Michael Wilmington

BASIC CABLE "BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID" (star)(star)(star)1/2 8:15 a.m., AMC One '60s western that nearly everyone likes is this affable, picaresque tale of two charming outlaws on the...

"Two or Three Things I Know About Her" is one of the most beautiful films of the young Jean-Luc Godard, a great French cineaste, poet and frustrated lover. All of...

"COOL HAND LUKE" (star)(star)(star)1/2 7 p.m., AMC It's based on a novel by a real chain-gang inmate -- Donn Pearce -- but the (1967) movie itself often seems slick and...

"BEETLE JUICE" (star)(star)(star) 1/2 7 p.m., FAM Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis have the perfect, bucolic small-town life -- until they die. Their sadness at being suddenly immaterial is compounded...

PREMIUM CABLE `FOUR BROTHERS' (star)(star)1/2 7 p.m., Showtime Director John Singleton and a good cast do what they can with a hokey tale owing much of its ethos to the...

"CAST AWAY" (STAR)(STAR)(STAR) 1/2 7 p.m., WLS-Ch. 7 Tom Hanks is profound in his portrayal of a systems engineer who becomes the sole survivor when his plane goes down in...

Hard-core Oscar-watchers will get a chance to prescreen almost all of this year's nominees in the "best live action short film" and "best animated short film section" when the Music...

"CRASH" (star)(star)(star) 1/2 6 p.m., SHO The feature directorial debut of "Million Dollar Baby" screenwriter Paul Haggis is an intricate, explosive ensemble crime drama set in a modern L.A. pressure...

"Waterworld" (star) 7 p.m., Bravo "Waterworld" has been described as a sea-based "Mad Max," but it has none of the funky joy of that futuristic production. Instead, Kevin Costner (above...

"JAWS" (star)(star)(star)(star) 8 p.m., SCI FI Steven Spielberg's gripping monster-shark thriller combines sunny adventure and blood-freezing thrills; the all-time box-office champ up to 1975, it also helped change the industry...