CHICAGO — Well. Goodbye for now. The Tribune has eliminated the position of film critic, as part of a newsroom reorganization. This leaves me with two options: stick around for reassignment or take a ...

The great film critic Michael Phillips joins John Williams to talk about leaving the Chicago Tribune after 24 years. Michael tells John about what his plans are for the future, why it’s a precarious ...

Chicago Tribune columnist Michael Phillips has accepted a buyout from the paper, ending his 20-year run reviewing film and theater. Why it matters: For the first time since the 1950s, the Chicago ...

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I regret reading in last Sunday’s Tribune (“Tribune’s film critic Michael Phillips says so long for now”) that readers will no longer have access to Michael Phillips’ informed movie reviews. No matter ...

In 1975 (that is 50 years ago as of this writing), Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times became the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize. To be clear, the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism itself was ...