Michael Phillips
Three years older than his currently more famous brother, Martin, writer-director John Michael McDonagh shot his debut film feature, "The...
Michael Phillips
Swift and nimble, like the rising ape at its center, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" is gratifyingly free of the usual big-budget...
Michael Phillips
The occasion was a bedroom farce, as they used to call them, from a more buttoned-up era. When the comedy "Any Wednesday" opened on Broadway...
Michael Phillips
"Now that this has happened, what are my options?" Sophie asks her new thrill, Marshall, in "The Future." Sophie's long-term boyfriend,...
Michael Phillips
For the f-word in heavy, conventional rotation, go see "The Change-Up." Which is another way of saying there's not much reason to go see...
Special to the Los Angeles Times
Based on an autobiographical novel by Latif Yahia, an army lieutenant who was forced to become a body double for Saddam Hussein's...
By Sheri Linden, Special to Tribune Newspapers
What makes Johann run? There are no ready answers to that question, no cautionary back story or psychological conjecture in "The Robber,"...
Michael Phillips
"Minority Report"
Laurence Fishburne will edit Superman in “Man of Steel,” TheWrap has confirmed.
Michael Phillips
Wait, cowboys and aliens? In the face of constant, competitive challenges the movie industry clings to a handful of truths, among...
Michael Phillips
In the aggravatingly punctuated romantic comedy "Crazy, Stupid, Love." (can you even believe that period?) does anyone ever discuss...
Michael Phillips
In the low-key black comedy "A Little Help" Jenna Fischer plays a Long Island dental hygienist who likes her Budweisers a little too much,...
By Betsy Sharkey, Tribune Newspapers critic
"Another Earth" is quietly and movingly out of this world.
By Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times Film Critic
"Life in a Day" is like a man-(woman and child)-on-the-street interview gone insanely and inventively viral. Carved out of cyber-reality and...
By Kenneth Turan, Tribune Newspapers critic
"Sarah's Key" is more powerful than you expect, maybe even more powerful than it should be. An emotional detective story based on an...
Nina Metz
A year ago, producer Ridley Scott and director Kevin Macdonald asked anyone with access to a video camera (or even a camera phone) to record...
For decades now, whenever one of my work colleagues put forth a dubious idea or exhibited irrational or violent behavior, I couldn't help...
By Roger Moore, Tribune Newspapers
The low-budget British aliens-invade-the-'hood thriller "Attack the Block" reminded me of Rick's famous line in "Casablanca," his reply when...
By Roger Moore, Tribune Newspapers
There's an image Jenna Fischer has cultivated as the shy, winsome Pam on the long-running TV series "The Office." And even as she breaks...
By Roger Moore, Tribune Newspapers
The good news about the big-screen 3-D version of "The Smurfs" is that it's not the insipid — and some say "socialist" —...
Though no contracts have been signed, buzz surrounding a possible "Sex and the City" prequel is running rampant on celebrity gossip and...
Julia Keller
Backward reels the bad guy, pummeled and stunned. Round goes the good guy's granite fist, finishing its gorgeous orbit after connecting with...
By Geoff Boucher, Tribune Newspapers
In the summer of 1986, Kristin Scott Thomas was poised to make her feature-film debut in "Under the Cherry Moon" opposite Prince when she...
Michael Phillips
In an unhurried, unnamed California town, a teenage boy in pajamas walks to school. He wears pajamas all day, every day. He lives with his...
By Geoff Boucher
Patrick Dempsey sounds like a man coming off a transforming experience. Recently, while driving to the first table read for the...
Michael Phillips
Everything good about "Captain America: The First Avenger," which certainly is the most stylish comics-derived entertainment of the year,...
Nina Metz
A master of mind games, humiliation and passive aggression, a French business exec played by Kristin Scott Thomas in the film "Love Crimes"...
Michael Phillips
Chris Sand, a resident of Dunn Center, N.D., northwest of Bismarck, where he lives in a house he bought for $1,000, goes by the handle...
A rare white horse bred in Illinois will leave home this week to star in a Hollywood picture.
Michael Phillips
Since American media sexualizes almost everything except sex, Hollywood romantic comedies about two people making hey-hey without any big...
Michael Phillips
People ask "What should I see at the movies?" and lately the most reliable answers to that question have come from the documentary genre....
By Mark Caro, Tribune reporter
Just when you thought there were no accomplishments left for Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, here's one:
Michael Phillips
The film version of "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" proceeds as if willed into being by a particularly misguided "question for discussion,"...
By Amy Kaufman, Tribune Newspapers
The eighth and final movie in the "Harry Potter" series raked in a record $168.6 million at the domestic box office in three days, easily...
Michael Phillips
CANNES – Wednesday at the Cannes Film Festival, "Melancholia" writer-director Lars von Trier muttered some wisecracks about Jews and...
Michael Phillips
Just when you thought the objectification of 20th century America's preferred icon of brazen, infantilized female sexuality couldn't go...
Michael Phillips
It has taken Harry Potter eight full-length films to really have it out with Lord Voldemort, the reptilian prince of darkness with the...
By Roger Moore, Tribune Newspapers
"Winnie the Pooh," Disney's latest film revival of A.A. Milne's "willy, nilly, silly old bear," is longer on charm than it is on laughs....
Michael Phillips
Cupid drew a sharply aimed arrow when he spied a South Carolina-born beauty queen and future tabloid superstar named Joyce McKinney, the...
Michael Phillips
Musical groups come together and they come apart, and even the ones that come apart occasionally get back together for gigs and another...
Michael Phillips
The subject of Errol Morris's new documentary, "Tabloid," considers the film a "celluloid catastrophe," as Joyce McKinney — a former...
Nina Metz
In an educational film from 1969 called "Case Study LSD," a pretty blonde is seen partaking in the hallucinogenic drug as groovy psychedelic...
By Chris McNamara, Special to Tribune Newspapers
With the (supposed) final installment of the "Harry Potter" series premiering today, moviegoers will say goodbye to a host of baddies they'...
By Chris McNamara, Special to the Tribune
By now we all know that our fair city gets blown up MICHAEL BAY STYLE in the finale of "Transformers: Dark of the Moon." For Chicago...
Geoff Boucher
Get set for 'extreme cartooning' as Frank Miller's new hero takes on the terrorists.
By John Owens, Tribune reporter
There are more than 175 movies-under-the-stars screenings scheduled for Chicago's parks this summer. Most will feature standard Hollywood...
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