Michael Wilmington

The following is a recap of movie critic Michael Wilmington's review of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," which ran in Thursday's Tempo section. Visit metromix.com for the full review. Tim...

"Citizen Kane" kicks off the Outdoor Film Festival in Grant Park on Tuesday. I don't know if an outdoor screen is the ideal setting for taking in Orson Welles' great...

`Pure' (star)(star)(star) Movie dramas about drug addiction sometimes take on a depressing familiarity. But "Pure," a beautifully acted coming-of-age film set in a milieu of lower-class families, drugs and hookers...

A technological marvel of a movie that blows a chance to be much, much more, Steven Spielberg's new film of H.G. Wells' science-fiction classic "War of the Worlds" takes us...

Offhand, you might not think a movie about two women sewing and embroidering clothes together in the French countryside would make much of a movie subject. But "Sequins" may surprise...

Bertha Bay-Sa Pan's "Face," opening for a weeklong run at Facets Multimedia--with special appearances by the writer-director on Friday and Saturday--is an American independent film of unusual subject matter and...

The National Society of Film Critics is a 57-member group comprising critics from major newspapers and magazines across the U.S. Movies and DVD/videos in their first national release (some of...

MOVIES MICHAEL WILMINGTON James Dean Lives The perfect way to observe the 50th anniversary of James Dean's death by Porsche and the release of his first two great movies-- Elia...

NICOLE KIDMAN'S good luck with noses ("Hours"-wise) hasn't entirely vanished. As it turns out, she can crinkle her proboscis as adorably in the new movie "Bewitched" as Elizabeth Montgomery did...

The Canadian documentary "Shake Hands with the Devil" is a closeup look at one of the new century's national tragedies: the genocidal 1994 war in Rwanda. This time we see...