Film Dictionary

Virtually a remake of "The Postman Always Rings Twice" with a large dose of "Oedipus Rex" thrown in for good measure.

Documentary about the inventor of the geodesic dome.

A pointless sequel to "Terms Of Endearment" (1983). Miranda Richardson steals the movie from Shirley MacLaine.

John Travolta plays an angel.

Disappointing film starring Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny.

Gangster film about three brothers (Christopher Walken, Chris Penn and Vincent Gallo).

Three scorned women (Bette Midler, Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn) get even with their ex-husbands. This film manages to be both pro-feminist and...

Routine thriller about a medical conspiracy.

Pirotechnically impressive, but otherwise extremely mediocre film with Sylvester Stallone rescuing people from a collapsed Holland Tunnel un...

Directed by Kelly Cauthen. With Gabriella Hall and Cheryl Bartel. Young women agree to pose nude for men's magazines in order to further...

Boring, unpleasant and badly made film starring Jim Carrey as a crazy cable guy who stalks Matthew Broderick.

Three young boys meet a mysterious fugitive (Chris Penn).

Experimental film about a US Marine killing his wife. Horribly boring, very pretentious and completely pointless.

Film about the famous painter.

Documentary film about Al Goldstein, publisher of a porno mag and host of a raunchy TV show.

A Euro-trash bore. Bertolucci's worst film.

Vigilante justice is condoned in this rather irresponsible (though well directed) film.

A very bad sequel.

Anne Heche and Catherine Keener stars in this slow-moving slice-of-life drama about friendship and love.

Renee Zellweger stars as a girlfriend of a comic book author from Texas.

An adaptation of Henry James' novel about a rich American woman (Nicole Kidman) who marries an evil European man (John Malkovich).

A pointless live-action remake of the 1961 Disney animated classic, directed by Stephen Herek. The story is virtually identical - Cruella D...

Eddie Murphy just isn't funny anymore.

Experimental film about an American man and a French woman who travel across America and get married in Las Vegas.

This film is so incredibly bad, it makes "Independence Day" look like a great masterpiece. It even makes "Plan 9 From Outer S...

An annual reunion of a family of actors.

A comedy about bowling. Often gross, but even more often boring.

Three Holocaust survivors talk about their lives.

Spike Lee is capable of the best ("Do The Right Thing", "Jungle Fever") and the worst ("School Daze", "Cl...

Two ferocious lions are hunted by two Great White Hunters (Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer).

Family drama about love, sacrifice and egoism.

Friendships among teenage girls.

Action flick about friendship and betrayal.

After a celebration of the French cuisine in Denmark (1987's "Babette's Feast"), Japanese noodle soups (1988's "T...

Bad movie about a werewolf.

1.  "Get Shorty"  (Barry Sonnenfeld, USA) 2. ''Underground'' (Emir Kusturica, Yugoslavia) 3. "The Usual Su...

"Muthu" (K.S. Ravikumar, India)

At the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, the unbearably pretentious Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopulos made quite an ass of himself when he angrily c...

Intricately plotted gangster film about a mysterious crime lord named Keyser Soze.

Horrifying film about a serial killer. Stylishly directed by David Fincher. Aka "Se7en".

Japanese hentai at its best. It consists of 11 "operations". "Operation" 3 is divided into 3 episodes: "Lover Doll...

Brilliant black comedy about a Miami gangster who wants to become a Hollywood producer.

Excellent sci-fi thriller starring Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe and Brad Pitt. It presents a genuinely frightening vision of the future.

Nicole Kidman is terrific in this black comedy about an ambitious woman who gets away with murder. Or does she? The last image gives ...

A stubborn little girl wants to buy a goldfish, but she encounters countless obstacles on her way to the market. A simple, quiet masterpie...

Stylistically, this is one of the greatest animated films ever made. Edward Summer called it "a modern reinterpretation of Persian de...

A superlative adaptation of Jane Austen's first novel. Witty, moving and very well made.

This is the most gorgeous looking of all Wong Kar-Wai's films - and that's saying something. It's a veritable orgy of wide-ang...