Tomato 3/5 |
The Sacrifice (1986) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat |
The Saddest Music in the World (2004) |
"Maddin's novel filmic imagination is exceeded only by his sense of superiority to his source material." |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat |
Sahara (2005) |
"A hot-buttered popcorn flick that's deserted by its writers in the last act." |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat |
Saint Ralph (2005) |
"If McGowan pushes the religious themes too hard, his greatest sin is that he leads you to believe that the story is true." |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 4/5 |
Salt of the Earth (1953) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 3/5 |
Sans Soleil (1982) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic (2005) |
"Barely 70 minutes, but any more of her routine might drive audiences either to the showers or to church." |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 4/5 |
Saturday Night & Sunday Morning (1960) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 4/5 |
Saturday Night Fever (1977) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat |
Saved! (2004) |
"Just what we were all waiting for: a feel-good movie about teen pregnancy." |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat |
Saw (2004) |
"Atrocious...I was fully ready to give up an arm and a leg to escape." |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 4/5 |
Say Anything (1989) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat |
Scarface (1983) |
"...Brian De Palma’s criminally over-the-top remake of the 1932 Howard Hawks gangster classic" |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 3/5 |
Scarlet Street (1945) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat 2/4 |
Scary Movie 4 (2006) |
"The cleverness dies slowly in this horror spoof ... reaching bottom with a bevy of bathroom jokes and the offal appearance of Leslie Nielsen as a dithering, Bush-league president." |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato |
Schindler's List (1993) |
"Many of the images, like the invasion of the Krakow ghetto, unfold like a collective nightmare of unspeakable brutality and dread." |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat |
School of Rock (2003) |
"...no pace, no backbeat, just Black hamming it up so manically that he makes Little Richard seem like Mel Torme." |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat |
Schultze Gets the Blues (2005) |
"He's not the only one." |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Science of Sleep (2006) |
"Maybe Gondry should have put more science in his fantasy of unrequited love, because little about it feels grounded in anything real ... Like most dreams, you're liable to forget about it in the morning." |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat |
Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004) |
"Scooby Don’t." |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Scoop (2006) |
"Yesterday's news." |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat |
Seabiscuit (2003) |
"...has 'class' and 'prestige' branded on every frame. It’s about first loves, second chances and never giving up. Cue the pounding hooves and swelling music." |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat |
Secret Window (2004) |
"...[only] the latest King thriller to be defenestrated onto the screen. The hack finale buried whatever hope I had for Secret Window to keep me from eyeing the door." |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 3/5 |
Selena (1997) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat 1/4 |
The Sentinel (2006) |
"Wrestled to the ground by one preposterous plot turn after another." |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat |
Separate Lies (2005) |
" As exceptional as Wilkinson is, Separate Lies only comes together as a chilly, bloodless drama." |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat 2/4 |
Seraphim Falls (2007) |
"After a roaring opening hour, Van Acken settles for a parched ending that's the Old West equivalent to "Can't we all get along?"" |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat |
Serenity (2005) |
"TV's sci-fi Firefly goes down in flames, despite the return of the original cast and Whedon's retro-arcane dialogue." |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 3/5 |
Sergeant Rutledge (1960) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat 2/5 |
The Servant (1963) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Set-Up (1949) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 4/4 |
Seven Samurai (1954) |
"Kurosawa's three-hour jidai-geki epic can be counted among the greatest of all battle movies ... a majestic tale of heroism, sacrifice and death." |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 5/5 |
Shadow of a Doubt (1943) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 3/5 |
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Shaggy Dog (2006) |
"Just when Allen is on a ferociously funny roll, director Brian Robbins is forced to collar and replace him with a collie doing a lame impersonation of a human." |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat |
Shall We Dance? (2004) |
"Chelsom zestfully follows the original almost step-by-step -– including a clumsy plot turn that should have been left off the dance card." |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 3/5 |
Shallow Grave (1995) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 3/5 |
Shampoo (1975) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Shanghai Gesture (1941) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat |
Shark Tale (2004) |
"Don’t bother to call the Coast Guard, kids. This one’s dead in the water." |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato |
Shattered Glass (2003) |
"While Sean Penn grabs the headlines for his emotive bluster in Mystic River,Peter Sarsgaard gives a brilliantly measured performance as editor Chuck Lane." |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat |
She Hate Me (2004) |
"The hate in She Hate Me seems mostly to come from the people who made it." |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat 2/5 |
She's So Lovely (1997) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat 2/5 |
She's the One (1996) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 3/5 |
Sherman's March (1986) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Shining (1980) |
""Here's Johnny!" ... Kubrick's grandiose Jack-in-a-box shocker is a fright, but it's hardly up to his earlier brilliance." |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Shop Around the Corner (1940) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |
Splat |
Shopgirl (2005) |
"Martin tries to sell us the idea that he's at least the West Coast Woody Allen. Audiences would do well to keep their receipts." |
Thomas Delapa |
Tomato 3/5 |
Short Cuts (1993) |
No article available. |
Thomas Delapa |