Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The idea for “C’mon, C’mon” started with a mythic image that writer-director Mike Mills couldn’t shake. In his mind, he saw an ...

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 ...

Imagine growing up at the end of times, on a tattered planet suffocating under ceaseless environmental mayhem and the putrid fumes of socioeconomic injustice. That today’s children and teenagers, ...

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 ...

C’mon C’mon (2021) Film Review, a movie directed by Mike Mills and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Gaby Hoffmann, Woody Norman, Scoot McNairy, Molly Webster, Jaboukie Young-White, Deborah Strang, Jenny ...

The Academy Award-winning actor gives a strong and very personal performance in the heart-warming new film from the writer and director of ‘Beginners.’ ‘C’mon C’mon’ stars Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny, ...

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 ...

Joaquin Phoenix has never been more engaging than he is in "C'mon C'mon." The four-time Oscar nominee (and one-time winner, for his deeply affected turn in 2019's chilling "Joker") is at his warmest ...

Phoenix plays a radio journalist who bonds with his kid nephew in Mills' latest movie about life's intangibles. The only fundamental difference here is just a matter of who’s doing the imagining.

This story about “C’mon, C’mon” first appeared in a feature about black-and-white cinematography in the Below-the-Line Issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine. The idea for “C’mon, C’mon” started with a ...

This review was first published on Sept. 8, 2021, following its premiere at Telluride. Imagine growing up at the end of times, on a tattered planet suffocating under ceaseless environmental mayhem and ...