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Movie Reviews by Michael Phillips - Page 81 of 132

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Review of Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 15 Nov 2012

Cooper's performance is his best yet. As is Lawrence's (the more crucial role, in fact)…

Review of Holy Motors (2012)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 08 Nov 2012

Lavant is splendid in the film, and he's essentially the entire film - and yet, Holy Motors is somewhat more than a contraption built for a…

Review of Lincoln (2012)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 08 Nov 2012

It blends cinematic Americana with something grubbier and more interesting than Americana, and it does not look, act or behave like the usual…

Review of Skyfall (2012)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 06 Nov 2012

While the protracted third act doesn't kill the two-hour, 23-minute picture, Casino Royale remains the best of the recent Bonds, with Skyfall…

Review of Flight (2012)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 01 Nov 2012

Flight is exciting - terrific, really - because in addition to the sophisticated storytelling techniques by which it keeps us hooked, it doesn't…

Review of Brooklyn Castle (2012)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 01 Nov 2012

See it, and I dare you not to care about what happens to these kids, these Yankees of chess…

Review of Fun Size (2012)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 24 Oct 2012

It's a soul-crusher, and when I say it may be the most dehumanizing experience since Hostel: Part II the comparison is not an idle one…

Review of Cloud Atlas (2012)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 24 Oct 2012

The movie doesn't really work, but it's fascinating in the ways it doesn't…

Review of The Sessions (2012)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 24 Oct 2012

John Hawkes is wonderful as O'Brien, as is Helen Hunt as the surrogate whose sessions with O'Brien form the crux of the film…

Review of Pride & Prejudice (2005)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 23 Oct 2012

At the end, director Wright wraps the whole thing up with a fairy-tale coda more Shakespearean than Austen-tine. Yet it all works…

Review of Hell Ride (2008)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 23 Oct 2012

A whopper this isn't. It's not even a Whopper Junior. It's the paper the Whopper Junior came in…

Review of Alex Cross (2012)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 17 Oct 2012

The sharpest five minutes in Alex Cross, by a considerable margin, belong to Giancarlo Esposito…

Review of Smashed (2012)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 17 Oct 2012

Feels different from most recovering-train-wreck stories…

Review of Miami Vice (2006)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 11 Oct 2012

It's refreshing to hear some old-fashioned percussive tension in service of a director who knows what he's doing…

Review of Seven Psychopaths (2012)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 10 Oct 2012

The result is a clever, violent daydream. But McDonagh's skill behind the camera has grown considerably since In Bruges…

Review of Argo (2012)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 10 Oct 2012

In the populist vein of Ron Howard's Apollo 13, Affleck's rouser salutes the Americans (and, more offhandedly, the Canadians) who restored…

Review of Here Comes the Boom (2012)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 10 Oct 2012

Once it gets going and commits to its time-worn inspirational formula, it's not half-bad…

Review of The Paperboy (2012)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 03 Oct 2012

To say The Paperboy doesn't work is one thing; to say it's dull is a lie. This movie is berserk, which is more interesting than eh…

Review of Frankenweenie (2012)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 03 Oct 2012

The entire project is carefully wrought in visual terms and more than a little familiar…

Review of Taken 2 (2012)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 03 Oct 2012

Revenge is a dish best served cold, as some Albanian dramatist once said, but Taken 2 isn't good-cold, as in steely and purposeful; it's cold…

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