Film Dictionary

Along with ''Mezzo Forte'' (also directed by Yasuomi Umetsu), ''Kite'' (1998) is probably the best Japanese ...

George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez have great chemistry together in this very funny gangster comedy. Truly memorable characters and great d...

Lola has 20 minutes to find 100,000 deutchmarks and save her boyfriend's ass.

Cynical, superbly written film about a bunch of misogynist, coke-snorting Hollywood executives. The most inhuman, disturbing (but yes, ri...

Truman Burbanks (Jim Carrey) is the star of a 24-hour TV show that records his life. Problem is, he doesn't know it. A brechtian comed...

Screamingly funny black comedy about an evil 16-year-old girl (Christina Ricci) ruining the life of her saintly (and gay) half-brother (Mart...

In Mussolini's Italy, a young Jewish waiter (Benigni) marries a Gentile woman (Braschi). Five years later, the Nazis send them to a de...

A young woman gets to know her upstairs neighbor when a hole appears on her ceiling. A superb comedy from Taiwan.

Directed by Emir Kusturica. With Branka Katic, Florijan Ajdini and Adnan Bekir. A surrealistic, flamboyant black comedy about crazy Serb Gyp...

It could be described as a computer-animated remake of Akira Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai", except that here, the brave defen...

"Dangerous Beauty" is one of the most fascinating historical dramas to come out of Hollywood in recent years. Directed by Marshall...

Indian drama about a female terrorist. Stylistically impressive.

Horny, disgusting creatures called boys are about to invade a private boarding school for girls. However, its pubescent residents are determ...

A hip, entertaining musical about five gorgeous airheads who took the world by storm and set feminism back by at least a decade. Those sassy...

Very well acted, quite absorbing little mystery movie. The plot twists could have been more ingenious, but the dialogue is memorably unsettl...

Based on an autobiographical novel by Kaylie Jones (daughter of author James Jones), this is a warm and sensitive film about a young America...

Beautiful Iranian film about a blind boy from Tajikistan.

Great documentary about the punk rock culture.

A young girl saves China from evil foreign invaders. The Mouse House tries hard to placate Beijing (still angry about Kundun) with this spec...

Tense war drama set during the Normandy invasion.

Bizarre black comedy about a 15-year-old student who falls in love with a teacher (Olivia Williams).

The title refers to ruthless government soldiers and equally ruthless anti-government guerillas. Both groups make life miserable for poor, p...

Athos, Porthos and Aramis are plotting to kidnap the King of France (DiCaprio) and replace him on the throne. It's an adaptation of an A...

A culture-clash comedy starring Jason Priestley and John Hurt.

Jet Li stars in this very enjoyable, if somewhat ordinary, chop-socky actioner about a search for a mysterious killer.

It's basically a clone of "Jurassic Park" and "The Lost World" - same special effects and chases. This monster does...

Wonderfully entertaining film about Martin Cahill, Ireland's most notorious thief.

Directed by Hou Hsia-Hsien. Shanghai's red-light district in the late 19th century. The action is set indoors, in splendidly decorated r...

Few films so perfectly capture the effects of drugs on people's minds. A constantly imaginative film from Terry Gilliam.

An absolutely terrific kung-fu/road movie with first-rate martial arts sequences and oddball humor. Particularly memorable is Brittany Murph...

Rollicking and very funny farce about insensitive men inviting unsuspecting "idiots" to a dinner party. But one host (Lhermitte)...

Six people - a policeman, a math wiz, an authistic savant, a paranoid physician, a building contractor and a former convict - try to escape ...

Aa bitter old maid (Lange) prepares a terrible revenge against her family. This witty and sarcastic comedy of manners brilliantly exposes th...

An all-star cast, great battle scenes, superb camerawork, a need for tighter editing.

Michael Moore's back to his old tricks, trying to meet CEOs of several companies he doesn't like.

The greatest hog thespian since Porky Pig returns in this exciting sequel to the 1995 sleeper hit. This time, our porcine prodigy liberates...

An Iranian film about two little girls locked in their house by their father.

A little ant worker (Woody Allen) saves his colony from a disaster while wooing a fiery ant princess (Sharon Stone). A very nice computer-an...

A police raid goes bad and two cops (along with a TV cameraman) are taken hostage by psychotic junkies.

Directed by Shimon Dotan. With Ellen Burstyn, Genevieve Bujold and Amanda Plummer. Burstyn plays an overbearing Jewish mother, whose incessa...

Fascinating portrait of America's most notorious and unfairly maligned filmmaker, focusing on his May-December romance with the daughter...

Three gorgeous women (Halle Berry, Vivica A.Fox and Lela Rochon) all claim to be the widows of Frankie Lymon.

Directed by Eric Rohmer. With Marie Riviere, Beatrice Romand and Alain Libolt. A middle-aged woman becomes the victim of the matchmaking eff...

A Woody Allen film, interesting mainly for Kenneth Branagh's dead-on imitation of Allen's patented mannerism.

Shocking, superbly well made film about a crazy young boy.

A US senator from California goes beserk, hires a hitman to kill himself, insults his supporters and hides in South Central L.A. while a pol...

Outstanding special effects enliven this fine film about little creatures living behind walls.

A sequel to the 1980 hit about a band of car-wrecking musicians. The film really comes to life during its fabulous musical numbers, featurin...

Terrific Euro-thriller in the "Day Of The Jackal" mode. Great car chases.

This unpretentious little film about two young women renewing their friendship might well be the best Quebec pic of the year. It's off-b...

A well-acted, expertly-written political comedy about Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. He's presented as an ambitious, wom...

There are plenty of catchy tunes in this animated film about a vivacious redhead tomboy. A fashion victim, Pippi is a spunky little brat who...

This is a very rare case of a remake being exactly as good as the original. The story premise - twin sisters separated in infancy, never tol...

A modest little comedy about the October crisis in 1970. The plot revolves around a young actress from Montreal appearing in a sex farce bei...

Deeply moving love story between a recovered alcoholic and a social worker.

Raoul Ruiz co-wrote the script of this enigmatic mystery movie.

Romantic misadventures of a young Parisian writer. One of those French films where the hero lives with one woman, chases after another, slee...

Erotic adventures of a beautiful adolescent girl on the French Riviera.

Bizarre black comedy about a female terrorist who shoots her teammate instead of a target, and is forced to hide from cops. At first, the pl...

Directed by Pierre Jolivet. With Virginie Ledoyen, Carole Bouquet et Gerard Lanvin. What happens when a sexy-young-girl-in-trouble (Ledoyen)...

Boring pic about an older woman (Isabelle Huppert) falling in love with a young gigolo.

Under this non sequitur title hides a fairly ordinary, tender film about a gay man who marries a woman in order to get ten million franks fr...

Words can hardly describe the utter worthlessness and the painful wretchedness of this monumental disaster. The incoherent plot involves an ...

Un réalisateur décide de faire un film à Paris. Il cherche son héroïne et s'adjoint les services d'une jeune professionnelle du cast...

A middle-age woman (Girardot), who spent most of her life in Africa as a humanitarian aid worker, re-examines her values and commitments. In...

A knight (Reno) and his servant (Clavier) are time travelling again, trying to find some missing jewels. This sequel is bad. The pacing is t...

Under the influence of a little lab rat, a middle-class family sinks into debauchery and perversity. A sequel of sorts to Marina De Van'...

Plotless film about a little boy wandering around Nice, encountering many nice people. Those who won't fall asleep, will discover a nice...

A speed-loving cabbie will loose his licence, unless he helps a police detective catch a gang of Teutonic bank robbers in Marseilles. But ca...

Interesting French film starring Maggie Cheung. She plays herself - a Hong Kong actress who comes to France to appear in an artsy remake of ...

A mixed jury of white soldiers, black rebels and ordinary tourists, is asked to judge the actions of a Guadaloupean revolutionnary, Ignace, ...

It's Moving Day for a young couple, and their friends come to help, but everything that can possibly go wrong, does go wrong. It's a...