Film Dictionary

One of the most talked about TV series of 2024, based on a true story.

Exciting post-apocalyptic TV series about half of humanity surviving in underground shelters and the other half fighting for survival on the...

An uneven TV series about witches, hexes, covens and spells. The first episode is very good (and surprising), but the other ones are quite c...

"You can't go around apologizing for jokes. They're jokes. So I've got a plan. The next time I get cancelled over a joke, t...

A fine TV series starring Jean Smart, Hannah Einbinder and Lorenza Izzo.

Stylish TV series about a private detective, directed by Fernando Meirelles.

Excellent adult film about a pregnant woman (Casey Calvert).

Fine TV series starring Billy Bob Thornton, set in West Texas.

Eccentric British TV series about politics, journalism and sex.

Ellen DeGeneres’s reckoning with her cancellation. You can’t help but admire the chutzpah when she brackets her recent excommunication with ...

A fascinating journey into the past of Easter Island, Sacsayhuaman, Pueblo Bonito, Palenque and other mysterious places.

Colombian TV series based on the celebrated novel by Gabriel García Márquez.

A murder mystery on Nantucket Island, starring Nicole Kidman as a novelist whose son is getting married. Directed by Susanne Bier.

The second season of the famous Netflix series from South Korea. Quite impressive overall, but the last episode is disappointing, and the en...

The third season of the "naked Jane Austen with a diverse cast" Netflix series. Just as superficial as the previous ones.

The last season of the TV series that examines the origins of evil along the dividing line between science and religion. 

Very interesting (and very sexy) TV series directed by Alfonso Cuaron.

Impressive historical epic drama about power struggles in early 17th century Japan.

The final season of the celebrated Italian TV series.

A Paramount+ TV show about single men and women baring all on a tropical island in the hopes of finding love without modern world complicati...

Polish TV series about a young poet and his erotic adventures in the early 19th century.

Slightly better than the first part.

This is the ninth film in the franchise, following "Alien" (1979), "Aliens" (1986), "Alien 3" (1992), ...

Sentimental animated film about a robot raising an orphaned gosling.

Daisy Edgar-Jones gives a terrific performance is this otherwise routine disaster film set in Oklahoma.

An underwhelming sequel to the superb Pixar animated feature from 2015. There are many more emotions this time around, but the story is far ...

A prison drama starring Colman Domingo.

A Belgian horror movie. Visually interesting, but hardly memorable.

Excellent adaptation of William S. Burroughs' autobiographical novel about a gay American writer living in Mexico City in the early 1950...

Ambitious, but flawed film about two American cousins visiting Poland.

A very dull sequel to the 2016 Disney hit. 

A few exciting action sequences lost among hours of tedious monotony.

Historical drama about a real-life US Army battalion during WWII, composed entirely of African-American women. Tyler Perry directs this film...

Except for a terrific dance sequence with Dua Lipa and Henry Cavill at the very beginning of the film, this is a truly awful spy comedy star...

A boring Maria Callas biopic, directed by Pablo Larrain. Curiously, this otherwise talented filmmaker fails rather miserably every time he t...

A weak sequel to the Oscar-winning "sword-and-sandal" epic from 2000, directed again by Ridley Scott. Predictable and dull.

Very odd and very pretentiously directed film, that somehow became some critics' darling. But it fails to connect on any level, emotiona...

1. "Perfect Days"  (Wim Wenders, Japan) 2.  "About Dry Grasses"  (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey) 3. "The Zone Of Intere...