Film Dictionary

Very original musical film about the 1929 stock market crash.

From Andrew Stanton (director of "Finding Nemo" and co-director of "A Bug's Life") comes this entertaining cartoon a...

Woody Allen moves to Spain and the results are both refreshing and entertaining. It's a vaguely Henry Jamesian story about two more-or-l...

Sally Hawkins won a well-deserved Golden Globe as Best Actress (Comedy or Musical) for her cheerful and effervescent performance in this cut...

Tarantinesque gangster flick from France.

Terrific film, part action flick, part Hollywood satire, with amazing performances, hilarious dialogue and perfect pacing. Robert Downey Jr ...

Much better than the first film.

Superlative film about a priest suspected of child abuse. Meryl Streep gives another outstanding performance, but Phillip Seymour Hoffman an...

Werner Herzog's Oscar-nominated documentary about Antarctica.

Amber Heard is absolutely terrific in this cynical drama about morally challenged individuals enjoying sex, drugs and rock n' roll in 19...

Hurricane Katrina from the point of view New Orleans' ghetto residents. Hard-hitting, eye-opening, angry, one-sided and fascinating.

Excellent, Palme d'Or-winning French film about a high-school teacher and his unruly students. It makes "Blackboard Jungle", ...

Terrific film about a Bernard Madoff-like fraud artist who travels to Northern Canada to escape from his investors.

A Disney animated version of "The Truman Show", with a dog in Jim Carrey's role. Constantly surprising and entertaining.

A tarantinesque farce about two potheads caught in the crossfire of a drug gang war.

A kung-fu master takes a stand against the Japanese invaders.

Quite an amazing film about a seriously disturbed little boy. A very black comedy with a weird sense of humor.

Excellent documentary about the famous (and controversial) film director.

Excellent film about wild youth in Canada. Set on a single night when perfect chaos reigns, it's an amazingle well-made, low-budget gem.

It's a curious and bewildering film. The first part, "The Argentine", describing the Cuban Revolution, is slow-moving, devoid ...

A Tim Burton-ish fairy tale about a strange little village in Quebec and the tribulations of its resident village idiot, who gets in trouble...

Warm, bittersweet and nostalgic film about a young girl and her brothers coping with being abandoned by their mother. Excellent performances...

Marvellous British comedy about two kids making their own "Rambo" movie. Similar to (but way better than) Michel Gondry's ...

"Godzilla" meets "The Blair Witch Project".

Excellent film about Canadian rednecks. A visually stunning work, a perfect example of the "rural gothic" genre. Winner of the Bes...

A French adaptation of Agatha Christie's "4:50 from Paddington", already filmed in 1961 as "Murder She Said". The ma...

Often funny comedy about a postmaster from the south of France who is forced to accept a job in the far north of the country, where people s...

Documentary about the autistic sister of French actress Sandrine Bonnaire (who directed this film).

A boring French melodrama about a thoroughly fucked-up family.

La vie de la célèbre romancière française qui (comme elle a écrit dans son propre épitaph), "fit son apparition en 1954, avec un mince ...

Uneven French film by Cedric Klapisch. "Altmanesque" in structure, it follows the destinies of several characters whose paths inte...

An unbelievably atrocious French film starring Nathalie Baye and Édouard Baer. Certainly one of the most insipid and boring pieces of cinema...

Boring French film about a girl whose lovers slowly disappear (by becoming transparent).

A magical cream allows an ordinary man to appear as a celebrity in the eyes of all around him. A one-joke idea stretched into a feature.

French drama about revenge, kidnapping and murder.

Traditional melodrama about two sisters reuniting after a long separation.

French film about economic exploitation and Islam.