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Title: It's not a dictionary, but it is a total failure
Review: As much we can say it's eccentric, unfortunately it apparently seems that Mr. Thomson never read any film encyclopedia, lexicon, biographical dictionary or any other kind of reference book or work of lexicography. This is only some kind of his personal film guide, in fashion of Leonard Maltin, but unlike Maltin, he's totally subjective, unconcentrated, and he speaks about films in a way we can speak on street, but notin a book who claims to be some kind of reference book. If he honestly admitted it's not dictionary nor encyclopedic work, and if he didn't titled book in such uneblievably over-estimated way, everything would be OK. He can fail greatly (i.e. Pasolini's article) but he can also be totally right (i.e. Rivette's article). But this is not a dictionary, nor biographical. It's a personal guide through some films, written in journalistic style, without any connection with real "biographical dictionary" works.
