Michael Wilmington

'Sacco and Vanzetti' *** Nicola Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, and the incredible firestorm of protest and outrage generated in the 1920s by their celebrated criminal trials have been largely neglected in...

PREMIUM CABLE "FIND ME GUILTY" *** 11 p.m., STARZ One of the oddest films of last year, director Sidney Lumet's courtroom seriocomedy stars Vin Diesel as Jackie Dee DiNorscio, a...

BASIC CABLE "THE HUSTLER" **** 9 p.m., TCM Nobody can play arrogant and scared like Paul Newman. Nobody besides Jackie Gleason could've played Minnesota Fats. Nobody could bellow about someone...

PREMIUM CABLE "THE 40 YEAR-OLD VIRGIN" *** 1/2 5:15 p.m., 12:05 a.m., MAX Raunchy yet very sweet, this Steve Carell comedy (he co-wrote and stars) was an enormous summer hit...

BASIC CABLE "A FACE IN THE CROWD" **** 8:45 p.m., TCM After their 1954 classic "On the Waterfront," director Elia Kazan and writer Budd Schulberg reteamed for this robust, psychologically...

PREMIUM CABLE "KINGDOM OF HEAVEN" *** 1/2 7 p.m., HBO2 Based on a lesser-known episode of the Crusades, Ridley Scott's 2005 film traces the rise of a French knight (Orlando...

BASIC CABLE "TO CATCH A THIEF" **** 3 p.m., TCM One of Alfred Hitchcock's most entertaining comedy thrillers. Set on the Riviera, adapted by John Michael Hayes from David Dodge's...

BASIC CABLE "A RAISIN IN THE SUN" (star)(star)(star)1/2 7 p.m., TCM From 1961, a very fine and strongly acted, if somewhat stagebound, adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's great, moving African-American family...

BASIC CABLE "PAT AND MIKE" (star)(star)(star) 5:15 p.m., TCM It's not up to "Adam's Rib," but as far as we know, "Adam's Rib" isn't on this week. The eternally cherce...

PREMIUM CABLE "MYSTIC RIVER" (star)(star)(star)(star) 6:30 p.m, MAX Director Clint Eastwood's powerful 2003 "Mystic River" takes us on a voyage almost to the end of the night. Based on the...