Michael Wilmington

"Or," a harshly realistic film drama about a mother and daughter living on the edge of poverty and prostitution in Tel Aviv, marks the debut of the very promising young...

Piety and organized religion take a real whipping in "School of the Holy Beast," which opens Friday for a weeklong Chicago premiere run at Facets Cinematheque. A high-style, defiantly lewd...

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...

Capsule reviews of movies new to DVD/videos released Tuesday (subject to change by studios): Focus Feature Coach Carter If it didn't actually happen, the story of Ken Carter would seem...

The following recaps Tribune movie critic Michael Wilmington's review of "Batman Begins," which ran in Wednesday's Tempo section. For the full review, visit www.metromix.com. In "Batman Begins," Christian Bale is...

Lucrecia Martel's "The Holy Girl," an Argentinean film that won many critics' hearts at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, takes us into the bodies, souls and minds of a post-pubescent...

Capsule reviews of movies new to DVD/videos released Tuesday (subject to change by studios): Focus Feature Jaws (1975; 30th anniversary edition) OK, ready? Cue up the cello: dum dum, dum...

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie look like they had a terrific time making "Mr. and Mrs. Smith"--but I certainly didn't have a good time watching it. Neither, I suspect, will...

Capsule reviews of movies new to DVD/videos released Tuesday (subject to change by studios): Focus Feature Father of the Bride (1991; 15th anniversary edition) Hey, it's an "anniversary" edition of...

'SKIN'S' MESSAGE IS AFTERMATH OF SEXUAL ABUSE 'MYSTERIOUS SKIN' (STAR)(STAR)(STAR) In "Mysterious Skin," Gregg Araki, director of "The Living End" and "The Doom Generation," plunges us into a world of...