Michael Wilmington

This new, brutally compelling Croatian drama about the Serbo-Croatian war is a dark, gloomy thriller about people at the end of their moral tether. Director Vinko Bresan has a penchant...

ART COLLABORATIVE ART "Zhou Brothers: 30 Years of Collaboration," more than 100 large-scale collaborative paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures by the Chicago-based team; through Jan. 2; Chicago Cultural Center, 78...

Howard Hughes--visionary airplane tycoon, unbuttoned movie mogul, insatiable woman-chaser and mad recluse of Las Vegas--is one of the great, wild figures of American history, a fascinating denizen of both America's...

In "Hotel Rwanda," Don Cheadle gives a phenomenal performance as a real-life hero: Paul Rusesabagina, a quiet, meticulous Rwandan hotel manager who, in the face of chaos, became an unlikely...

ARCHITECTURE `ANTONIO GAUDI' The Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St., is screening the 1985 film, "Antonio Gaudi," by Hiroshi Teshigahara. The 72-minute film, which will be shown through...

Forget the dubious pleasures of reality TV. Reality cinema, in many guises and genres, came back strong in 2004. If there was one distinctive element about the films of 2004,...

The best movies are those that open up the heart and stimulate the mind. But what about movies like Zhang Yimou's "House of Flying Daggers," which knock your eyes out...

"Million Dollar Baby"--with Clint Eastwood as director-producer and lead actor--is a pungent boxing drama with a delayed-action wallop. The movie fools you. Starting out as if it were another "Rocky"-style...

Robert Altman's 1978 ensemble comedy-drama had weak reviews and weaker box office, but it was - in retrospect - groundbreaking. Set at a suburban Chicago upper-crust wedding reception - where...

"Ocean's Twelve" isn't necessarily one up on "Ocean's Eleven"--Steven So-derbergh's glossy, amiable all-star 2001 remake of the Frank Sinatra heist thriller--but it doesn't really have to be. Sometimes a movie...