Michael Wilmington

Love affairs and theatrical productions can have a lot in common, with their fond illusions and hard truths--and their dependency on the brilliant interactions of the players. Few directors are...

Thanksgiving can mean one thing to a child, another to a movie critic. When I was young, growing up in the tiny village of Williams Bay on Lake Geneva, Wis.,...

Wild ambition and great achievement sometimes carry the seeds of their own destruction--a proposition that is both the central subject and dangerous temptation of Oliver Stone's vast, riveting, madly audacious...

What price sexual candor? "Kinsey" gives us a few notions. This hip, highly partisan biography of Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey is a surprisingly entertaining movie about the perils of studying...

"Finding Neverland" is a limpidly emotional heart-tugger about the pleasures and tragedies of eternal youth, as imagined and lived by James M. Barrie, the man who wrote "Peter Pan." This...

ART `A PERFECT UNION . . . MORE OR LESS' A group show of contemporary work on democracy; opens Sunday; Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, 5811 S. Ellis...

The following is a recap of movie critic Michael Wilmington's review of "The Polar Express," which ran in Wednesday's Tempo section. For the full review, visit www.metromix.com: Director/co-writer Robert Zemeckis'...

ART CAPITAL PUNISHMENT "Premeditated: Meditations on Capital Punishment," paintings and prints by Malaquias Montoya dealing with the death penalty; final week; Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, 1852 W. 19th St.;...

Gliding us softly into a psychotic borderland where love, hate, death and sex wildly embrace and merge, "Enduring Love"--which stars Rhys Ifans and Daniel Craig as a bizarre but believable...

ART CAT CHOW "The Interpretation of Seams: Works by Cat Chow," a Chicago artist shows wearable art made from non-traditional materials; opens Thursday; Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, 425 Fawell...