At the beginning of Mike Mills' gorgeous new movie “C’mon C’mon” — part scripted drama, part documentary as the film’s actors interview real subjects — Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) asks a teenage girl how ...

Mike Mills’ C’mon C’mon exists in a world that might have made sense in a screenplay but doesn’t translate to the screen. At its heart, it’s meant to be -- I believe -- an intimate and emotional ...

Mills and Hoffmann discuss what they learned from young actor Woody Norman and how Mills convinced Phoenix to play the main character. By Beatrice Verhoeven Awards Editor Mike Mills’ black-and-white ...

I went to Mike Mill's bungalow in L.A.'s Echo Park neighborhood to ask him about what I think is the most public radio movie ever. Long before I reached his house, I had my headphones on, my ...

Not since Disney’s Brother Bear (2003) has Joaquin Phoenix appeared in a movie so genuinely wholesome and light-hearted as Mike Mills’ C’mon, C’mon this holiday season. A decade ago I never would have ...

On a recent phone call, filmmaker Mike Mills started to explain why he wanted to work with Phoenix on his new family drama "C'mon C'mon" when the actor politely but firmly cut him off. "OK, all right, ...

If you’ve had the opportunity to meet Mike Mills, it’s pretty obvious he’s the sort of filmmaker who naturally makes his sets a joyful experience for everyone involved. His latest endeavor, “C’mon ...

Mike Mills' two previous films, 'Beginners' and '20th Century Women,' were also semi-autobiographical; they resulted in a best supporting actor Oscar win for Christopher Plummer and a best original ...

If Joaquin Phoenix had failed to turn up in an artfully dishevelled beard, director Mike Mills’s fourth feature would still easily qualify as his shaggiest to date. A hipster reworking of Uncle Buck ...

It’s not a holiday movie by most definitions. But “C’mon C’mon” makes for ideal holiday theatergoing, as long as going to a theater’s in your pandemic wheelhouse. It’d be compatible on a double bill ...

The first thing that is clear about Mike Mills’ C’mon C’mon is the fact Joaquin Phoenix is delivering another low-key marvel of a performance. The second thing is that Phoenix, arguably one of the ...