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Movie Reviews by Michael Phillips - Page 9 of 132

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Review of Dear Evan Hansen (2021)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 23 Sep 2021

Mainly, the movie we have here reminds us that what works on a stage, within the non-realistic world and performance momentum of stage musicals,…

Review of Cry Macho (2021)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 15 Sep 2021

Cry Macho may be fond and foolish in equal measure, but it has a few grace notes to remember, in addition to a fine gallery of images of Eastwood…

Review of Queenpins (2021)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 09 Sep 2021

As a sort-of-true-crime comedy, spinning a yarn of middle-class larceny and extreme, deeply unlawful couponing, it’s likely to offend no…

Review of The Card Counter (2021)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 08 Sep 2021

As the title character — a professional gambler with a lot behind him, and not much impulse to dredge it up — Oscar Isaac makes for a magnetic…

Review of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 01 Sep 2021

Director/co-writer Destin Daniel Cretton’s film accomplishes something akin to what “Black Panther” accomplished in better times…

Review of Candyman (2021)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 25 Aug 2021

Many will find DaCosta’s take on the story didactic, I suppose, or low on genre payoffs…

Review of The Night House (2021)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 19 Aug 2021

In The Night House, narratively faulty but full of insinuating shivers, Hall once again expands her range…

Review of Reminiscence (2021)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 19 Aug 2021

This one is strictly a welding job, grabbing parts of “Blade Runner,” a bolt and a nut or two from “Vertigo” (though not as much as…

Review of Coda (2021)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 12 Aug 2021

What’s missing are unexpected beats, some rougher edges, a few plot-undependent moments that bring us closer to the way these characters…

Review of CODA (2021)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 12 Aug 2021

What’s missing are unexpected beats, some rougher edges, a few plot-undependent moments that bring us closer to the way these characters…

Review of Respect (2021)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 12 Aug 2021

Respect runs into trouble when its own respect toward Aretha Franklin, the woman who gave us the voice of a century, settles for garden-variety…

Review of Nine Days (2021)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 05 Aug 2021

The movie proceeds in quiet, reflective tones, subtly energized by a fully realized visual environment and a clever variety of editing rhythms…

Review of Annette (2021)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 05 Aug 2021

Yes, the Frenchman Carax’s first film in English isn’t life-affirming so much as it is art-affirming…

Review of The Suicide Squad (2021)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 05 Aug 2021

This one’s good! Also supergory, merrily heartless in its body count and its methods of slaughter. And funny…

Review of Jungle Cruise (2021)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 29 Jul 2021

Blunt’s derring-do has its stray moments, and her comic wiles are most welcome…

Review of Stillwater (2021)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 28 Jul 2021

Stillwater feels like a movie filmed in a slightly blurry state of mind, then reshaped in the editing stage into a whole new blur…

Review of The Green Knight (2021)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 26 Jul 2021

Lowery creates a spiritual cousin to Shakespeare’s Prince Hal, torn between taverns and common folk and his highborn destiny…

Review of Joe Bell (2020)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 23 Jul 2021

There’s a good movie in the story of Joe Bell and Jadin Bell. The good one struggles to emerge from the good try we have here…

Review of Old (2021)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 22 Jul 2021

Is the central hook in “Old” enough? For many, I suspect, the answer will be not quite…

Review of Summertime (2021)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 16 Jul 2021

Director Carlos López Estrada’s Summertime creates a mosaic of pre-COVID Los Angeles (it was filmed in 2019) through words, action, dance…

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