Film Dictionary

A young orphan chimp is adopted by a fully-grown male. A nature documentary edited like a fictional film, using footage of real-life chimp...

Conventional, classical and academic film about the legendary president.

Various interpretations of Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" (1980).

Non-stop chases, exciting gunfights and plenty of other fireworks in this competently directed spy/action/thriller starring Denzel Washing...

Richard Gere gives a fine performance in this tense, but cliché-ridden drama that borrows just a little too much from "The Bonfire Of T...

Typical action pic starring Jason Statham. Never boring, but never surprising either.

  Less successful than "Mirror Mirror" (2012), it's an ultra-serious, action-packed version of the Snow White tale.

Sappy, but touching drama about a young woman (Rachel McAdams) who suffers a brain injury that erases her most recent memory. Her husband mu...

Inexplicably nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Film, it's a very ordinary cartoon feature full of witches, ghosts, zombies and ...

Interesting, but conventional film about the famous philosopher.

Quirky comedy about three journalists investigating a bizarre classified ad seeking a companion for time travel.

Average whodunit starring Tom Cruise.

A documentary about the life of Roman Polanski.

The “Expendables” films are to the action movies what the “Scream” movies are to the horror genre – a hip, self-reflexive, satiric homage ...

If they wanted to show – SPOILER AHEAD - the battleship “Missouri” firing a broadside, they probably should have made a film about the nav...

Mildly amusing animated horror comedy about Transylvanian monsters holed up in Count Dracula's castle because they are afraid of human...

Don Hertzfeldt's animated feature film, which includes his 2006's short "Everything Will Be OK" and his 2008's short ...

A fictional character comes to life.

Fine, but unexceptional film about the Master of Suspense filming "Psycho".

A pretty good sci-fi/action movie with an ingenious time-travel concept.

Pirates of the Ice Age.

Oscar-nominated documentary about ACT UP New York.

Routine action flick starring Kate Beckinsale as a vampire fighting against werewolves. A sequel to a sequel to the original “Underworld”....

Hopelessly boring animated feature about ecology. Preachy, unbearable and completely devoid of any rhythm.

The first half of this movie is arguably the most boring, the most ridiculous and the most inept hour of celluloid in the history of Holly...

Pointless prequel to "Alien", by the same director.

Anthor boring "Johnny Depp in heavy makeup" Tim Burton production. It makes "The Addams Family" look like "Citizen ...

A film about a Burmese civil rights leader.

Heavy-handed propaganda film about global warming. Its images of receding glaciers are stunning, but they would have been far more effective...

Documentary about rapes in the US military.