Tomato 4/5 |
S.O.B. (1981) |
No article available. |
Cole Smithey |
Tomato 4/5 |
Sabrina (1954) |
"Bogey and Hepburn - classic." |
Cole Smithey |
Tomato B |
Sacco & Vanzetti (2007) |
"A long-held cause celebre for leftists the world over, the story of immigrant activists Sacco & Vanzetti is told in Peter Miller's rote documentary as a reference point for the way immigrants are still mistreated in America." |
Cole Smithey |
Tomato 5/5 |
The Sacrifice (1986) |
No article available. |
Cole Smithey |
Tomato B+ |
The Saddest Music in the World (2004) |
"The film's expressionist style and lighting design provide it with an immaculate richness of visual textures." |
Cole Smithey |
Tomato 3/5 |
Sade (2002) |
No article available. |
Cole Smithey |
Tomato 3/5 |
Safe Men (1998) |
No article available. |
Cole Smithey |
Splat C- |
Sahara (2005) |
"For an adventure movie based on chase scenes in exotic locations "Sahara" never takes hold because director Breck Eisner and his team of screenwriters can't agree on what the story's about or what tone should resonate against it." |
Cole Smithey |
Tomato A+ |
Salo, Or The 120 Days of Sodom (1975) |
"Dramatically feral and artistically fertile, "Salo" is a rigorous movie that dares to use the metaphor of torture as a device of utter physical and psychological annihilation for both the victim and the torturer." |
Cole Smithey |
Tomato 4/5 |
Salon Kitty (1975) |
"All hail Tinto Brass doing Nazi Germany at its most debauched." |
Cole Smithey |
Tomato 4/5 |
Salvador (1986) |
No article available. |
Cole Smithey |
Tomato 5/5 |
Salvatore Giuliano (1961) |
"Rosi is cinema." |
Cole Smithey |
Tomato 5/5 |
Sanshô the Bailiff (1954) |
"Perfect." |
Cole Smithey |
Tomato 3/5 |
Saturday Night Fever (1977) |
No article available. |
Cole Smithey |
Splat C- |
Savage Grace (2008) |
"Dark humor, along the lines of "The Honeymoon Killers," gives way to fractured set pieces that gesture toward the film's gratuitous climax, one that's destined to bestow upon it a cult status." |
Cole Smithey |
Splat C |
The Savages (2007) |
"It's obvious that Jenkins is inspired by the work of Canadian writer/director Denys Arcand ("The Barbarian Invasions"), but she doesn't dig deep enough to capture the complexities and nuance that the material demands." |
Cole Smithey |
Splat C- |
Save Me (2007) |
"The film refuses to follow any one strand of political logic, and as such exists on an insufficient amount of thematic oxygen to support its loaded dramatic context." |
Cole Smithey |
Splat C |
Saved! (2004) |
""Saved!" starts out as a feisty satire on organized religion but sputters in its third act to an apologetic footnote for all that has come before." |
Cole Smithey |
Splat C- |
Saving Private Ryan (1998) |
"Violent, harrowing, and horrific; you bet. This is not a movie to take your children to see, or even a date. And it's definitely not worth seeing alone. How the ratings board gave this movie an "R" rating is a mystery. Well, maybe not." |
Cole Smithey |
Tomato B- |
Saw II (2005) |
"One-part “Silence Of The Lambs,” one-part “Ten Little Indians” and still carrying a lasting dosage of “Se7en,” “Saw II” reveals a horror franchise to be reckoned with." |
Cole Smithey |
Splat C- |
Saw III (2006) |
"The extreme gore is gratuitous, and character development non-existent in a movie packed with the cookie-cutter visual design of the previous two films. Torturer, victim and audience become one." |
Cole Smithey |
Splat D- |
Saw V (2008) |
"Everything after its gory "pit-and-the-pendulum" opening scare sequence is downhill in the fifth and potentially last installment in a horror franchise that has run completely out of steam." |
Cole Smithey |
Splat D |
Saw VI (2009) |
"Headache-inducing, and featuring one of the worst D-movie performances of the aughts from Costas Mandylor, the latest "Saw" franchise addition is more of the same torture-punishment-rehab-porn audiences have come to expect." |
Cole Smithey |
Tomato 3/5 |
Say Anything (1989) |
No article available. |
Cole Smithey |
Tomato 4/5 |
Scanners (1981) |
No article available. |
Cole Smithey |
Splat C- |
Scary Movie 4 (2006) |
"High production values and seemingly endless celebrity cameos only moderately elevate the scattershot satire of the Scary Movie franchise." |
Cole Smithey |
Tomato 5/5 |
Scenes from a Marriage (1973) |
No article available. |
Cole Smithey |
Tomato 3/5 |
Scent of a Woman (1992) |
No article available. |
Cole Smithey |
Splat C+ |
School for Scoundrels (2006) |
""School For Scoundrels" relies on Thornton's hovering performance to drive the film, and the formula nearly succeeds in the face of Jon Heder's narrow comic range and inability to develop his character over the course of the story." |
Cole Smithey |
Tomato A- |
School of Rock (2003) |
"Jack Black is a one-man rock 'n roll powerhouse in this infectious musical comedy directed by Gen X wunderkind Richard Linklater..." |
Cole Smithey |
Splat D |
The Science of Sleep (2006) |
"Navel-gazing director Michel Gondry ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind") wears his developmentally arrested heart on his sleeve, on his pants, and on his forehead in the most self-indulgent movie of 2006." |
Cole Smithey |
Splat C |
Scoop (2006) |
"As writer, director and actor Allen borrows so liberally from himself that anyone familiar with his movies will experience twinges of déjà vu in nearly every other scene." |
Cole Smithey |
Tomato 3/5 |
Scream and Scream Again (1969) |
No article available. |
Cole Smithey |
Tomato 4/5 |
Scrooged (1988) |
No article available. |
Cole Smithey |
Tomato 4/5 |
Sea of Love (1989) |
No article available. |
Cole Smithey |
Splat C |
Secondhand Lions (2003) |
"Duval and Caine make the film watchable, but there's too much gunplay for the movie to truly be the child-friendly entertainment that it pretends." |
Cole Smithey |
Tomato 4/5 |
Secret Agent (1936) |
No article available. |
Cole Smithey |
Splat C- |
The Secret Life of Bees (2008) |
"The Secret Life of Bees is further evidence that there should be a moratorium on secret-life-of-anything movies." |
Cole Smithey |
Tomato A+ |
Secrets & Lies (1996) |
"Much more than just a touching story of the ties that bind humanity and the way we reveal ourselves, "Secrets and Lies" (1996) is a staggering work of cinematic genius. It is truly a perfect film." |
Cole Smithey |
Splat C- |
The Seeker (2007) |
"Director David L. Cunningham and screenwriter John Hodge ("Trainspotting") conspire with a gruelingly slow pacing to underpin nebulous special effects sequences. "The Seeker" is a children's fantasy movie worth avoiding." |
Cole Smithey |
Tomato B- |
Semi-Pro (2008) |
"Will Farrell loiters in the comfort of his signature punch-drunk delivery of outrageous lines and sight gags in a '70s era parody that extends the funk vibe of Judd Apatow's summer comedy "Superbad."" |
Cole Smithey |
Tomato 5/5 |
Senso (1955) |
No article available. |
Cole Smithey |
Splat C |
The Sentinel (2006) |
"Michael Douglas goes through the motions of playing an action man in this plodding and pedestrian political suspense thriller." |
Cole Smithey |
Tomato B+ |
Separate Lies (2005) |
""Separate Lies" is a hearty mystery/drama that blooms as a succinct social critique of British aristocracy." |
Cole Smithey |
Splat C- |
September Dawn (2007) |
"The director's overreaching attempts at social commentary with hackneyed devices weaken the veracity of the source material and leave the film open to interpretation as propaganda." |
Cole Smithey |
Tomato A |
The September Issue (2009) |
"Documentarian R.J. Cutler manages the impossible--revealing the notoriously aloof Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour's personality behind the ice queen facade." |
Cole Smithey |
Tomato B+ |
Séraphine (2008) |
"...the audience is brought increasingly closer into the heart and mind of a genius whose turbulent inner life eventually envelops her conscious being." |
Cole Smithey |
Splat D |
Serbis (2009) |
"Filipino director Brillante Mendoza fails to disguise his prurient exploitation film, about a family-run soft-core cinema, as art house fare--although he seems to have succeeded in doing so with Cannes and New York film festival programmers." |
Cole Smithey |
Tomato 4/5 |
Serial Mom (1994) |
No article available. |
Cole Smithey |
Splat C- |
A Serious Man (2009) |
"It's not so much that "A Serious Man" isn't accessible--it is that. But the film never sets down parameters." |
Cole Smithey |
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