Michael Wilmington

"ANATOMY OF A MURDER"(star)(star)(star)(star) 5:15 p.m., TCM Director Otto Preminger excelled at intellectual thrillers and he's at his peak here in a story of a wily old defense attorney who...

"AS GOOD AS IT GETS" (star)(star)(star) 1/2 6 p.m., FX Jack Nicholson plays an obsessive-compulsive creep of a New York City writer named Melvin Udall, a poison-tongued loner who writes...

(star)(star)(star)(star) 8:30 p.m., TCM A cynical detective named Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) woos a dangerous dish named Brigid O'Shaughnessy (Mary Astor), slaps around a gunsel named Wilmer (Elisha Cook Jr.)...

Here is a recap of what our reviewers said about the five movies nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award. Babel (star)(star)(star)1/2 The latest movie from the incendiary director-writer team...

THEATER - Main-floor tickets to the reputable national touring production of "Twelve Angry Men" (starring Richard Thomas and George Wendt) can be had for $41, in honor of Super Bowl...

We might be all wrong on this: The screenplay of "My Super Ex-Girlfriend" may end up neck-and-neck with "Click," for example. We'll know come Tuesday, when we learn the nominations...

Midway through "Flags of Our Fathers" -- the first of Clint Eastwood's two extraordinary 2006 movies about the Battle of Iwo Jima -- Eastwood re-creates the event at the center...

A comic ode to contemporary Peter Pans, "Things to Do" is a pleasant indie diversion about the vagrant joys of dropping out, wasting time and having fun in your 20s....

The National Society of Film Critics, in a departure from most year-end critics' prizes, named the Spanish language picture "Pan's Labyrinth" best film of 2006 at its 41st annual voting...

Watching the two Maysles brothers documentaries about Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie Beale--the 1976 classic "Grey Gardens" and its 2006 sequel "The Beales of Grey Gardens"--is a bit...