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Movie Reviews by Michael Phillips - Page 63 of 132

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Review of A Coffee in Berlin (2012)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 25 Jun 2014

The film's surprising, enveloping jazz score is often deliberately at odds with Niko's moody outlook…

Review of Think Like a Man Too (2014)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 18 Jun 2014

The sequel is a disappointing step down, and backward…

Review of Jersey Boys (2014)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 18 Jun 2014

Jersey Boys the movie is a different, more sedate animal than Jersey Boys the Broadway musical…

Review of How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 11 Jun 2014

Looks, feels and flows like a real movie…

Review of 22 Jump Street (2014)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 11 Jun 2014

Be sure to hang around for the closing credits, which imagine all sorts of Jump Street sequels to come…

Review of Obvious Child (2014)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 11 Jun 2014

Moment to moment, you believe what's happening in Robespierre's film, which is funny and rueful in roughly equal measure without being despairing…

Review of Inside Job (2010)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 10 Jun 2014

Matt Damon narrates, and I do wish the narration didn't end on such a generalized, throw-the-bums-out note, over footage of the Statue of Liberty…

Review of Crossing Over (2009)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 07 Jun 2014

The movie expresses honest concern for the plight of so many newcomers to America, legal or illegal. What it lacks is moment-to-moment credibility…

Review of College Road Trip (2008)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 06 Jun 2014

As generic as its title, College Road Trip feels like a first draft, the one the studio brings to the rewrite team that, in this case, never…

Review of Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 04 Jun 2014

I'm not sure Edge of Tomorrow holds much repeat viewing potential among teenage movie consumers, since the movie's a self-repeating entity…

Review of The Fault in Our Stars (2014)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 04 Jun 2014

Woodley is an ace at handling laughter through tears — my favorite emotion, as a character in Steel Magnolias once said…

Review of Pineapple Express (2008)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 04 Jun 2014

Around the midpoint, Pineapple Express falls apart and keeps falling, and the comedy, spiced with considerable, unevenly effective violence…

Review of Salt (2010)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 31 May 2014

Like the Bourne franchise to which Noyce's film is indebted, Salt is a combination of pursuit, evasion, name-clearing and a reversal or two…

Review of Black Box (2013)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 28 May 2014

If anything, director Cooper is so intent on portraying Bulger as a man, not a monster, the man comes off a little softer than he was, probably…

Review of A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 28 May 2014

Plenty of comedies aren't funny, but this one is more than that. It's wholeheartedly narcissistic in its portrait of male petulance and self-pity…

Review of Maleficent (2014)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 28 May 2014

This is almost entirely Angelina Jolie's show...this is a performance that goes from point A to point B without seeming rote, or ho-hum…

Review of Four Christmases (2008)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 16 May 2014

As Vaughn's therapist mother, Sissy Spacek comes off best. But she's a rare bird of whom it truly can be said: She's always good…

Review of Chef (2014)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 14 May 2014

Favreau's masterly light touch as an actor hasn't yet translated to a similarly deft offhandedness behind the camera…

Review of Million Dollar Arm (2014)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 14 May 2014

McCarthy is following well-established story grooves here, but scene to scene, he allows the dialogue to breathe and reveal bits of character…

Review of Godzilla (2014)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 13 May 2014

The director thinks visually, which sounds redundant until you realize how many monster movies are flat, effects-dependent factory jobs…

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