Michael Wilmington

"Blood Diamond" is a visually sumptuous, bullet-train-paced thriller with a really provocative theme. Director Edward Zwick and company give it just the kind of explosive elements it needs to hook...

Who's in it: Jim Verraros, Emily Brooke Hands, Rebekah Kochan, Brett Chukerman, Marco Dapper, Scott Vickaryous What it's about: After Kyle's (Verraros) boyfriend, Marc (Chukerman), skips out on him, Kyle...

Werner Herzog's "Aguirre, the Wrath of God"--playing at the Music Box Theatre in a new 35 mm print--is a great, mad masterpiece about a great, mad expedition by a splinter...

If you can swallow one of the most elaborate and absurd time-machine gimmicks imaginable, you can have a good time at "Deja Vu," the new Denzel Washington movie and the...

The following is a recap of Tribune movie critic Michael Wilmington's review of "The Fountain," which ran in Wednesday's Tempo section. For the full review, visit metromix.com. Darren Aronofsky's "The...

Good and evil are sometimes more promiscuously linked than we realize--until it's too late. In "Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple," producer-director Stanley Nelson tells a story of...

"Sweet Land" is a sometimes elegiac, sometimes joyous movie about an immigrant couple in the Midwestern farm belt in the 1920s and what happens to them during a time of...

"Old Joy" is a lovely film about two old friends who get together for an outing in the Cascade Mountains, east of Portland, Ore. Though at one time they were...

"Venus" (star)(star)(star)1/2 (U.K., Roger Michell; 1:35) Peter O'Toole hasn't lost his touch. In "Venus," a stirring new film from director Roger Michell ("Notting Hill") and writer Hanif Kureishi ("My Beautiful...

Pick of the day "Son of Man" (star)(star)(star) (Mark Dornford-May, South Africa; 1:26) Take the story of Jesus and set it in the present-day (fictional) war-torn African Kingdom of Judea,...