Gene Siskel

Our Flick of the Week is Mike Leigh's stunning "Secrets and Lies," which gains remarkable power from a dramatically told simple truth -- that life is much easier to live...

Our Flick of the Week is "Sleepers," a "Mean Streets" wannabe that is intellectually soft in its portrayal of male bonding in a tough New York neighborhood in the 1960s....

Our Flick of the Week is "The Chamber," the new John Grisham thriller about a young lawyer trying to save his racist, convicted-felon grandfather from being executed by the state....

On Dennis Rodman's future: Siskel: Phil, you're going to be asked your advice on the re-signing of Dennis Rodman. I believe the Bulls would like to go no more than...

Our Flick of the Week is "Mission: Impossible," with Tom Cruise again in the role (see also "Top Gun," "Cocktail," "Days of Thunder") of a reckless hotshot whose enthusiasm gets...

Our Flick of the Week is "Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls," which again proves that even loudmouth comic Jim Carrey needs a decent script to do his best work. His...

Our Flick of the week is Kathryn Bigelow's "Strange Days," another doom-and-gloom futuristic piece set in an apocalyptic Los Angeles in the last days of 1999. I don't know about...

Our Flick of the Week is "Unzipped," a marvelous documentary about the fashion industry that accomplishes everything Robert Altman's "Ready to Wear" failed to achieve last year. By following hot...

It would be difficult to pick the biggest surprise in Peter Chelsom's wonderful "Funny Bones." But, if pressed, my choice would have to be that it's so serious about laughing...

Thumbs up, down, and in our eyes in '94: Actor of the Year: Omigod, it's a tie-Tim Robbins ("The Hudsucker Proxy," "The Shawshank Redemption" and "I.Q.") and Nicolas Cage ("Red...