Splat |
S.W.A.T. (2003) |
"[N]ot... actively awful -- it’s just sort of boring and completely predictable and a little bit laughable in its psychology." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
S1m0ne (2002) |
"Niccol cleverly tweaks Hollywood’s delusional obsession with itself." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
- |
Saawariya (2007) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Saawariya (2007) |
"[A]n enrapturing movie, deliciously gorgeous and impossible not to fall in love with..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Sabah - A Love Story (2005) |
"It's not quite My Big Fat Syrian Forbidden Romance, but almost." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch: The Complete Animated Series (1971) |
"This horrendous early 70s throwback... is being marketed as some sort of hip retro cool thing, when it's really just an artifact from the era that was best left dead and buried." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
The Saddle Club - The First Adventure (2003) |
"[U]tterly inoffensive and completely harmless..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Sade (2002) |
"[A] treacherously seductive and highly disturbing film..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Sahara (2005) |
"[M]ight actually be worthy of licking the boots of Raiders of the Lost Ark..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
The Sally Lockhart Mysteries - Ruby in the Smoke (2006) |
"It's Nancy Drew meets Sherlock Holmes!... [Billie] Piper cannot hide how damn cool she is..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
The Sally Lockhart Mysteries - Shadow in the North (2007) |
"Billie Piper is even more spectacularly confident in her second outing as the young woman now daring enough to set herself up in the City, London's financial center, as a consultant..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Salton Sea (2002) |
"Tony Gayton’s script doesn't give us anything we haven't seen before, but director D.J. Caruso's grimy visual veneer and Kilmer's absorbing performance increase the gravitational pull considerably." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Samaritan Girl (2004) |
"[A]rcane and provocative film... cements [Ki-duk Kim’s] reputation as one of the most astonishing artists working in cinema today..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Samoan Wedding |
"[T]urns out that the immigrant Samoan culture Down Under looks remarkably like immigrant cultures all over the Western world: Irish, African, or even big fat Greek, you've seen this all before..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
- |
Santa Claus - The Movie (1986) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970) |
"Just say ‘Burgermeister Meisterburger’ to anyone over 30, and watch ‘em giggle. We all know this story..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 6/10 |
The Santa Clause (1994) |
"It opts for pleasant Christmas fantasy instead of phony sentimentality." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
The Santa Clause 2 (2002) |
"I was so caught up in its genuine, unsentimental Christmas magic that I forgot to be snide and sarcastic and cynical." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat 3/10 |
Santa With Muscles (1996) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
- |
Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour (2007) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour (2007) |
"[H]onestly, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo and the gang got into spookier situations than this." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Sarah Silverman Program - Season One (2007) |
"[H]er schtick seems deliberately calculated to induce paroxysms of nerdy joy in a specifically juvenile segment of the male audience..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Saturday Night Live - Best of Molly Shannon (2003) |
"[E]xcruciatingly unfunny..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Save The Green Planet! (2005) |
"Just when you think you’ve got a grip on what Planet is, Jang switches gears, while always maintaining an astonishing discipline..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Saved! (2004) |
"[A] wickedly funny takedown of that particular brand of isolationist religiosity that seeks to shut out the wider world..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 9/10 |
Saving Private Ryan (1998) |
"Saving Private Ryan is one of the most brilliant pieces of film ever created. I don't think I'll ever be able to watch it again." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Saving Silverman (2001) |
"Not only is it not funny, it's pathetically sad." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Saw (2004) |
"I take it as proof that Saw is half a parody of serial-killer movies... that Elwes goes stark raving bonkers off-the-deep-end awful in the film’s final moments." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Saw II (2005) |
"[T]he earnest message-ification... vies with the meaningless and sadistic violence as the most stomach-turning aspect of the flick." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Scary Movie 4 (2006) |
"Why must Hollywood torment so those of us with IQs in the triple digits?" |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Scenes of A Sexual Nature (2007) |
"It's mostly notable for the astonishing array of British film talent on display..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
- |
Scenes of A Sexual Nature (2007) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Scenes of the Crime (2001) |
"[S]urprisingly mushy..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 9/10 |
Schindler's List (1993) |
"While SCHINDLER'S LIST is the least Spielberg-ian and least showy of the director's work, it demonstrates an artistry that is at times highly stylized." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Schmelvis (2002) |
"[T]epid... lazily self-indulgent..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
School for Scoundrels (2006) |
"If Clueless is Jane Austen for people who don't know from books, then Scoundrels is farce for people who think Restoration comedy is when you spill a barrel of doorknobs in a fancy hardware store." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
School of Rock (2003) |
"[A]bout as rebellious and free and rockin' as a Clear Channel radio station, packaging payola-ed ‘cool’ for a mass audience and dishing out focus-grouped, MBA-approved ‘hip’..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
The Science of Sleep (2006) |
"What do you do when you're confronted with maybe the most wonderfully strange, most magically enchanting, most heartachingly romantic movie you've ever seen?" |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004) |
"This is not a review -- how could it be, as the film was not screened for this critic -- have I mentioned that? Instead, here are three alternate storylines..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Scooby-Doo - The Movie (2002) |
"When Matthew Lillard -- who has the highest Skeeve Quotient ever recorded -- is the best thing in a movie, you know you’re in deep doo-doo." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
The Scorpion King (2002) |
"Incredibly nonsensical balderdash but damn funny, and only about half unintentionally so." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Scotland, PA (2002) |
"The Bard as black comedy -- Willie would have loved it." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 9/10 |
Scream (1996) |
"Scream cleverly plays with movie conventions and the audience's expectations so that we're kept constantly guessing." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 6/10 |
Scream 2 (1997) |
"While Scream 2 made me chuckle and jump out of my seat a couple times, it feels, for the most part, like an exercise in self-reference that doesn't know how much of a good thing is too much." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 6/10 |
Scream 3 (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Scrooge (1970) |
"A roduction that suffers from its theatrical roots and its need to not only make its antihero see the error of his ways but go way overboard in making up for his past." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 9/10 |
Scrooged (1988) |
"Dickens would approve." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Scrubs - The Complete First Season (2001) |
"[V]eers from the profoundly silly to the achingly poignant, often in the same scene..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Scumrock (2002) |
"[U]nless honest intentions and street cred are enough for you, give this one a pass, because it doesn't quite pay off in the end." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
- |
Scumrock (2002) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
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