Film Dictionary

Terrible film about a little girl (Mara Wilson) and her fairy godmother (Martin Short).

True story of a Nazi mountain climber who escaped from a British internement camp in India, found refuge in Tibet and befriended the young D...

A goofy computer nerd joins the first manned mission to Mars. This film would have worked better as a parody of "Apollo 13". Inste...

This film tries hard (too hard) to spoof every single James Bond movie, and "Blow Up" (1967) as well. Instead of being funny, it...

Clearly inspired by Kieslowski's "La Double vie de Veronique", only much more bizarre.

A monstruously huge snake attacks a film crew exploring the Amazonian jungle.

French skinhead werewolves, angry at American cultural imperialists and other degenerates, are hunting down Yankee tourists in Paris. One of...

A frienship between two young girls - gay bashing, petty jealousies, lesbian attractions.

A documentary about a guru of the 1960's hippies.

A dog can play basketball! Imagine that. Adult viewers will struggle hard to stay awake, but little tots might eat it up along with their cr...

Matthew Broderick and Meg Ryan play a pair of scheming voyeurs trying to get even with their former partners.

A young lawyer is suing a big insurance company that refused to pay for a bone-marrow transplant for a young boy suffering from leukemia. It...

Everything you never wanted to know about bondage, whipping, dominatrixes, dungeons, sadists, masochists and humiliation. Extremely unpleasa...

Solid, but very predictable thriller about a murder at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC.

Not since the early 80's did Jackie Chan appear in a more incompetently directed, disorganized and cliche-ridden flick. Those who haven...

Moderately entertaining, but hardly memorable, live-action comedy based on the classic UPA cartoons from the 1950's. In those films, Jim...

Wretched and stupid movie about a filthy rodent who makes life miserable for two rather sympathetic (but very dumb) brothers. By comparison,...

The evil warlords from Outworld will take over the Earth unless a band of fearless fighters... You know the drill. Ed Wood could have writ...

This interracial buddy comedy has more clichés than a 19th-century photo camera. It's a "wunza" movie: one's a black stre...

Gross and disgusting horror film about giant bugs in New York City.

Aren't we supposed to live in the age of post-modernist irony, satire and self-reflexivity, where such dead-serious, pompous, self-impor...

A little Jewish boy hides in the ruins of a ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland.

Had this film been made in the late 50's (i.e. at the time its action is set), it would have been a fairly decent soap opera in the ...

Confessions of heroin addicts.

A totally failed attempt to make another "Local Hero".

Story of eight gay men who spend three summer weekends together.

A disaster of apocalyptic proportions.

All the good jokes from this Jum Carrey comedy have already been revealed in the trailer.

A documentary about the tragic events at Waco in 1993. The film tries hard to present David Koresh as an innocent victim, but it only succee...

After the undeserved success of "The Brady Bunch Movie", a big screen adaptation of "Leave It To Beaver" was inevitable....

Black comedy about a terminally ill patient.

William Hurt and Juliette Binoche star in this largely unsuccessful, but ambitious film about a New York psychiatrist and a Parisian woman.

Lame thriller starring Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts.

Ugly and predictable gangster film about betrayal and revenge.

Courtroom comedy starring Michael Richards and Jeff Daniels.

Somewhat baffling documentary about trained circus animals, little mole rats digging their tunnels and robots imitating animal movements.

The script promises a romantic comedy in the vein of "Sleepless In Seattle", but the finished film is an undigestible turkey that ...

Disjointed film about several families and their problems.

It's a sorry spectacle to see Alicia Silverstone's once-promising career crash and burn with this thoroughly wretched movie. She pla...

Documentary about the filming of "Que viva Mexico".

A jaw-droppingly bad rip-off of "Batman" and "RoboCop", with poor Shak sweating it under a suit of armour, fighting agai...

The concept of masculinity is explored in this film set in Alaska.

Two young people fall in love, but their evil friends try to wreck their happiness. Imagine "Booty Call" (hardly a good film to b...

Very disappointing sequel to the 1994 classic.

This film makes "Batman & Robin" look like a masterpiece.

It's basically a soap opera, quite similar to "Waiting To Exhale", but far, far less feminist. In fact, it's quite falloc...

A young couple has to cope with visits to a fertility clinic and mutual suspicions of infidelity. This is a truly atrocious film - sappy, s...

Tatoos, transvestites, lesbian filmmakers...

Predictable thriller about an Irish terrorist (Brad Pitt) and a New York cop (Harrison Ford).

In a post-apocalyptic future, a postman leads a revolt against white-suprematist militia armies. It's a sincere, super-patriotic drama t...

A young woman suspects her husband of cheating on her and ask her family to help her investigate.

This is a feature-length, live-action Road Runner cartoon with four coyotes (actually ultra-cool international spies looking for a secret co...

Tarantino-light, starring David Duchovny as a drug-addicted physician consorting with gangsters.

DreamWorks' first film is a third rate Tom Clancy imitation (minus Harrison Ford), with plenty of gung-ho jingoism and anti-Slavic xenop...

A variation on "Ms 45". Not sleazy enough.

Disgusting film about inbred white trash freaks murdering stray cats and acting like jerks. The less said about this stinking piece of cinem...

Spalding Gray's monologues about his eye problems.

A propaganda film made to convince African-Americans that flipping burgers for a minimum wage can be fun. It's all about a rivalry betwe...

Infantile, but watchable parody of the "Tarzan" movies.

A Jewish woman explores her complex family roots that lead from Poland and Iraq to Israel and Canada.

Brave ecologists try to stop nasty whale hunters from turning Willy into sushi. One almost roots for the villains, if only to kill any chanc...

This documentary about civil rights struggles in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963, was directed by Spike Lee.

A rich couple (Tim Allen and Kirstie Alley imitating Donald and Ivana) hides from the IRS among the Pennsylvania Dutch. This sentimental com...

A watchable remake of the 1961 mini-classic, "The Absent-Minded Professor". Your level of appreciation of this film will be invers...

Undoubtedly the worst of all Batman movies, because it lacks an over-the-top villain like Jocker, Catwoman or Riddler. Instead, we get Alici...

Note to every actor in Hollywood: never, ever work with Kris Kristofferson - there is a curse on him. Nearly all his movies were disasters o...

An out-of-work actress (Darling Narita, an Indie Spirit nominee), repeatedly abused by various slimeballs, finally snaps, ties a lecherous c...

It's not a sequel to "A Fish Called Wanda", but it has the same cast - John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and Michael ...

"Grumpy Old Men" on "The Love Boat" ? Or "The Odd Couple" on "Cruise Control" ? *

Mike Figgis' film about adultery, starring Wesley Snipes, Nastassja Kinski and Robert Downey Jr.

Police corruption in New York City.

A dumb and dull Chevy Chase "comedy". Did that sorry asshole ever made a good film ? If he did, it was a very long time ago.

A young boy finds himself in a strange land.

Three young women and their men/sex/romantic problems. The genesis of this stinking turkey could undoubtedly be traced to a talent-impaired ...

A genie from ancien Persia wrecks havoc in America. An average horror movie, neither scary nor witty, but prepostrously somber and serious. ...

1. ''Breaking The Waves'' (Lars von Trier, UK) 2. "Fargo" (Joel Coen, USA) 3.  "Private Confessions"  ...

"That Thing You Do!" (Tom Hanks, 20th-Fox)

Leck Kwan is the scamiest and vilest gangster in Hong Kong. On a nice day, he will kill a tailor, try to rape his daughter and then sell h...

Directed by Liv Ullmann. With Pernilla August, Max von Sydow and Samuel Froler. The final segment of Ingmar Bergman's trilogy about st...

Brilliant film noir directed by Lana and Lilly Wachowski, back in the days when they were still known as Andy and Larry. But even in 1996, t...

Adapted from Irvine Welsh's 1993 cult novel, ''Trainspotting'' is one of the best films about drug addiction. Starring a...

Tragic life of the Irish national hero.

Take an idea or two from "The X-Files", add a touch of "Twin Peaks", borrow a motif from "The Terminator" an...

Very entertaining adaptation of Jane Austen's greatest novel. Gwyneth Paltrow plays the charming and intelligent heroine, who also happe...

Black comedy about violence through the ages. Fascinating, clever, pitiless film.