Splat 5/10 |
Saludos Amigos (1943) |
"Not a well-remembered bit of Disneyana, and I am not prepared to argue against the justice of that fact." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
Sans Soleil (1982) |
"Sans soleil is more intuitive than rational, and that makes it a singular, overpowering experience." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
Sanshô the Bailiff (1954) |
"You are well aware at every moment that you are watching something that has been assembled with utmost precision." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 3/10 |
The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973) |
"An original direction to take a tremendously played-out franchise, but I think I'd have been happier with no eighth Dracula film at all, rather than this particular eighth Dracula film." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
Savage Grace (2008) |
"More like an awful family's greatest hits than any sort of probing, comprehensive study." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
The Savages (2007) |
"It is the very particular humanity of the characters involved that makes it a successful and unique work of art." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 3/10 |
Saw (2004) |
"There is such a storm of terrible dialogue in Saw as to legitimately draw comparisons to none less than Ed Wood." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 2/10 |
Saw II (2005) |
"Quite hideous." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 1/10 |
Saw III (2006) |
"Nihilistic, amoral, self-congratulatory wanking." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 2/10 |
Saw IV (2007) |
"Perfunctory and confusing and needlessly over-plotty...but somewhat better-constructed and significantly less morally outrageous than at the very least Saw III." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 3/10 |
Saw V (2008) |
"Square in the middle of the series, quality-wise: though the new film has some unabashedly dumb moments, its plot lacks the pathetic contortions that we saw in Saw IV" |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 3/10 |
Saw VI (2009) |
"A triumph (a very relative triumph) for two reasons: first, it is not so confusing as Saw IV, and second, it is not so sleepy and wholly pointless as Saw V." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
Sawdust and Tinsel (1953) |
"Not just a showcase for motifs that Bergman would use to create masterpieces later; it's a great film all by itself." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
Scars of Dracula (1970) |
"A rattling collection of warmed-over ideas filmed on a paltry budget...doesn't do anything that Dracula and Prince of Darkness didn't already do better." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
Scream (1996) |
"Self-knowing badness is in fact badness; it might actually be worse than just regular old badness because it is, in addition to everything else, smug." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
Scream 2 (1997) |
"There's a lot more going on here than in Scream... So why isn't it a slam dunk? Because of the writing, which is just lousy in any number of ways." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 3/10 |
Scream 3 (2000) |
"A bad slasher movie, made by a talented man who brought hardly a one of his talents to bear." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 6/10 |
Scrooge (1970) |
"[Finney is] the only element of this production that is really up to much good... the film lacks energy or dramatic thrust." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Scrooged (1988) |
"A meaningful Christmas Carol this is not, but a perfectly entertaining yuletide comedy this certainly is." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
The Secret of NIMH (1982) |
"The award-winning book had a pretty crackerjack story to begin with, but in some respects, I think Bluth and his co-writers have bettered it." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
See You in the Morning (1989) |
"It might have been nice to actually have some kind of emotional response to it, in addition to just nodding and thinking, "ah yes, this seems to be properly observed."" |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
Semi-Pro (2008) |
"Very probably the worst of Ferrell's starring vehicles." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
Senso (1955) |
"Triumphs on the strength of [Alida Valli's] presence..you'd have to go very far to find a more luscious movie." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
Séraphine (2008) |
"An uncommonly moving and wonderful experience: it is a cinematic depiction of a mindset, and a quiet and especially internal mindset at that." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 0/10 |
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) |
"A motion picture whose awfulness can hardly be imagined on a human scale." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
A Serious Man (2009) |
"A masterpiece; maybe even their best since Fargo. It is certainly the most deeply felt." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 3/10 |
Seven Pounds (2008) |
"Only the most morbidly inattentive viewer could possibly fail to figure out virtually every twist in the story from details supplied in the first five minutes." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
Seventh Heaven (1927) |
"The kind of movie that births a lifelong love affair with silent cinema... I'd be extraordinarily hard-pressed to come up with any way in which it's not flawless." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 6/10 |
Severance (2007) |
"For the most part, the scary parts are the scary parts, the funny parts are the funny parts, and never the twain meet." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
Shine a Light (2008) |
"Though it does not redefine the boundaries of the concert film like The Last Waltz did, Marty's love letter to the Stones is much more than alright; in fact it's a gas." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
Shoah (1985) |
"The chief success of the film...is to remove the Holocaust from its comfortably horrifying place in history, and restore a human face to the atrocities." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
Shoot 'Em Up (2007) |
"The real problem is that 80 minutes of essentially non-stop action...are eventually wearying" |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
A Short Film About Killing (1988) |
"One of the ugliest movies ever made, and that's just exactly the way it should be: it takes place in an irredeemably ugly world." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
A Short Film About Love (1988) |
"Far more compelling and beautiful than the Dekalog episode which shares its story." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
Shrek the Third (2007) |
"It's far too open in its desires (MAKING MONEY) to be hate-worthy." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 3/10 |
Shutter (2008) |
"What happens is the same as every other J-horror remake only less so, at least in part because it stars Rachael Taylor and Joshua Jackson instead of actual famous people." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
Sicko (2007) |
"Sure, it makes some mistakes, but it got the job done. It's gotten Middle America talking about socialized healthcare." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Sita Sings the Blues (2008) |
"Among the most visually distinctive movies of the year." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 6/10 |
Sleepaway Camp (1983) |
"Not a particularly effective movie... [but] it is an exceptionally memorable one - one that lingers in the brain, disturbing and discomfiting." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 2/10 |
Sleepaway Camp 2 - Unhappy Campers (1988) |
"If your main reason for seeing a movie is a big quantity of corpses, then Unhappy Campers is right up your alley." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 3/10 |
Sleepaway Camp 3 - Teenage Wasteland (1989) |
"The direct-to-video sequel to a direct-to-video sequel; ah, the '80s!" |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
Sleeping Beauty (1959) |
"One of the handful of Disney features that can be rightfully called perfect." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
Sleuth (2007) |
"This was never going to be a masterpiece, but it didn't have to be nearly so frustrating." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) |
"Such style! ...the most exhilarating movie of prestige season, even as it is almost entirely taken up with suffering." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 6/10 |
Smart People (2008) |
"Dennis Quaid's performance is the only thing that keeps the film from tipping too far into flat-out misanthropy." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
Snow Angels (2008) |
"The most-flawed film by a tremendously important American director." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) |
"There are only a tiny number of films that have come anywhere close to equaling its achievement." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 6/10 |
The Soloist (2009) |
"The story surely is interesting, but in this form, not terribly enlightening." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 6/10 |
Son of Dracula (1943) |
"While it is quite silly and suffers from one of the worst casting decisions in the 33 year history of the classic Universal horror, Son of Dracula is actually halfway decent." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Son of Frankenstein (1939) |
"A surprisingly good effort to extend the narrative of the first two films in a manner both intelligent and likely." |
Tim Brayton |
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