Michael Wilmington

Who's in it: Annette Bening, Shaun Evans, Jeremy Irons, Bruce Greenwood, Juliet Stevenson, Michael Gambon What it's about: When fading screen star Julia learns that her young lover is more...

Shane Carruth's "Primer," an amateur low-budget indie with a higher-than-usual I.Q., takes a classic science fiction theme--the time travel story--and warps it into the "inner space" computer age. A prize...

"Reconstruction" is a drenchingly romantic Danish love story with a ravishing Swedish-Norwegian star, Marie Bonnevie, and one of those slightly Kafkaesque plots where a character's world disintegrates around him. The...

A likably offbeat family comedy from a prize-winning all-female Spanish writer-director team, Ines Paris and Daniela Fejerman, "My Mother" has a subject that at first sounds incendiary: the varying reactions...

When you play a genius on screen, you better have the right stuff yourself, or the camera will shrivel you. That doesn't happen in "Ray." In this triumphant musical movie-bio,...

ART CHICAGO ART OPEN Works by 311 midcareer and emerging artists; closes Sunday; National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum, 1801 S. Indiana Ave.; $6; 312-670-2060. FEMININE ABSTRACTS "Air, Earth, Water: Feminine...

'Stage Beauty" is a rich, shining valentine to the British theater and the eternal joys of Shakespeare, a movie drama about sex roles and backstage romance that left me smiling,...

A fine memorial for its late star, the gruffly memorable New York tough guy actor Victor Argo ("Mean Streets"), and an impressive demonstration of the pictorial qualities of modern videography,...

John Greyson's "Proteus" is a period gay tragic romance, a well-made, well-intentioned film that ought to break your heart, whether straight or gay, but doesn't. That's unfortunate: a waste of...

Watching Jonathan Caouette's amazing autobiographical documentary "Tarnation" is like descending into a pop-music, underground-movie hell and heaven, the shattered and shattering landscape of a living body and mind. It's a...