Jessica Reaves

'Evening' *** Watching a movie based on a familiar book can be bewildering, even distracting, when pivotal characters are purged, key plot points bypassed and settings and themes blithely cast...

PREMIUM "STICK IT" (star)(star) 8 p.m., STARZ Not as clever as "Bring It On," this music video-style feature about gymnastics camp is mildly entertaining and will prove enormously popular with...

PREMIUM "MAD HOT BALLROOM" (star)(star)(star)1/2 6 p.m., SHO A compulsory ballroom dancing course introduced a decade ago in New York City's public schools becomes a documentary triumph for first-time filmmakers...

PREMIUM CABLE "SOMETHING NEW" (star)(star)(star) 1:30 p.m., HBO A smart take on romantic comedy with Sanaa Lathan as a successful accountant searching for the Ideal Black Man until she meets...

Here is a recap of what our reviewers said about the five movies nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award. Babel (star)(star)(star)1/2 The latest movie from the incendiary director-writer team...

`We Are Marshall' (star)(star)(star) An unexpectedly rewarding take on the 1970 plane crash that killed the Marshall University football team, and the coach who was determined to rebuild the team....

Let's be perfectly frank: When you're the star running back for powerhouse Wheaton Warrenville South and you've just smashed Red Grange's 85-year-old school record for career touchdowns (75 vs. 87+),...

What it's about: The documentary looks at the anti-Semitic undercurrents in Europe's governments and traces the parallel paths of the continent's most ruthlessly anti-Semitic populations: fundamentalist Muslims and neo-Nazis. Worth...

This benign, if unnecessary, addition to the holiday movie genre has little to recommend it. Matthew Broderick plays Steve Finch, an optometrist in the idyllic hamlet of Cloverdale, Mass., where...

Emilio Estevez's directorial debut is a kaleidoscopic, scattered and compelling chronicle of the night Robert Kennedy was killed. Estevez unravels the evening through the eyes of two dozen seemingly unrelated...