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Michael Phillips

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Eephus (2024)
Publish Date: March 19, 2025
"A sweet, sidewinding paradox of a sports movie: sentimental in a quietly unsentimental and offhandedly comic fashion (...) Rating: *** (out of 4)"

Chicago Tribune
Snow White (2025)
Publish Date: March 18, 2025
"This works better than you might think. (...) Director Marc Webb moves it along, with a rock-solid lead, very well sung, courtesy of Rachel Zegler. (...) Rating: **1/2 (out of 4)"

Chicago Tribune
No Other Land (2024)
Publish Date: February 4, 2025
"Its images may sound familiar, or even shameless, or manipulative? And yet they aren’t; there is tact and a humane perspective at work (...) Rating: **** (out of 4)"

Chicago Tribune
One of Them Days (2025)
Publish Date: January 14, 2025
"Palmer delivers an on-the-fly masterclass in overlapping comic skills, sometimes heightened, sometimes subtle and heartfelt (...) Rating: *** (out of 4)"

Chicago Tribune
In the Summers (2024)
Publish Date: September 26, 2024
"A modest but sure collection of tangled memories, dramatized (...) Rating: *** (out of 4)"

Chicago Tribune
All Happy Families (2023)
Publish Date: September 23, 2024
"With actors as good as Becky Ann Baker co-writer and director Haroula Rose’s second feature keeps one foot in easygoing naturalism (...) Rating: **1/2 (out of 4)"

Chicago Tribune
Good One (2024)
Publish Date: August 22, 2024
"'Good One' catches fragments of a lifetime in a sentence or two (...) Rating: ***1/2 (out of 4)"

Chicago Tribune
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger (2024)
Publish Date: July 24, 2024
"An elegant and eloquent love letter from one master filmmaker to two of his prized idols (...) Rating: ***1/2 (out of 4)"

Chicago Tribune
Touch (2024)
Publish Date: July 10, 2024
"The movie glides along, handsomely (...) Rating: **1/2 (out of 4)"

Chicago Tribune
Inside Out 2 (2024)
Publish Date: June 12, 2024
"A good, solid sequel, and without the dubious dramatics of the first movie’s climax. (...) Rating: *** (out of 4)"

Chicago Tribune
Ghostlight (2024)
Publish Date: June 12, 2024
"A tender comedy-drama from some of Chicago's finest (...) Rating: *** (out of 4)"

Chicago Tribune
Gasoline Rainbow (2023)
Publish Date: May 18, 2024
"See it, and see what you make of this new and quite wonderful example of this in-between cinematic tradition (...) Rating: ***1/2 (out of 4)"

Chicago Tribune
The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (2023)
Publish Date: May 2, 2024
"Some films are destined for nervous laughter, with enough of a pungent aftertaste to linger. This is one of them (...) Rating: *** (out of 4)"

Chicago Tribune
We Grown Now (2023)
Publish Date: April 17, 2024
"Smollett and Merkerson could scarcely be better; there's not a single forced moment between them (...) Rating: ***1/2 (out of 4)"

Chicago Tribune
The First Omen (2024)
Publish Date: April 3, 2024
"It’s a movie that maximizes all its elements with some panache. (...) with a visual confidence and personality of its own. (...) Rating: *** (out of 4)"

Chicago Tribune
Ennio: The Maestro (2021)
Publish Date: March 27, 2024
"It's not a short film, at roughly two and a half hours. It's also so rich in its detail, and sheer musical variety, you're grateful for the excess (...) Rating: ***1/2 (out of 4)"

Chicago Tribune
Frida (2024)
Publish Date: March 17, 2024
"Despite its busyness, 'Frida' sincerely embraces Kahlo the woman, as well as Kahlo the legend in the making (...) Rating: *** (out of 4)"

Chicago Tribune
Madame Web (2024)
Publish Date: February 12, 2024
"[It] is the first Marvel-affiliated movie for which I feel truly sorry. Most of its problems are quality-related (...) The action’s not much; the acting’s minimalist bordering on somnambulant (...) Rating: *1/2 (out of 4)"

Chicago Tribune
Last Things (2023)
Publish Date: January 23, 2024
"I love the avenues of exploration going on in 'Last Things', and how this filmmaker finds as much to see in break dancers on a city street, beautifully edited (...) Rating: **** (out of 4)"

Chicago Tribune
The Book of Clarence (2024)
Publish Date: January 10, 2024
"Does it work? I’d say no, and sort of, and in the end, almost (...) Rating: **1/2 (out of 4)"

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