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Movie Reviews by Michael Phillips - Page 55 of 132

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Review of Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (2014)

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

A highly compressed, exquisitely acted tale of two people who do not belong together plays out as a courtroom saga that, in story terms, runs…

Review of Focus (2015)

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

Screen chemistry between two individuals isn't really a pass/fail proposition. There are degrees involved…

Review of Focus (2014)

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

Even in a lark about con artists working through their trust issues, we need more…

Review of Bluebird (2015)

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

The dangling ending won't appeal to everyone, but nobody makes a movie like Bluebird with that in mind, anyway…

Review of Religulous (2008)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 22 Feb 2015

It's a fairly entertaining bash, with a travelogue vibe established by director Larry Charles (Borat). It’s also smug as all hell…

Review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 22 Feb 2015

Fox's cleavage is the only camera object that catches Bay's attention for more than a millisecond…

Review of McFarland, USA (2015)

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

It's nice to see a movie that is, well, nice. Nice but not dumb. It's also a comfortable fit for Costner…

Review of Hogtown (2014)

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

Like the great, bittersweet Thomas Dyja account of Chicago's 20th century, The Third Coast, Hogtown is hip to both the glories and the disgraces…

Review of The DUFF (2015)

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

Whitman's a wily cross between Janeane Garofalo and Ellen Page and in her scenes with her motivational-speaker single mother (Allison Janney),…

Review of Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

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

The surprise, if there is a surprise here, is that the film has found a slyly humorous tone for much of the running time…

Review of Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)

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

Silly, sadistic and finally a little galling, Kingsman: The Secret Service answers the question: What would Colin Firth have been like if he'd…

Review of X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

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

A chaotic headbanger, X-Men Origins: Wolverine is saved from pure flat-footed blockbuster franchise adequacy by six things, three of them on…

Review of Jupiter Ascending (2015)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 05 Feb 2015

The movie doesn't really work, but the jet boots would be the envy of Iron Man, and they allow our hero, unwisely named Caine Wise, to speedskate…

Review of Girlhood (2014)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 05 Feb 2015

Throughout Girlhood the malignant energy that results from having a scary home life never entirely dissipates…

Review of Kurt Cobain: About a Son (2007)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 03 Feb 2015

Near the end, we hear Cobain reveal his disdain for adults who “can’t even pretend, or at least have enough courtesy for their children,…

Review of Traitor (2008)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 02 Feb 2015

Problems aside, this is a good, twisty, absorbing work…

Review of The Joneses (2010)

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

Duchovny and Moore have their moments; they're like two preening sharks working on commission…

Review of Black Sea (2009)

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

Many will forgive all the contrivances and a muted ending that doesn't quite come off. It is, after all, a submarine picture…

Review of Black Sea (2014)

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

Many will forgive all the contrivances and a muted ending that doesn't quite come off. It is, after all, a submarine picture…

Review of Still Life (2013)

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

Still Life is a very different story, small and quiet and, unfortunately, airless…

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