Tomato |
S.W.A.T. (2003) |
"Schlocky, slam-bang fun." |
Bob Campbell |
Splat |
The Saddest Music in the World (2004) |
"The style is so overdone it's nearly suffocating." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato 3/4 |
Sahara (2005) |
"Productions this guiltlessly corny need real personalities to sell them, and unlike the dull National Treasure, Sahara has a few." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato 3/4 |
Saint of 9/11 (2006) |
"If you think you can't bear to see another World Trade Center movie, you should still see the new documentary, Saint of 9/11." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Saint Ralph (2005) |
"Your interest is bound to fade long before Ralph does." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato |
Saints and Sinners (2004) |
"It is, simply, a slice of life, one that transcends questions of right or wrong, moral or immoral." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat 1/4 |
The Salon (2005) |
"The best scenes in Barbershop featured incisive discussions of current events. Here, the closest brush with topicality is a reference to Eddie Griffin." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006) |
"Tim Allen seems bored with his own franchise. At times, he looks downright morose, cranky enough to kick an elf." |
Lisa Rose |
Tomato 3/4 |
Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic (2005) |
"In the realm of confrontational comedy, Silverman is queen bee." |
Lisa Rose |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Save The Green Planet! (2005) |
"Makes you wonder just what new talent the increasingly inventive and idiosyncratic Korean cinema is going to give us next." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat |
Saved! (2004) |
"A banal high school comedy in the guise of a scathing religious satire." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat 2/4 |
Saving Face (2005) |
"By the end of the movie's hour-and-a-half, Wu's carefully tied up all loose ends and dutifully swept away any questions. It's a tidy little film, and her mother and mentors must be proud." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Saving Shiloh (2006) |
"Boring as porridge." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato |
Saw (2004) |
"Saw is a lesson in the redemptive power of a clever ending, how five minutes of inspiration can compensate for an hour and a half of mediocrity." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat 1/4 |
Saw III (2006) |
"Do you want to play a game? How about a really long, convoluted game that leads nowhere? The scariest thing about Saw III is how it seems like it's never going to end." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Scary Movie 4 (2006) |
"With Scary Movie 4, [director] Zucker creates a virtual duplicate of the last film, replete with a Michael Jackson impersonator. Once again, the gags grow repetitive, and all the highlights have been featured in the preview trailer." |
Lisa Rose |
Tomato 3/4 |
Schizo (2005) |
"It's unlikely that many Americans know much about Kazakhstan ... Schizo gives them a fascinating tour -- of its wide steppes, its dusty cities, its grimy mines." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato |
School of Rock (2003) |
"Linklater's direction -- right from the tossed-off opening credits -- is the happiest and most relaxed it's been since Dazed and Confused." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat |
Schultze Gets the Blues (2005) |
"Director Michael Shorr's setups are slow and static, with the action unfolding in long or medium shots. In several concert sequences, the dancers annoyingly look right at the camera." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat |
Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004) |
"Slightly more digestible than its predecessor." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Scoop (2006) |
"Modest and forgettable, it's Woody Lite." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Sea Inside (2004) |
"It's still just a soap opera, wrapped around an argument. And it's one we've heard half-a-dozen times before." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato |
Seabiscuit (2003) |
"Seabiscuit is resoundingly well made and emotionally satisfying." |
Bob Campbell |
Tomato |
Seaside (2003) |
"Touching, amusing, sometimes compelling, Seaside is ultimately little more revealing than a weekend visit. It's a sheaf of captivating postcards." |
Bob Campbell |
Splat 2/4 |
Second Best (2005) |
"Unfortunately there's nothing very sympathetic about Elliot, or even interesting." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat |
Secondhand Lions (2003) |
"The whole thing's just not funny enough for children. And it's far too sad for adults." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato |
The Secret Lives of Dentists (2003) |
"An interesting, and sometimes bitterly amusing film." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat |
Secret Things (2003) |
"[The movie] collapses under the weight of its own artsiness." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato |
Secret Window (2004) |
"Koepp keeps the suspense going. And amazingly he does it with a minimum of violence and special effects, relying instead on such old-fashioned ideas as character, atmosphere and the occasional, time-honored, bump in the night." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 1/4 |
See No Evil (2006) |
"Outside the wrestling hook, See No Evil is a boilerplate bloodfeast featuring the usual mix of stylish camerawork and screaming sound cues." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat |
Seed of Chucky (2004) |
"Close your eyes and you can almost pretend you're watching a real movie." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat |
Seeing Other People (2004) |
"It lacks the wit and depth to make it anything more than a mediocre tale of Hollywood malcontents." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Sentinel (2006) |
"If you're going to make a movie with the same title as a second-rate horror film, it should at least be as entertaining as that second-rate horror film." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat |
September Tapes (2004) |
"The film itself still feels faked, and its calculated exploitation of some real tragedies may be the most unbelievable thing of all." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 2/4 |
Seraphim Falls (2007) |
"Von Ancken may have begun this by wanting to remember films like High Plains Drifter. But all he ends up doing is reminding us how much better they were." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
A Serious Man (2009) |
"So which is it: a simply pointless existence? Or a world so complicated, we can’t grasp the point? If you think the Coens are going to try and answer that question, you haven’t seen many of their movies." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Seven Pounds (2008) |
"The whole thing ends in what's meant to be a spectacular act of selfless generosity -- but really plays as mad, messianic egoism." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato 3/4 |
Severance (2007) |
"The irony is thick, and the deaths are brutal, as horror and humor are spliced with social commentary. The British film sends up scary movies while building characters whose fates matter to the audience." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Sex and the City - The Movie (2008) |
"An absurd joke." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Shadowboxer (2006) |
"The storytelling is so overwrought, humorless and misguided, the film is like a noir car wreck." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat 2/4 |
The Shaggy Dog (2006) |
"If, in the end, this Allen film is an old dog that can't learn any new tricks, it's still enough of a safe, bland entertainment to keep some undiscriminating parents happy." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato 3/4 |
Shake Hands With the Devil: The Journey of Romeo Dallaire (2005) |
"His story is worth telling, and worth remembering for what it tells us about the West's brutal disinterest in Africa, and the United Nations' inability to do even its most basic job of keeping the peace." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato |
Shall We Dance? (2004) |
"A pleasant, uncomplicated, adult night out -- an event nearly as rare as a new romantic Hollywood musical." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato 3/4 |
Shall We Kiss? (2008) |
"Shall We Kiss? is a slight movie, but it's also a quietly enjoyable one." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato |
Shaolin Soccer (2002) |
"A lunatic whirl of a film that will leave audiences as giddy and punch drunk as the Shaolin team's opponents." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat |
The Shape of Things (2003) |
"Characters make self-conscious jokes, and other characters answer them with clumsy sarcasm; every line comes complete with arch, invisible quotation marks." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat |
Shark Tale (2004) |
"An uneasy mix of warmed-over Mafioso jokes and watery fish backgrounds." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato |
Shattered Glass (2003) |
"Told in dully straightforward terms, there's nothing here that would feel out of place in an old-fashioned TV movie. That doesn't make the drama any less compelling though." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato |
Shaun of the Dead (2004) |
"It's a dead man's party driven by inspired sight gags, witty repartee and likable, dare we say, cuddly characters." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat |
She Hate Me (2004) |
"It seems as if She Hate Me is two different stories spliced together, with cross-purposed tones and topics." |
Lisa Rose |
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