Michael Wilmington

BASIC CABLE "X2: X-MEN UNITED" *** 7 p.m., FX Sometimes sequels really do improve on the originals. "X2: X-Men United" (or "X2") is a much better movie than its 2000...

'Labyrinth' *** Jim Henson -- master of Muppets, family moviemaker extraordinaire and the voice of Kermit the Frog -- left behind a pretty terrific movie/TV legacy. "Labyrinth," which Landmark is...

BASIC CABLE "X-MEN" *1/2 7 p.m., FX A science-fiction film adapted from the popular comic book series about a group of students-turned-mutant superheroes. Gorgeous looking but vapid. With Patrick Stewart,...

'Private Fears in Public Places' **** "Private Fears in Public Places" is a film about love and blunders done from the perspective of age, crafted by writer Alan Ayckbourn, 68,...

"Crazy Love" is a documentary about a mad love affair, a movie that's about as compulsively watchable as a great tabloid headline story is compulsively readable -- and also a...

'Paprika' *** Movies, it's often said, are the art form that most closely suggests the dream state -- and "Paprika" is pretty joyously dreamy and disorienting for much of its...

'Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea' ** 1/2 The Salton Sea is one of the weirder tourist attractions in modern-day California: a vast salt lake that has become an...

Katharine Hepburn, that supreme feisty New England redhead, whose centennial was May 12, is being celebrated this week with a special 100th Anniversary Collection, and though the six films included...

Johnny Depp's famously seductive pirate, Capt. Jack Sparrow, follows in the footsteps of some great movie buccaneers of the past. Here are five: ERROL FLYNN as Dr. Peter Blood in...

'Everything's Gone Green' *** "Everything's Gone Green" is a romantic comedy/social satire that, on a modest budget, manages to be hip, charming, funny and dressed to kill. This movie, in...