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Movie Reviews by Michael Phillips - Page 53 of 132

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Review of Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)

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

Style is a tricky, elusive thing, and this film doesn’t so much have it as strive for it, constantly…

Review of Body of Lies (2008)

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

The most interesting thing about this slick but frustrating picture is the way it puts Crowe’s Hoffman at the center of our mixed feelings…

Review of Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 15 Apr 2015

By design, the dialogue from the (fictional) play comments directly on the central, shifting power relationship in the film, sometimes elegantly,…

Review of Ex Machina (2015)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 15 Apr 2015

Alas, the movie cannot resolve its story in any sort of surprising or truly fresh way…

Review of True Story (2015)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 15 Apr 2015

True Story is a case of a well-crafted film, made by a first-time feature director with an impressive theatrical pedigree, that nonetheless…

Review of Monkey Kingdom (2015)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 15 Apr 2015

Even though the film shows very little of the rough stuff, it's still fairly traumatizing…

Review of Broken Horses (2015)

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

Broken Horses raises the question of what is cockamamie, and what is cockamamie and outlandish and ridiculous yet a perfectly swell time for…

Review of The Longest Ride (2015)

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

Even when Eastwood and Robertson, pleasant enough company, threaten to float off the screen, The Longest Ride glides along and delivers its…

Review of The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 06 Apr 2015

Why does “New Moon” basically work, even with its grave self-seriousness? A few reasons…

Review of While We're Young (2015)

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

As Cornelia's revered documentary filmmaker father, a crusty truth-teller in the Frederick Wiseman mold, Charles Grodin provides a master class…

Review of Woman in Gold (2015)

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

There's really no other word for what Helen Mirren is doing in certain reaction shots, out of subtle interpretive desperation: mugging…

Review of Furious 7 (2015)

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

It's roughly as realistic as Georges Melies' A Trip to the Moon, of course…

Review of The Salt of the Earth (2014)

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

Is what we see grief porn or an epic, careerlong study in the best and worst we can find on Earth? See the film and decide for yourself…

Review of Home (2016)

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

The movie is pretty droll, and it agitates for cross-species friendship; its aggressively packaged heart-tugging elements come with an interplanetary…

Review of Get Hard (2015)

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

It's a mystery why two bona fide comic stars, working very, very hard to keep this thing from tanking, couldn't pressure their collaborators…

Review of Danny Collins (2015)

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

There's a delayed-secret hitch in the narrative that hijacks the movie, for better or worse…

Review of Home (2016)

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

I brought a couple of my kids, who liked it fine and found the friendship at the center rather affecting…

Review of Home (2015)

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

The movie is pretty droll, and it agitates for cross-species friendship; its aggressively packaged heart-tugging elements come with an interplanetary…

Review of Home (2015)

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

I brought a couple of my kids, who liked it fine and found the friendship at the center rather affecting…

Review of Home (2015)

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

The movie is pretty droll, and it agitates for cross-species friendship; its aggressively packaged heart-tugging elements come with an interplanetary…

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