Splat |
S.W.A.T. (2003) |
"A thoroughly unremarkable police action movie." |
Bill Gallo |
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The Saddest Music in the World (2004) |
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Melissa Levine |
Tomato |
The Safety of Objects (2003) |
"After a slow start in which the complexities of person and plot take an age to get established, the film catches real emotional fire in some most unexpected places." |
Bill Gallo |
Splat |
Sahara (2005) |
"A stunning piece of work -- stunningly inept, stunningly incoherent, stunningly awful in every single way imaginable." |
Robert Wilonsky |
- |
The Santa Clause 2 (2002) |
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Robert Wilonsky |
Tomato |
School of Rock (2003) |
"[School of Rock] merely aspires to be a good time and is just that and nothing more, a grin-worthy buzz that wears off in the parking lot." |
Robert Wilonsky |
Tomato |
The Sea (2003) |
"The emotional appeal could be likened to that of a car wreck--Kormakur knows you'll have to look just to see how bad it gets." |
Luke Y. Thompson |
- |
The Sea Inside (2004) |
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Melissa Levine |
Tomato |
Seabiscuit (2003) |
"An engaging and emotionally satisfying film despite its shortcoming." |
Jean Oppenheimer |
Splat |
Secondhand Lions (2003) |
"There is no shortage of ham-fisted metaphors, no paucity of windy speeches, no lack of moments that tug at the heart like a newborn clumsily grabbing for its mother." |
Robert Wilonsky |
Splat |
Secretary (2002) |
"The problem with Secretary isn't that it is offensive or unnerving -- although you get the idea the filmmakers hoped it might be at least one of those. The problem is that the story is slow-moving and dull." |
Jean Oppenheimer |
- |
Shall We Dance? (2004) |
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Robert Wilonsky |
Splat |
Shanghai Knights (2003) |
"Why would the writers bother with narrative when the story is just something that kills time, and brain cells, between feats and fists of fury?" |
Robert Wilonsky |
- |
Shaolin Soccer (2002) |
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Melissa Levine |
Tomato |
The Shape of Things (2003) |
"Neil LaBute is back to his old self, and the cinematic world is a better place for it." |
Luke Y. Thompson |
Tomato |
Shattered Glass (2003) |
"A deeply unsettling tale." |
Bill Gallo |
- |
She Hate Me (2004) |
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Melissa Levine |
- |
Short Cuts (1993) |
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Melissa Levine |
Tomato |
Shrek 2 (2004) |
"A languidly paced, beautifully made and amusingly told tale in which, duh, love conquers all with the assistance of a kitty cat that winds up the movie's top dog." |
Robert Wilonsky |
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Sideways (2004) |
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Melissa Levine |
Tomato |
Signs (2002) |
"Shyamalan offers copious hints along the way -- myriad signs, if you will -- that beneath the familiar, funny surface is a far bigger, far more meaningful story than one in which little green men come to Earth for harvesting purposes." |
Robert Wilonsky |
Splat |
Silver City (2004) |
"It wears out its welcome well before its halfway point, by which time you're either so tangled up in plot points you're strangling, or so bored you just wish you were being strangled." |
Robert Wilonsky |
Splat |
Sin City (2005) |
"What we get isn't so much a dismantled and rearranged puzzle-piece narrative as much as a song stripped of its verses, till all we're left with is the chorus." |
Robert Wilonsky |
- |
Skins (2002) |
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Bill Gallo |
Tomato |
Solaris (2002) |
"For all its flaws, though, Solaris is a good try and a definite improvement over the dull remakes Soderbergh's been sleepwalking through lately." |
Luke Y. Thompson |
Splat |
Something's Gotta Give (2003) |
"When does this thing end? Is it over yet?" |
Luke Y. Thompson |
- |
The Sorrow and the Pity (1971) |
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New Times Film Reviewers |
Splat |
Spanglish (2004) |
"Less a story than a snapshot of a crumbling marriage populated by sitcom characters." |
Robert Wilonsky |
- |
Spider (2003) |
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Bill Gallo |
Tomato |
Spider-Man 2 (2004) |
"It's a two-hour epic, sprawling but never messy and moving without ever turning maudlin." |
Robert Wilonsky |
Tomato |
Spirited Away (2002) |
"I might as well just come out and say it: Spirited Away is the best movie I've seen all year." |
Luke Y. Thompson |
Splat |
Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (2002) |
"Lacks the charm and wit -- and humanity --of its predecessor. It's dispiriting." |
Robert Wilonsky |
Splat |
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003) |
"Everything looked irritatingly fuzzy to me, less 3-D than too-blurry." |
Robert Wilonsky |
Tomato |
Stander (2004) |
"Sstirringly, thrillingly animated." |
Robert Wilonsky |
Tomato |
Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002) |
"Standing in the Shadows of Motown is the best kind of documentary, one that makes a depleted yesterday feel very much like a brand-new tomorrow." |
Robert Wilonsky |
Splat |
Starsky & Hutch (2004) |
"Everything about this cineplex variation feels rinky-dink, like some extended variety-show skit that became a network pilot that accidentally morphed into a feature film when no one was paying attention." |
Robert Wilonsky |
Tomato |
The Station Agent (2003) |
"A humorous and touching tale about unexpected friendship." |
Jean Oppenheimer |
- |
Stevie (2003) |
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Bill Gallo |
Tomato |
The Stone Reader (2003) |
"Such stuff will most appeal to an endangered species -- the devotee of literary fiction -- but anyone who gives a damn about the state of popular culture and the future of language will want to take heed." |
Bill Gallo |
Splat |
Strayed (2004) |
"Yep, they hang out. And hang out some more. Really, that's about all they do. Kinda boring, right?" |
Luke Y. Thompson |
Tomato |
Super Size Me (2004) |
"As enormously entertaining as it is appalling." |
Robert Wilonsky |
Splat |
Sweet Home Alabama (2002) |
"The movie weighs no more than a glass of flat champagne." |
Robert Wilonsky |
Tomato |
Sweet Sixteen (2003) |
"The mission they undertook long ago -- the director once said it is 'to clarify the lives of ordinary people' -- has never seemed clearer, and the unpleasant realities they uncover here strike us with blunt force." |
Bill Gallo |
Tomato |
Swimming Pool (2003) |
"A delicious little thriller about an uptight, ill-humored English mystery writer who becomes enmeshed in murder, Swimming Pool is at once comical, contrary, resourceful and ambiguous." |
Jean Oppenheimer |
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