Review: ‘Warfare’ is the war movie we need, without the false assurances WATCH
“Warfare’s” mission is 95 minutes of tension and occasional release without conventional catharsis or hooyah triumphalism — and it's better for it.
Michael Phillips
Review: ‘Last Summer’ is a gripping psychosexual triangle WATCH
The first film from Catherine Breillat in a decade, "Last Summer" is a suspenseful, elegantly destabilizing affair between stepmother and stepson.
‘Horizon: Chapter 1’ review: Saddle up for Kevin Costner’s long, loping ride WATCH
“Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1” feels like throat-clearing — a serviceable horse opera overture to a curiously dispassionate passion project.
Review: 'About Dry Grasses' clocks in at 197 minutes — and is worth every single one WATCH
Nuri Bilge Ceylan's latest film, about a schoolteacher in crisis, is beautiful work, and not just because it’s beautiful, writes the reviewer.
‘All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt’ review: An exquisite puzzle of memories WATCH
“All Dirt Roads” is guided, fragment by fragment, by a new director’s way of seeing and listening to a woman’s life — in all its...
‘Bottoms’ review: ‘Fight Club’ meets ‘Heathers’ as jokes and punches fly
One minute the movie is a sincere portrait of a teen friendship. The next? The fists come out (and not just the friends'). "Bottoms" is...
‘The Many Saints of Newark’ review: Prequel delivers for those who want more of Tony Soprano’s world WATCH
This “Sopranos” prequel is worth seeing for the gathering pathos of the central relationship between young Tony (Michael Gandolfini, the son of the late James...
‘The Green Knight’ review: This Camelot fantasy, led valiantly by Dev Patel, creates a magic of its own
Sir Gawain, King Arthur’s nephew (Dev Patel), makes a bargain with the Green Knight, a hulking forest creature, in this ruminative movie that's fully invested...
‘The Godfather’ meets ‘The Parallax View’: Impeachment video asserts power of the authentic image | Michael Phillips / Syndicated columnist
Watching the 13-minute impeachment video, sobering and undeniable in its impact, politics doesn’t seem to be the point. The point — the “how” of it,...