Splat 1/5 |
S.W.A.T. (2003) |
"Colin is cute, Sam is snarky, and that's pretty much all we have to cling to" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
Sandstorm (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
Andrea Chase |
- |
The Savages (2007) |
"Laura Linney talks to Andrea Chase about life, death, and THE SAVAGES (streaming audio 13:27)" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 5/5 |
The Savages (2007) |
"dark, tart, and oddly joyful" |
Andrea Chase |
- |
Saved! (2004) |
"Jena Malone interviewed by Andrea Chase" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
Saved! (2004) |
"Writer/director Brian Dannelly takes a witty but deadly approach to the pitfalls of using a narrow set of rules to decide what God’s will is exactly" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 3/5 |
Saw (2004) |
"real horror arises from the stuff of genuine nightmares, stuff that the story-writing duo examines with intimate, even salacious, detail" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 2/5 |
Saw II (2005) |
"mimics the original without quite catching what made that original worth seeing" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 1/5 |
School for Scoundrels (2006) |
"The loopy energy dissipates, and the script scuttles around, randomly tossing ideas around as though it had been edited with dull pinking shears, and generally killing time until the denouement" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 5/4 |
School of Rock (2003) |
"Black plays Dewey as the bastard child of Jack Nicholson and Elvis" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 1/5 |
Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004) |
". . .a film in which much time, money, and effort was expended so that a computer-generated dog could fart." |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 0/5 |
Scooby-Doo - The Movie (2002) |
Click here to see the review. |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 2/5 |
The Scorpion King (2002) |
"That’s pretty much the flick -- the twang of a weapon flying through the air, the thwack of it hitting someone, followed closely by the thud of a falling body." |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 1/5 |
The Sea (2003) |
"Kormakur fails to make us care about these characters . . . rather, their scathing unpleasantness makes us want to run away as quickly as possible" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
Seabiscuit (2003) |
"done with the verve, respect, and wonder" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) |
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Andrea Chase |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Secret Lives of Dentists (2003) |
"more of an intellectual exercise than a melodrama, but one with its own chilly pleasures." |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 2/5 |
Secret Window (2004) |
"[Depp's] readings and body language . . . comment on the action with a wry snarkiness that is, in the end, the only thing worth watching" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 2/5 |
Semi-Pro (2008) |
"It misses the point entirely of what a spoof is, offering sporadic chuckles and a whole lot of disappointment for what should have been a slam dunk" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Sentinel (2006) |
"Michael Douglas might have been hired for the star power he could bring for a good opening weekend [but] it's . . . Kiefer Sutherland who walks off with the film" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 5/5 |
Serenity (2005) |
"is transmuted . . .intact to the big screen with creator Joss Whedon at the controls, the original cast in place, and all of them in perfect form.
" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 2/5 |
Seven Pounds (2008) |
"a diffuse and disjointed effort" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 2/5 |
Sex and the City - The Movie (2008) |
"the pithy premise becomes just so much sub-par chick-lit" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
Shadowboxer (2006) |
"that most wonderful of films, the kind that works on every level, but can't be easily pigeonholed" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
Shadowboxer (2006) |
Click here to see the review. |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
Shadowboxer (2006) |
"That most wonderful of films, the kind that works on every level, but can't be easily pigeonholed." |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 1/5 |
Shall We Dance? (2004) |
"The cultural nuances of the original have been lost and in their stead is the sort of deep insight into the human condition that can most readily be found in a fortune cookie" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 3/5 |
Shanghai Knights (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
Andrea Chase |
- |
The Shape of Things (2003) |
"Andrea Chase" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 5/5 |
The Shape of Things (2003) |
"[Labute's] is a milieu red in tooth and claw . . . where the innocent are just so much fodder for the buzz saw of Darwinism" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 3/5 |
Shark Tale (2004) |
"charming, if suffering a surfeit of cutesy pop-culture references, it lacks both . . . originality and the ineffable something that can best be described as zing" |
Andrea Chase |
- |
Shaun of the Dead (2004) |
"Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright interviewed by Andrea Chase" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 5/5 |
Shaun of the Dead (2004) |
"rife with finely observed lunacy as our dim-witted hero attempts to save the day armed with little more than a cricket bat and . . . the body language of an agitated gerbil" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 5/5 |
Shaun of the Dead (2004) |
"This film isn’t just funny, it’s wickedly clever" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 0/5 |
She's The Man (2006) |
"[It's] not just bad, it may actually be able to kill brain cells." |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
Sherlock Holmes (2009) |
"Rollicking, irreverent, and yet true to the spirit, if not the letter, of the Holmsian cannon, this is a version of Holmes that finds the perfect balance between cerebral and spectacle" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
Shoot 'Em Up (2007) |
"a high-impact, adrenaline pumping, laugh-out-loud film that is so preposterously over the top that it is almost poetry" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 2/5 |
Shooter (2007) |
"RAMBO with less pomposity and better acting. Mostly." |
Andrea Chase |
- |
Shopgirl (2005) |
"Claire Danes interviewed by Andrea Chase (streaming audio)" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 2/5 |
Shopgirl (2005) |
"As an anthropological study of the state of the male-female relationship in contemporary society, SHOPGIRL provides interesting fodder. As entertainment, it falls short" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
Shrek (2001) |
"The animation...is amazing." |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 3/5 |
Shrek 2 (2004) |
"Parfaits are in order for viewing this sequel that stumbles badly before hitting its stride halfway through its running time" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 1/5 |
Shrek the Third (2007) |
"What began two films ago as a deliciously snarky reinventing of fairy tales, done with appropriate, and long overdue, swipes at the purveyors of schmaltz has become the very thing it once made sport of" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 5/5 |
Sicko (2007) |
"Nothing like a little political theater to rouse the rabble and to make the indignation righteous. There is no better master of such showmanship than Michael Moore" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 5/5 |
Sicko (2007) |
"challenges its viewers to see the world at large in a new light, from a different angle, and with that most dangerous pair of words in the English language: "Why not?"" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 0/5 |
Silent Hill (2006) |
"about as terrifying as several pages of single-spaced programming code. Granted, that sort of thing can be daunting, but scary, not so much." |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 1/5 |
Silk (2007) |
"a singularly uninvolving bit of piffle crafted as though those who made it were afraid of waking someone" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
Silver City (2004) |
"Sayles peppers his script with metaphorical names, not to mention situations, producing a satire that is not only pointed, but very angry." |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 5/5 |
The Simpsons Movie (2007) |
"Popular culture has never come in for a more thorough, more righteous, pummeling" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
Sin City (2005) |
"Be prepared to shut your eyes through some of it, but the rest of it is a wild ride." |
Andrea Chase |
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