Gene Siskel

Our Flick of the Week is "8 Seconds," which is sweet and tender in ways that current American movies rarely are, as if decency, fidelity and achievement were considered box-office...

Our Flick of the Week is "Blue Chips," a lightweight movie about an important subject in the sports world-illegal payoffs to prospective college athletes. The sport here is college basketball;...

Our Flick of the Week is "Ruby in Paradise," which has been around for a few weeks but is worth singling out for your attention during this holiday season. It's...

Our Flick of the Week is "Dave," a genial comedy about how an Everyman does a better job as President than the elected Chief Executive himself. In other words, this...

Our Flick of the Week is "Bound by Honor," an ambitious but ultimately familiar and repetitive saga of the destructive influences of gangs on the Latino culture. We follow a...

Our Flick of the Week is Spike Lee`s ''Malcolm X,'' which is a great American biography, spanning a quarter century in the life of the constantly evolving African-American leader-from convict...

Our Flick of the Week is ''Of Mice and Men,'' and I`m choosing to focus on it rather than the more publicized ''Glengarry Glen Ross'' and ''Hero,'' also opening this...

Our Flick of the Week is ''One False Move,'' a brilliant detective thriller that comes to town without any hype from a major studio and thus demands to be seen...

Our Flick of the Week is Disney`s highly touted ''Beauty and the Beast,'' which manages to live up to its advance billing. More than just a terrific animated film for...

Our Flick of the Week is ''Billy Bathgate,'' Robert Benton`s film of the E.L. Doctorow novel about a young hanger-on during the transitional gangland era of thug Dutch Schultz and...