Film Dictionary

A run/slash/scream/slash/die flick about oversexed teens trying to escape from a hooked fisherman on a tropical island. There are moments of...

Pretty lame farce starring Stanley Tucci and Oliver Platt. A pointless rip-off of Marx Brothers' "Monkey Business" (1931).

A penniless college kid (Thomas) tries to hitch a ride across America wearing a Santa suit (don't ask). He wants to spend the holidays w...

Superficial similarities to Howard Hawks' adventure flicks aside, this picture about firefighters and escaped convicts has absolutely no...

An IMAX film about climbing the world's highest mountain. Length: 44 min.

A pregnant woman (Gwyneth Paltrow) has to cope with her psychotic mother-in-law (Jessica Lange). Campy melodrama-slash-thriller in the trad...

While vacationing in Jamaica, a middle-aged stockbroker (Bassett) falls in love with a handsome local guy half her age. Complications ensue ...

A woman, dumped by her husband, comes back home to her parents.

After their boss is murdered, three happy-go-lucky pot growers from Northern California decide to take over the business themselves. The fil...

Jake Busey plays a psychotic military helicopter pilot, who uses his Cobra attack chopper to kill his stepfather. Seems the old goat's b...

The story of two sisters, one of whom is a world-famous musician.

Spike Lee's take on college basketball politics.

An unbearably tedious film about a homeless writer and his upper-class girlfriend. It's badly lit, poorly designed, woodenly acted, and ...

The title says it all.

The title says it all.

This horror flick is so bad, a yet another sequel (whether called Halloween H30 or H202) is highly unlikely. Curtis is once again stalked by...

An Egyptian mummy attacks people in London.

Pretentious, but very stylish film about punk rock musicians.

Black comedy about a young executive who becomes increasingly paranoid about radiation and other dangers.

A rip-off of not one, but two Krzysztof Kieslowski's movies: "Przypadek" ("Blind Chance") and "Podwojne zycie W...

A disappointing sequel to "The Fugitive" with Tommy Lee Jones reprising his Oscar-winning role and Wesley Snipes taking over from ...

Atrociously boring, unbearably slow-moving and incompetently directed swashbuckling/adventure/romance mess. The legendary seducer breaks a f...

Eddie Murphy is quite good as a nutty veterinarian who can converse with his patients. But the film is barely watchable, with gags ranging i...

This atmospheric film noir directed by Robert Benton bears some resemblance to one his earlier films, The Late Show (1977). It's a story...

Some mysterious force takes over the minds of young high school students, turning them into homicidal snobs. A bizarre allegory about juveni...

A wholesome picture about a typical, dysfunctional, all-American, trailer-trash family invited to appear on the Jerry Springer Show. Their p...

Two loosers (i.e. middle-aged men without money, job or girlfriend) set up their own revenge-for-hire business. The concept is good, promisi...

A warm and fuzzy daddy (Keaton), killed in a car accident, returns as a snowman to spend some quality time with his son. Snowballs and hocke...

Unlike "George Of The Jungle", this jungle adventure pic takes itself much too seriously - and it's paying for it dearly at th...

Very ridiculous thriller about a psychotic killer pursued by a cop whose son needs a bone-marrow transplant (the criminal being the only pos...

A black comedy about a Mafia boss (Walken) kidnapped by a bunch of rich prep school kids. On the plus side is the script, full of very ingen...

A huge comet is on a collision course with Earth, threatening the very survival of the human race. This seems hardly like a tragedy in this ...

Two college buddies wouldn't mind if their roommate commited suicide. Apparently, that would improve their grade point average. A totall...

A pretentious sc-fi/noir suspense thriller about evil aliens conducting cruel experiments by stealing people's memories. The art directi...

Heroic vampires are being slaughtered by a psychotic avenger. Ooups, sorry. A heroic avenger is slaughtering psychotic vampires. Who cares a...

An IMAX feature set in Eastern African game reserves. Length: 40 min.

There are some impressively staged scenes of huge trucks ramming into each other on highways. There is a simple, straightforward, fast-paced...

Directed by Takashi Ishii. A disappointing sequel. Many sleazy scenes, but little excitement.

Nice little comedy about a gay photographer wooing an allegedly straight model. A couple of brechtian touches aside, this is basically a mai...

Two sisters get involved with drugs. A melodramatic and very trashy movie.

This documentary occasionally manages to achieve the quality of an "Entertainment Tonight" cover story.

A very loose, African-American remake of Bringing Up Baby, with Davidson as a straighlaced legal assistant beleaguered by a persistently koo...

This must be the first film that tries to evoke nostalgia for the 1980's (hopefully the last one, too). Stay clear unless you like campy...

If a mutt can play football (see Air Bud: Golden Receiver), why not a Cajun waterboy with a speech impediment (Sandler)? This watchable spor...

Picard leads the crew of the "Enterprise" in open rebellion against the Federation to defend the inhabitants of a peaceful planet....

A team of scientists is sent to the bottom of the ocean to explore a mysterious spacecraft. Terminally boring mixture of sci-fi and horror e...

Leslie Nielson's schtick just isn't funny anymore, and this annoying parody of The Fugitive is the worst film he's ever made. It...

Fans of the TV series should be satisfied, but others might be put off by lack of action, criptic dialogue, wooden acting and many dull spot...

Ponderous imitation of a Hong Kong crime flick. Director Antoine Fuqua ain't John Woo. Mira Sorvino is great, though.

An unemployed actor (Matthew Modine) accepts a degrading bit in a Madonna video. Meanwhile, his best friend becomes a big soap opera star. A...

A toy company implants a high-tech military chip (used for smart bombs and self-guiding missiles) into their latest product. As result, ther...

While the blitzkriegs of WWII make for dynamic war movies, the static trench warfare of WWI seems better suited for anti-war allegories. Thi...

Warner Bros. invades Disney's private domain of feature-length animation, but fails miserably. Shamelessly stealing the general concept ...

"The X-Files" meet "Rosemary's Baby" in this story of alien abduction and impregnation.

According to the Bible, "a woman of fortitude... her price is far above rubies". Sonia (Zellwegger), a wife of a Hassidic scholar,...

Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman plays two sisters who are witches.

Patricia Amlin's animated feature based on a sacred book of the Kiche-Mayas. If you thought the Bible was wild, wait for those mythologi...

An evil creature living deep underground slaughters all the inhabitants of a small Colorado town. Not scary enough for a horror film, too bo...

A husband hires another man to murder his wife. A boring and predictable remake of a minor Hitchcock classic, "Dial M For Murder" ...

The first half of this noir thriller is laughably predictable, featuring every single cliche of the genre. The second half offers some genui...

Two old geezers have many adventures on the way to their children's wedding. This sequel to the 1968 hit comedy is a pale shadow of the ...

Ed Burns' third film is an embarassingly boring drama partly inspired by "Beautiful Girl" (again starring Lauren Holly in a si...

A law student (McGregor) takes a night-time job as a security guard in a morgue. Meanwhile, a serial killer is stalking sexy young women. If...

Directed by Les Bernstien. A pastiche of the film noir genre. Stylistically, it borrows heavily from Orson Welles' "Touch Of Evil...

A Hollywood agent (Crystal) finds a 7.5-foot giant in a Romanian monastery and wants to turn him into a movie star. At first, the film promi...

While it resembles "The Usual Suspects" in some respects, it's a far, far weaker film.

Documentary about a man hit by a car.

A solid, but unremarkable adaptation of one of the greatest treasures of French literature. Complex moral issues, shades-of-grey characters ...

An anthropologist (Dreyfuss) dresses up his family as the New Guinea tribe he's supposed to be studying; otherwise, he might go to jail ...

An undercover FBI agent (Willis) saves an autistic child from the clutches of an evil NSA spook (Baldwin). A mediocre thriller, weak on susp...

A TV sportscaster (Schwimmer) wants to find out if his fiancee (Avital) will remain faitful to him, and so asks his best friend (Lee) to try...

This is Hollywood cinema at its absolute worst - excruciatingly boring, numbingly dumb and blissfully unaware of its own worthlessness. It...

A minor league team from South Carolina challenges a major league team from Minnesota. Guess who wins. If you hate baseball, you'll hate...

Great footage of airplanes in the sky. A poorly narrated IMAX feature.

A lame parody of The Godfather, with a few bits from Casino added in for good measure. The film desperately tries to be funny, throwing as m...

A guy dies and his three best friends travel across America to spread his ashes on a mountain in Montana.

The galactic adventures of the Robinson family, sent to colonize planet Alpha Prime. One of those films where you spend the first hour scrat...

Boring pic about about a single woman (Holly Hunter).

A Haitian diplomat has an affair with a young patologist, whose other lover is a gubernatorial candidate. Set in New York City, it's a v...

There is only one reason to see this lousy and boring piece of crap: Hong Kong superstar Jet Li, making a truly impressive Hollywood debut. ...

A lesbian love affair between two middle-aged women.

An angel (Cage) falls in love with a flesh-and-blood woman (Ryan). This abysmal remake of Wings Of Desire takes a sadistic pleasure in tortu...

Gus Van Sant fails miserably in this pointless attempt to create a carbon-copy of the immortal horror classic. He only manages to prove that...

To be perfectly honest, I usually hate sports movies. But this one is actually watchable; with plenty of dumb, weird, but amusing gags. It...

That annoying purple dinosaur is back (where are thugs with baseball bats when you need them?). If pre-school kids love him, it only proves ...

Tired of always talking about the weather, a British aristocrat (Connery) decides to do something about it. That puts two secret agents (Thu...

Bruce Willis leads a crack team of heroic drillers sent to the outer space to crack a giant asteroid hurling towards the Earth. Loud and bor...

A young student discovers that one of his neighbors is a Nazi war criminal.

An utterly baffling and seriously misguided noir thriller set in the Nevada desert. It promises mystery and suspense, but only delivers bore...

In 1804, two explorers, a foppish dandy (Perry) and a fat slob (Farley), try to beat Lewis and Clark to the American West. Sadly, Farley...

Bored with basketball, the canine prodigy takes on the game of football. Way better than the first film, but that's hardly a recomendati...

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