Michael Wilmington

Who can really gauge what steals or breaks a heart, either in movies or in life? Richard Linklater's Before Sunset," a film of luminous delights, is the sequel to one...

Movie sequels have a deservedly terrible reputation -- but in fact, there are a few comic book-derived superhero movies that, like "Spider-Man 2," are pleasant surprises -- some even better...

ART IAN HAMILTON FINLAY: `VESSELS' Objects and words that testify to the classical sensibility of one of the veteran mavericks in contemporary art; through July 16; Arts Club of Chicago,...

'White Chicks' (star)1/2 In this goofy movie, director-writer Keenen Ivory Wayans asks us to believe that Marcus and Kevin Copeland (actor-writers Marlon and Shawn Wayans), two accident-prone African-American FBI agents,...

"The Notebook," the movie version of Nicholas Sparks' 1996 bestseller, may be corny, but it's also absorbing, sweet and powerfully acted. It's a film about falling in love and looking...

Among the movies everyone should see this year--whatever your film taste or your political bent--Michael Moore's incendiary documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" heads the list. "Fahrenheit" may provoke, delight or divide its...

ARCHITECTURE GIO PONTI An exhibition about the impact of pioneering Italian industrial designer and architect Gio Ponti, which includes vintage Ponti office furniture and photographs of Ponti's Pirelli Tower in...

Few movie genres are more prone to sentiment and artificial uplift than the domestic drama or film romance. But "The Mother" is a soap opera with guts; it's a movie...

Steven Spielberg's new movie "The Terminal" is a shining big-studio gem with a not-too-catastrophic flaw. This lovable but over-stretched charmer--with star Tom Hanks playing Viktor Navorski, a good-hearted Eastern European...