Michael Wilmington

Success and longevity can eventually turn any movie star's frowns into smiles--even if the frowns are what made them famous. Ice Cube, one-time hard-case rapper and hip-hop revolutionary of N.W.A.,...

The following is a recap of movie critic Michael Wilmington's review of "Assault on Precinct 13," which ran in Wednesday's Tempo section. "Assault on Precinct 13," the story of an...

Just as paintings depend on love and occasional restoration to keep them alive, so movies about painters--not exactly the most commercially potent of genres--need loving care as well. Peter Watkins'...

ARCHITECTURE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL ILLUSTRATORS The annual exhibition of the American Society of Architectural Illustrators opens Wednesday at the Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago, 350 N. Orleans St. The show...

"Elektra," with Jennifer Garner back as the fiery martial arts queen from "Daredevil," is a spectacular comic book heroine movie that quickly turns into a spectacular dud. Marvel Studios, movie...

Who's in it: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Don Cheadle, Jack Thompson What it's about: This is the real-life story of Sam Bicke (Penn), a loser of a furniture salesman living...

In "The Woodsman," a sometimes gripping drama about a convicted sex criminal re-entering society, Kevin Bacon captures the haunted, burned-out look of a man who has given up on life,...

There are a lot of things to admire in Kevin Spacey's bio-movie on pop giant Bobby Darin, the gutsy-but-fragile New York street kid who sailed off into the '60s pop...

Since 1993, in every year but one, I've published two "10 Best Movies" lists. The first--which this year had "The Aviator," "Sideways," "House of Flying Daggers" and several others--ran in...

Stark reality and lurid melodrama lock in a wild embrace in the fascinating but flawed "The Other World," the latest film by gifted Algerian filmmaker Merzak Allouache. Technically and stylistically,...