if you choose to set aside the female roles in The Ridiculous 6 reducing women to cleavage or to mute humiliation, the…

Review of Joy (2015)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 10 Dec 2015

Lawrence is very good in the role, as far as the role goes…

Review of Macbeth (2015)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 10 Dec 2015

Partly, I think, the problem lies in Kurzel and his key performers being so determined to make the language conversational and naturalistic,…

Review of The Big Short (2015)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 10 Dec 2015

If a film can essentially succeed while also remaining essentially frustrating, here's a prime example…

Review of Macbeth (2015)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 10 Dec 2015

However skillful, Fassbender and Cotillard perform as if nervous about being one of those ham actors who struts and frets his hour upon the…

Review of In Jackson Heights (2015)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 10 Dec 2015

Wiseman's film allows everyone their say, so that In Jackson Heights becomes one of the truest images of gentrification and its costs on film…

Review of In the Heart of the Sea (2015)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 10 Dec 2015

I wish Howard's film had more of a distinct personality and drive behind it; Howard's made some supremely enjoyable films, in various keys,…

Review of Monsters vs Aliens (2009)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 09 Dec 2015

It's tough to get on board with these monsters. They don't get the banter they--or we--deserve, and the screenwriters lean on wearying stereotypes…

Review of The Rape of Europa (2007)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 08 Dec 2015

It’s absorbing. The world came perilously close to losing so many Rembrandts, so many Klimts…

Review of The Revenant (2015)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 04 Dec 2015

That first hour is big, and imposing…

Review of The Brave One (2007)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 01 Dec 2015

The Brave One is Death Wish with a guilty conscience, and while it may be a bit of a hypocrite as vigilante thrillers go, the internal contradictions…

Review of I'm Not There (2007)

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

I appreciate Haynes’ craft and ambition. I love the Ledger/Gainsbourg scenes, which are sweet and sad and delicately shaded…

Review of Chi-Raq (2015)

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

If Chi-Raq disarms even a small percentage of those who see it, and provokes any reflection about a gun culture, the uses of satire and the…

Review of Secret in Their Eyes (2015)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 19 Nov 2015

Writer-director Billy Ray's Americanized redux isn't a disaster, exactly; it keeps its head down and does its job…

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