Michael Wilmington

"Shall We Dance?" is a well-meaning but overdressed Americanization of the charming 1996 Japanese romantic comedy about a repressed Tokyo businessman who blossoms at a local dance school. And it...

ARCHITECTURE NEIL HARRIS U. of C. historian NeilHarris will discuss Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett's influential Chicago Plan of 1909 on Thursdayat 6 p.m. in Fullerton Auditorium at the Art...

The 40th edition of the Chicago International Film Festival, running through the grand finale on Oct. 21, brings a smorgasbord of films, 109 features and 54 shorts, from 44 nations....

ARCHITECTURE HELMUT JAHN Chicago architect Helmut Jahn, the designer of such notable buildings as the State Street Village dormitories at the Illinois Institute of Technology, speaks on "Built and Unbuilt:...

Shark Tale is a sprightly, funny DreamWorks feature cartoon about a Cosa Nostrafied underwater world that pits the little fishes--Will Smith's Oscar and Renee Zellweger's Angie--against a shark Mafia run...

It was a movie conceived, in large part, as a love offering from a husband to his wife. But it was born in suffering and it grew into something else:...

ARCHITECTURE A CENTURY OF PROGRESS A new exhibition on Chicago's Depression-era world's fair, "A Century of Progress: Architecture and Chicago's 1933-34 World's Fair," appears at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224...

Director James Toback shows us some seamier sides of New York City's wealthy upper crust in "When Will I Be Loved," a crime-romance about callous rich kids and soulless hustlers....

Justly celebrating the 50th anniversary of a still volatile and alive American movie masterpiece, the Music Box Theater on Friday starts a weeklong run of a new print of director...

In "Wimbledon," Paul Bettany and Kirsten Dunst play professional tennis players who fall in love at Britain's Wimbledon tennis tournament--but are foiled, at least temporarily, by tyrannical parents, mean opponents...