Tomato 3/5 |
Saturday Night Fever (1977) |
No article available. |
Eric Melin |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Science of Sleep (2006) |
"For all its lighthearted flights-of-fancy, The Science of Sleep turns out to be a surprisingly heartbreaking affair." |
Eric Melin |
Splat 2/4 |
Semi-Pro (2008) |
"It puts too big a burden on Ferrell to make comedy gold out of rough outlines." |
Eric Melin |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Serenity (2005) |
"...giving a much-needed shot in the arm to a genre that’s become so pompous and full of itself that it wasn’t any fun anymore." |
Eric Melin |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Shield - Complete Fifth Season (2005) |
"Exceptional hand-held camerawork and complicated characters make this gangland drama seem as authentic as crime TV can get, even when some of its plotlines flirt with pure exploitation." |
Eric Melin |
Tomato 3/4 |
Shine a Light (2008) |
"The 18 cameras Scorsese and his award-winning team of cinematographers employed to cover every angle of the event have captured tons of little personal moments and blown them up to IMAX-size proportions." |
Eric Melin |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Shoot 'Em Up (2007) |
"Though it has no real characters and a completely nonsensical plot, it is a welcome respite from other uber-violent movies like 300 that are itself parodies and don't even realize it." |
Eric Melin |
Splat 2/4 |
Shrek the Third (2007) |
"Shrek standing up for himself means insisting that he is not King material, despite the fact that everyone around him believes he'd be a great leader." |
Eric Melin |
Splat 2/4 |
Shut Up & Sing (2006) |
"[It]offer[s] little more than a portrait of a band struggling to save face and keep their financial position intact." |
Eric Melin |
Tomato 4/4 |
Sicko (2007) |
"What makes Sicko such an effective op-ed piece is that it demands that its audience re-evaluate its thinking and ask the question, 'Who are we?'" |
Eric Melin |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Simpsons Movie (2007) |
"[It is] in the unique and unfair position of having a lot to live up to, and The Simpsons Movie is not quite up to the task." |
Eric Melin |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Sin Nombre (2009) |
"What makes it unique among films that cover similar subject matter is the restrained acting and richness of its visual sense." |
Eric Melin |
Tomato 3/4 |
Slither (2006) |
"...the next time you hear Air Supply's 'You're Every Woman in the World' in the dentist's office, you'll be more worried about something other than doctor's fingers sliding their way into your mouth." |
Eric Melin |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) |
"Most fairy tales are rooted first in nightmares, and if this story is any indication, there are plenty of those haunting the people of Mumbai." |
Eric Melin |
Splat .5/4 |
Smokin' Aces (2007) |
"This non-stop superficial mugging would not even have been cool if it had come out twelve years ago, when Tarantino rip-offs were as common as Hootie & the Blowfish hit singles." |
Eric Melin |
Splat 2/5 |
Sommersby (1993) |
No article available. |
Eric Melin |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Son of Rambow (2008) |
"Inspiration comes in all forms and writer/director Garth Jennings gets that idea across with equal parts cliché and whimsy." |
Eric Melin |
Tomato 3/4 |
Speed Racer (2008) |
"There is something freeing about watching this movie because it establishes early on that it's not playing by certain cinematic rules." |
Eric Melin |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Spider-Man 3 (2007) |
"Although Spider-Man 3 bites off a bit more than it can chew in the plotting department, it doesn't skip on character development, which is a hallmark of this series and the thing that sets it apart from its superhero kin." |
Eric Melin |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Spirit (2008) |
"Movies that exist in their own overheated genre-iffic world are not easy to swallow for a lot of audiences. The sheer joy with which Miller approaches this material, though, is infectious, and The Spirit grew on me even as it confounded me." |
Eric Melin |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Star Trek (2009) |
" ... has a lot of humor but is very serious about its premise ... about as good as Hollywood blockbusters get." |
Eric Melin |
Tomato 3/4 |
State of Play (2009) |
"It's as much a funeral procession for a dying art as it is a celebration of its ideals." |
Eric Melin |
Tomato 3/4 |
Stop-Loss (2008) |
"Told entirely from the point of view of the servicemen, it avoids the pitfalls that less-subtle, sloganeering Iraq war movies like "Lions for Lambs" fell into last year." |
Eric Melin |
Tomato 3/4 |
Stranger Than Fiction (2006) |
"A movie that begins with a challenging premise but ultimately settles for a more accessible "carpe diem" kind of message." |
Eric Melin |
Splat 2/4 |
The Strangers (2008) |
"I've got to credit Bertino with the sense enough to not resort to shocking gore to make up for lack of suspense. The final act, however, is as messy as a plate of spaghetti." |
Eric Melin |
Splat 2/5 |
Striptease (1996) |
No article available. |
Eric Melin |
Tomato 3/4 |
Sunshine (2007) |
"Sunshine does not achieve the unity of theme or abstract totality of 2001 (which remains the gold standard for the genre), but it does effectively grapple with provocative questions of morality and spirituality." |
Eric Melin |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Superbad (2007) |
"If only every comedy that comes out these days could be tinkered with for 12 years before it's released into theaters." |
Eric Melin |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Superman Returns (2006) |
"By emphasizing Superman's virtual omnipotence and also his sense of eternal heartbreak and loss, Singer's epic and lyrical movie has the same poignancy of a classic Greek tragedy." |
Eric Melin |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) |
"It's like Dario Argento blood just spurting everywhere..." |
Eric Melin |
Tomato 4/4 |
Synecdoche, New York (2008) |
"Kaufman has succeeded in portraying an unflinchingly honest and deep examination of the soul of a person without jumping through traditional hoops of this happened here, this happened next.'" |
Eric Melin |
Tomato 3/4 |
Syriana (2005) |
"...about as timely and captivating as modern issue-related cinema is likely to ever get.
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Eric Melin |
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