Michael Phillips | |
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Born | 1961 (age 63–64) Kenosha, Wisconsin, U.S. |
Occupation | Film critic |
Years active | 1983–present |
Spouse(s) | Ann Jarmusch (divorced)[1] Andrea Lenaburg (divorced)[1] Heidi Stevens[2] |
Children | 3 |
Michael Phillips (born 1961)[3] is an American film critic for the Chicago Tribune newspaper. Previously he was the drama critic of the Tribune; the Los Angeles Times; the St. Paul Pioneer Press; The San Diego Union-Tribune; and the Dallas Times Herald.
Phillips was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and spent most of his early years in Racine. From 2006 through August 2008, he appeared frequently on At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper, first as one of numerous guest critics filling in for the late Roger Ebert while he was on medical leave, and becoming a semipermanent cohost with Richard Roeper in the months before Roeper and Ebert ended their association with the series. On August 5, 2009, Phillips was hired along with New York Times critic A. O. Scott to replace hosts Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz.
More recently Phillips has introduced dozens of films as a guest host of Turner Classic Movies in 2011, 2013, 2016 and early 2017. He appears regularly on the Filmspotting podcast, and hosts a series of programs celebrating movie music titled "The Film Score" for WFMT-FM (98.7).
Top ten lists[]
Each year, Phillips prepares a list of the top ten films of the year. In 2009, he also made a list for the decade.
Year | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | #7 | #8 | #9 | #10 |
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2005 | Capote | King Kong | The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada | Nuit noire 17 octobre 1961 | The 40-Year-Old Virgin | The Squid and the Whale | Junebug | Le Grand Voyage | Pride and Prejudice | Brokeback Mountain |
2006 | Climates | United 93 | Little Children | The Death of Mr. Lazarescu | Letters from Iwo Jima | Borat | The War Tapes | Casino Royale | The Queen | Caché |
2007 | Once | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days | Ratatouille | There Will Be Blood | No End in Sight | Margot at the Wedding | The Bourne Ultimatum | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | Knocked Up and Juno |
2008 | WALL-E | The Class | A Christmas Tale | Let the Right One In | The Flight of the Red Balloon | Alexandra | Man on Wire | Snow Angels | Still Life | The Dark Knight |
2009 | Up | Where the Wild Things Are | Of Time and the City | The Hurt Locker | A Serious Man | Adventureland | A Single Man | Sugar | In the Loop | Me and Orson Welles |
2000s | There Will Be Blood | Ratatouille | Climates | Once | Y Tu Mamá También | Zodiac | United 93 | Mulholland Drive | Gosford Park | Minority Report |
2010 | The Kids are All Right | The Secret in Their Eyes | Boxing Gym | Last Train Home | Greenberg | Carlos | The Social Network | The King's Speech | The Ghost Writer | The Fighter |
2011 [4] | Poetry | Moneyball | Certified Copy | The Descendants | The Interrupters | Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench | A Separation | The Tree of Life | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | Weekend |
2012 [5] | Zero Dark Thirty | Lincoln | Once Upon a Time in Anatolia | The Master | Amour | Chico and Rita | The Color Wheel | Searching for Sugar Man | Flight | Moonrise Kingdom |
2013 [6] | Her | 12 Years a Slave | Consuming Spirits | Stories We Tell | Fruitvale Station | American Hustle | Post Tenebras Lux | Inside Llewyn Davis | Let the Fire Burn | The Gatekeepers |
2014 [7] | Boyhood | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Winter Sleep | Whiplash | The Lego Movie | Listen Up Philip | Force Majeure | Mr. Turner | Dear White People | Heaven Knows What |
2015 [8] | Spotlight | Anomalisa | Love & Mercy | The Diary of a Teenage Girl | Son of Saul | Carol | Beasts of No Nation | Creed | Heart of a Dog | Tangerine |
2016 [9] | Moonlight | La La Land | Manchester by the Sea | Toni Erdmann | O.J.: Made in America | Krisha | The Witch | Hell or High Water | Don't Think Twice | The Fits |
2017 [10] | Lady Bird | A Ghost Story | Get Out | Phantom Thread | Rat Film | Mudbound | Good Time | Raw | The Florida Project | Call Me by Your Name |
2018 [11] | The Rider | Roma | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | The Favourite | Minding the Gap | Widows | First Reformed | Sorry to Bother You | Zama | Black Panther |
2019 [12] | Parasite | Marriage Story | Ash Is Purest White | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | The Irishman | One Child Nation | Waves | Present.Perfect. | The Last Black Man in San Francisco | Little Women |
2020 [13] | Lovers Rock | First Cow | American Utopia | Nomadland | City So Real | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | The Assistant | Mangrove | The Vast of Night | Never Rarely Sometimes Always |
2021 [14] | A Night of Knowing Nothing | The Underground Railroad | Drive My Car | Passing | West Side Story | The Lost Daughter | Licorice Pizza | Summer of Soul | It's a Sin | The Green Knight and The Tragedy of Macbeth |
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Fragoso, Sam (September 13, 2016). "Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso - Episode 24: Michael Phillips". Movie Mezzanine. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
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: - ↑ "'Talking Pictures. Conversations about film, the bad and the beautiful.' by Michael Phillips". Chicago Tribune. August 20, 2010. http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/talking_pictures/. "Your host is Michael Phillips, who was born in the year of 'The Hustler,' 'La Notte' and 'Flower Drum Song.'"
- ↑ "10 best movies of 2011". Retrieved March 21, 2022.
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: - ↑ "Photos: Best movies of 2012". Retrieved March 21, 2022.
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: - ↑ "Photos: Best movies of 2013". Retrieved March 21, 2022.
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: - ↑ "Photos: Best and worst movies of 2014". Retrieved March 21, 2022.
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: - ↑ "Photos: Best movies of 2015". Retrieved March 21, 2022.
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: - ↑ "Michael Phillips reveals the movie triumphs, disasters of 2016". Retrieved March 21, 2022.
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: - ↑ "10 best movies of 2017". Retrieved March 21, 2022.
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: - ↑ "10 best movies of 2018". Retrieved March 21, 2022.
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: - ↑ "The best - and worst - movies of 2019". Retrieved March 21, 2022.
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: - ↑ "Top 10 movies of 2020, from the Chicago Tribune's Michael Phillips". Retrieved March 21, 2022.
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: - ↑ "The Tribune's Top 10 best movies of 2021: You haven't heard of the year's best film. I guarantee it". Retrieved March 21, 2022.
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