Mykelti Williamson

Michael Mann opens ``Ali" with an invigorating burst of music and images, bouncing through the early years of Cassius Clay, as a surrogate Sam Cooke rocks out ``(Don't Fight It) Feel It" and Will Smith rockets through a fusillade on a speed bag. With...

With kindly and wicked monsters already on hand, and wizards young and old in the wings, fantasy rules in a holiday season shadowed by persistent mourning and pervasive fears. What better time for flying brooms and an all-powerful ring? The end-of-year...

2½ stars (out of 4) In "The Assassination of Richard Nixon," Sean Penn plays a Dostoyevskian Everyman, a hapless would-be presidential killer sinking into a purgatory of futility, madness and delusions of sick grandeur. It's a tribute to Penn's talent...

Friday June 6, 1997      "Con Air" is a big, loud, noisy movie made with almost scientific precision for people who like big, loud, noisy movies. Numbing but not boring, it's finally more dispiriting than exhilarating, like a wild night of debauchery...

Friday May 2, 1997      "Truth or Consequences, N.M." takes us down a familiar killers-on-the-run road only to swerve in enough unexpected directions to make it a fresh, exciting and thoroughly involving thriller. It's a strong first directorial outing...

Friday December 22, 1995      Gorgeous stars, drop-dead clothes, glamorous settings: "Waiting to Exhale" has all the trappings of a lush, old-fashioned romantic melodrama, the kind of classic "women's picture" that used to appear periodically in the...