Film Dictionary

Directed by Whit Stillman.

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Edward Norton gives an excellent, Oscar-nominated performance as a young man accused of savagely murdering an archbishop.

Charming little romantic comedy starring Michelle Pfeiffer and George Clooney. Dialogues are weak, but the cast is very strong.

Portrait of an amazing artist.

An American spy pretends to be a Nazi sympatizer. Or is that the other way around ?

Debbie Reynolds is surprisingly sexy and sympathetic playing Albert Brooks' mother.

Superb jazz music greatly enchances this otherwise cliched Robert Altman's film about a kidnapping in Kansas City during mid-term electi...

Overlong (and wildly overrated) film about love and war.

An IMAX 3-D film about the history of New York City. A visually marvelous film.

Testimonies of real-life pedophiles, who had intimate sexual relations with their daughters. Unusual documentary film, very shocking.

A valiant knight (Dennis Quaid) forms an alliance with a brave dragon (voiced by Sean Connery) to defeat an evil king (David Thewlis). It...

Four high-school girls learn about witchcraft and get even with their mean schoolmates.

A film about honor, duty and courage.

There is an intriguing premise (inspired by Luc Besson's "Nikita"), but action scenes are unremarkable. Boring villains.

Sheriff of a small Texas border town investigates a murder that occured almost forty years earlier.

An extremely clever little film about forgery and revenge.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is looking for an elusive Turbo Man in this amusing, fast-paced film about Christmas, toy merchandizing and hero worsh...

A sport agent (Tom Cruise) is fired from his job and falls in love with his secretary (Renee Zellweger).

Herb Gardner's ode to an old Communist (Walter Matthau), still faithful to the cause, still causing trouble, still fighting against oppr...

Yet another film about a white lawyer bravely fighting against racism. But since it's based on a true story, it's arguably less obje...

Didactic, often unnecessarily melodramatic film about a group of black men travelling by bus from Los Angeles to Washington for the Million ...

Funny film about two young girls who kidnap an older woman. One of Scarlett Johansson's first films.

Half an adaptation of Shakespeare's "Richard III", half a documentary about Al Pacino adapting that play. Self-reflexive, but...

An intelligent young man tries to poison people around him.

Nice film about a widow (Gena Rowlands), her two grown-up children and her friends.

A clear rip-off of "Pulp Fiction". Similar violence, similar plot twists, similar sense of humor. All it's lacking is a talent...

An adaptation of one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies.

Young scientists are chasing tornados in Oklahoma.

Michael Lehmann's most conventional film. It's a romantic comedy about two friends, one smart, but plain, the other gorgeous and dum...

Steve Buscemi stars in and directs this bittersweet comedy about a sympathetic looser.

Kevin Costner, Rene Russo and golf.

A film about bachelors in L.A. looking for women.

A very good film about poetry and truth.

The first "Star Trek" feature without the original cast. The magic is gone.

Until the last half an hour, it's a deeply moving, beautiful film about a young girl trying to find her place in the world. Unfortunatel...

"The Boys Of St Vincent On Mean Streets". Sexually abused in a reform school, four friends plot revenge.

Aspiring to be another "Personal Best", the film combines sports with sex. A sado-masochistic angle is mentioned, but never follo...

Mel Gibson plays a millionaire whose son is kidnapped, but who refuses to pay the ransom. Instead, he puts a bounty on the kidnappers' h...

Natalie Portman steals the movie with her touching portrayal of a precocious 13-year old girl who flirts with 29-year old Timothy Hutton. T...

A series of interviews with filmmakers at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Tom DiCillo's broadsides against Quentin ...

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...