Tomato 4/4 |
Safety Last (1923) |
"In packed movie houses, with audiences invariably gasping and giggling on every cue, it's a near-religious experience." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Sahara (2005) |
"As Hollywood actioners go these days, this one’s quite tolerable in its guilty-pleasure way. Feel free to saddle up." |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 2/4 |
Saint Ralph (2005) |
"Light lessons about pain, endurance, and commitment...Likeable to a point, but in the end, Saint Ralph winds up incredible, manipulative, and strictly for the choir." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Sand Pebbles (1966) |
"A fine old-school picture...elevated further by its progressive themes. [Blu-Ray]" |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 1/4 |
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006) |
"It's like a Family Channel movie escaped and hid out in a movie theater." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 4/4 |
Saraband (2005) |
"Partly an internalized memory play and partly a strident drama in the vein of Strindberg or Ibsen, Ingmar Bergman's latest swan song to cinema bears the mark of a master." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3/4 |
Savage Grace (2008) |
"Disturbing in the extreme, Savage Grace gives a guided history tour of a family as dysfunctional as they come." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Savages (2007) |
"Hoffman and Linney bring a credible blend of ease and exasperation to the sibling relations, which show concern and competition in roughly equal measure. [DVD]" |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3/4 |
Save Me (2007) |
"A film that stands the best chance of winning the hearts and minds of those who now embrace the gay 'recovery' movement." |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Save the Tiger (1973) |
"Lemmon turns in showy, theatrical work that's appropriate to the not-terribly subtle film around him, but the whole enterprise is one that's best avoided..." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Saving Face (2005) |
"The affectionate ribbing of the cultural milieu and Joan Chen's sly performance raise this a cut above the...[formulaic] lesbian romances and "my crazy family" comedies." |
Peter Canavese |
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Saving Face (2005) |
"Joan Chen on Saving Face and Career Highlights" |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3/4 |
Saving Marriage (2008) |
"A portrait of democracy in action with high personal stakes and, as such, a moving emotional experience." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Saw (2004) |
"Sick, demented, wrong, and just the sort of movie we deserve at Halloween time.
" |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Scary Movie 4 (2006) |
"I just don't see much entertainment value--or, certainly, a shelf life--in a contrived string of mildly amusing parodies of bad movies. Here today, yawn tomorrow." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3/4 |
Schizo (2005) |
"Guka Omarova's assured first feature Schizo is a noir forced out into the sunlight." |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 2/4 |
School for Scoundrels (2006) |
"It's too bad that Phillips fumbles for comic gimmickry when he has the makings of a rich and timely satire on poison-peddling motivational personalities." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3/4 |
Schultze Gets the Blues (2005) |
"Defiantly slow-paced, Schultze gets the blues embraces a neglected subject: the wanderlust of the retiree." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Science of Sleep (2006) |
"The sum of Gondry's parts may be a hole, but the parts can be pretty darn clever and captivating." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3/4 |
Scoop (2006) |
"The classical cues often take on the tenor of a Warner Brothers cartoon score, and the Latin tracks make a sly or even campy counterpoint." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Scoop (2006) |
"Allen's old-fashioned films are now like a ratty pair of slippers that are too comfortable even to consider throwing away." |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 2/4 |
The Scorpion King (2002) |
"A ridiculous though not entirely unpleasant way to while away ninety-two minutes." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3/4 |
Scrubs - The Complete Eighth Season (2008) |
"Series creator Bill Lawrence has always toggled between the zany and the emotional, and the eighth season is no exception. [Blu-ray]" |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Sea Inside (2004) |
"Amenábar's lyricism and Bardem's keen projection of dignified commitment enable The Sea Inside movingly to evoke humanity affronted..." |
Peter Canavese |
- |
The Sea Inside (2004) |
"Alejandro Amenábar on The Sea Inside and Career Highlights" |
Peter Canavese |
- |
The Sea Inside (2004) |
"Javier Bardem on The Sea Inside and Career Highlights" |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Seabiscuit (2003) |
"Writer-director Ross's true-believer American salesmanship%u2014inspired by Frank Capra and honed in Dave and Pleasantville--suits this story of American entrepreneurship, optimism, and resilience. [Blu-ray]" |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Search for John Gissing (2001) |
"It's Rickman who runs away with the whole film by running the gamut from teflon smoothie to desperate madman." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 4/4 |
Seduced and Abandoned (1964) |
"A buffoonish but bitter social satire that runs to classical depths, Seduced and Abandoned takes no prisoners for society's misogynistic crimes in the name of familial honor." |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 0/4 |
See No Evil (2006) |
"Amateur Hour-and-a-Half....It isn't fit for human consumption." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Semi-Pro (2008) |
"Qualifies as a sort of cinematic comfort food: it's the mac and cheese of the cineplex." |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 2/4 |
The Sentinel (2006) |
"Strictly boilerplate...fail[s] to pursue any interesting avenues, using the cardboard characters as mere shooting-range targets." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3/4 |
Serenity (2005) |
"Whedon's smart, densely plotted, fast-paced story provides ample opportunities for characterization, revealing the pain beneath the characters' defensive humor." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Seventh Seal (1957) |
"Perhaps no one film speaks more fully to the human condition than The Seventh Seal. [Blu-ray]" |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Sex and the City - The Movie (2008) |
"King whips up enough quips and emotional moments to treat the faithful to a sort of moviegoing spa." |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 2/4 |
Sex Drive (2008) |
"Likeable enough, and even amusing for stretches, but ultimately too generic for a recommendation. [Blu-ray]" |
Peter Canavese |
- |
Sexy Beast (2001) |
"Sir Ben Kingsley on Sexy Beast and Shakespeare" |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 4/4 |
Sgt. Bilko: The Phil Silvers Show - 50th Anniversary Edition (1955) |
"Served up a solid-gold sitcom character in Silvers' conniving Master Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko." |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Shadowboxer (2006) |
"A rubbernecker's movie....There's a new Zalman King in town, and his name is Lee Daniels." |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 2/4 |
The Shaggy Dog (2006) |
"Wait for iiittt...yes, there's Allen lifting his leg to pee. I checked my watch when the sound of Baja Men's "Who Let the Dogs Out?" surrounded me: fifty minutes in." |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 2/4 |
Shark Tale (2004) |
"Is the fish fresh?...Shark Tale believes it can foist off high-speed energy in the place of wit." |
Peter Canavese |
- |
Shaun of the Dead (2004) |
"Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright on Shaun of the Dead" |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Shaun of the Dead (2004) |
"Impeccable performances...crack timing...Horror plaudits aside, Shaun of the Dead is out in front as the funniest comedy of the year." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
She Hate Me (2004) |
"A reminder that Spike Lee is one of our great American filmmakers, unafraid to address, directly and artfully, contemporary issues in a context of national history." |
Peter Canavese |
- |
She Hate Me (2004) |
"Spike Lee on She Hate Me and Career Highlights" |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 2.5/4 |
She's The Man (2006) |
"Gets by because it knows it's dorky. It's happily dorky. It's proudly dorky." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Shield: Season 6 (2007) |
"Not just another cop show...traffic[s] in the shadowy moral ambiguity of noir." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3/4 |
Shine a Light (2008) |
"Whatever your taste, you'll have to agree: Shine a Light is music and cinema writ large. [Blu-Ray]" |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Short Films of David Lynch (1966) |
"From whence comes a filmmaker as original and strange as David Lynch?" |
Peter Canavese |
- |
Shortbus (2006) |
"John Cameron Mitchell: 'Why not just use all the connections that sex has? You know, sex is certainly the spinal cord that connects to all these different organs in our life...'" |
Peter Canavese |
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