Tomato
The Saddest Music in the World (2004)
"When a director's "primitive" style is as developed as Maddin's, your aesthetic response can seem like all the emotion you need, his thrill your thrill."
Alan Dale
Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic (2005)
"[A] polluted oasis for refugees from 'positive,' heartwarming, family-friendly entertainment."
Separate Lies (2005)
"Fellowes is so committed to the artistic means of naturalism, and so judicious, that his work is absorbing in a way that movies of broader scope almost never are."
Splat
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
"[T]the inevitable switch to romance taints the irony that came before like backwash."
Shortbus (2006)
"[Shortbus] will give adults who aren't put off by zoo-naked sex more to talk about, even in disparagement, than anything showing at the Cineplex."
Sideways (2004)
"[T]he irony and realism inform each other in an ongoing way new for [Payne and Taylor]."
Sin City (2005)
"[I]f you go for the dimensionless, porny style, hey, unbuckle and enjoy."
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
"[Sophie and Hans] embody the adolescent faith that any political action is better than none, and the movie couldn't treat them more glowingly if their actions had been effective."
Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
"[J]ust the kind of numbskull movie that critics call 'smart'."
Strangers With Candy (2006)
"[R]eplicate[s] in a raunchy cartoon how the chaos of our experience correlates more than we may care to admit to the chaos of our personalities."
Syriana (2005)
"Gaghan piles one storyline on another but is only interested in suggesting where they trend, working like a (cynical) editorialist who has made up a few examples to support his views."
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