Michael Phillips is one of the most popular and richest Celebrity who was born on March 11, 1961 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States. He rated Capote, which starred Philip Seymour Hoffman, as his number one movie of 2005.
Each year, Phillips prepares a list of the top ten films of the year. In 2009, he also made a list for the decade.
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.
He had three children with his wife Heidi.
After Ebert and Roeper left At the Movies, he and A.O. Scott were hired to take over the show, but it only lasted about a year.
Michael Phillips (born 1961) 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.
