Splat |
S.W.A.T. (2003) |
"A noisy, standard-issue cop actioner." |
Kirk Honeycutt |
Splat |
S1m0ne (2002) |
"Never fully establishes the credibility of its premise nor does the satire have much sting." |
Kirk Honeycutt |
Splat |
Saawariya (2007) |
"For audiences unaccustomed to the format, the film runs too long -- though it is short by Bollywood standards -- and is repetitive, sentimental and cliched." |
Kirk Honeycutt |
Splat |
Sacred Planet (2003) |
"In this well-intentioned celebration of nature and traditional ways of life, giant-screen images feel generic when they should inspire wonder." |
Sheri Linden |
Splat |
The Saddest Music in the World (2004) |
"A viewer takes in this circus of bizarre characters and absurdist images ... with an appreciation for the inventiveness, but a wish that one might be more involved or at least entertained by the stylistic workout." |
Kirk Honeycutt |
Tomato |
Safe Conduct (2002) |
"It's a clear-eyed portrait of an intensely lived time, filled with nervous energy, moral ambiguity and great uncertainties." |
Kirk Honeycutt |
Tomato |
The Safety of Objects (2003) |
"With a long running time that no amount of nonlinear construction can successfully quicken, Safety does have sequences and whole story lines that are fresh and thoughtfully entertaining." |
David Hunter |
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Sahara (1943) |
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Splat |
Sahara (2005) |
"What it is is a big summer action movie that would have been hot stuff about 30 years ago but looks tired and worn today despite a perky, attractive cast that refuses to wilt in the desert sun." |
Kirk Honeycutt |
Tomato |
Saint Ralph (2005) |
"A tart and tender comedy that pulls off a little miracle of its own by being genuinely heartwarming without leaving any cloyingly sticky emotional residue." |
Michael Rechtshaffen |
Splat |
Saints and Sinners (2004) |
"As with so many of the low-budget, video-shot documentaries currently managing to achieve theatrical release, too often Saints and Sinners has the feel of a home movie of greater interest to its participants than to an audience." |
Frank Scheck |
Tomato |
Saints And Soldiers |
"Little neatly ratchets up the suspense while throwing emotional spotlights on the inner struggles of each combatant trapped in this hostile, frozen wilderness riddled with German troops." |
Kirk Honeycutt |
Splat |
The Salon (2005) |
"This girl-talk comedy is a cut below its predecessors." |
Duane Byrge |
Tomato |
Salton Sea (2002) |
"A quirky little crime thriller with considerable style and energy to burn." |
Michael Rechtshaffen |
Splat |
Samaritan Girl (2004) |
"It's hard to say what Kim is driving at here." |
Kirk Honeycutt |
Tomato |
The Same River Twice (2003) |
"Poignant but not particularly deep." |
Frank Scheck |
Tomato |
The Samsara (2003) |
"Nalin's film has excellent production values and thoroughly transports one to its far-flung world of clear skies, jagged mountains and passionate affairs of the mind and body." |
David Hunter |
Tomato |
Sandstorm (2000) |
"The movie does reward the viewer with superb acting and an unblinking look at a backward desert culture virtually unchanged for generations." |
Kirk Honeycutt |
Splat |
Sangre (2005) |
"Escalante's snail-paced depiction of how Mexican 'telenovelas' might cause an essentially decent, if spineless and unimaginative, man to react to a family disaster with an act of reckless melodrama fails to convince." |
Ray Bennett |
- |
Sansa (2003) |
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Tomato |
The Santa Clause 2 (2002) |
"Contains just enough good cheer to surmount overbaked writing and overblown visual effects." |
Kirk Honeycutt |
- |
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006) |
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Splat |
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006) |
"What is seriously missing here is any sense of fun and warmth, which the other movies did possess. This one looks like work." |
Kirk Honeycutt |
Tomato |
Santa vs. the Snowman (2002) |
"If the film has a problem, its shortness disappoints: You want the story to go on and on." |
Kirk Honeycutt |
Tomato |
Saraband (2005) |
"If ultimately the highly talky Saraband comes across as a minor entry in the canon, it nonetheless marks a dignified farewell (and this time it really appears to be one) for one of cinema's greatest directors." |
Frank Scheck |
Splat |
Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic (2005) |
"Those musical interludes interrupt the flow of Silverman's carefully pitched act just as distractingly as the heckling of a drunken patron." |
Michael Rechtshaffen |
Tomato |
Satin Rouge (2002) |
"The way Lilia loosens up and learns to dance enticingly for men in a timeless ritual that is empowering and not demeaning is Satin at its most engaging." |
David Hunter |
- |
Saturday Night Fever (1977) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato |
Savage Grace (2008) |
"By scrupulously avoiding melodrama, [director] Kalin ensures that the characters remain recognizably human despite their flaws and monstrous weaknesses." |
Bernard Besserglik |
Splat |
Savage Soul (2004) |
"A faltering and confused tale." |
Judith Prescott |
- |
The Savages (2007) |
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Tomato |
The Savages (2007) |
"Jenkins walks this dramatic tightrope with breathtaking ease. The humor is never forced but always springs from the characters and situations naturally." |
Kirk Honeycutt |
Tomato |
Save The Green Planet! (2005) |
"The film's success is mainly down to its vibrant energy. Cinematography is zappy, making much use of tricky visual effects, and performances are manic." |
Richard James Havis |
Splat |
Save the Last Dance (2001) |
"The core of the movie is a disarmingly shameless lift from half the dance movies ever made." |
Kirk Honeycutt |
Splat |
Saved! (2004) |
"Saved! serves up the treachery of modern-day high school crowded with stereotypical characters and generic conventions. Unfortunately, the film pontificates with a smug brashness, glorifying in its own slight subversions." |
Duane Byrge |
Tomato |
Saving Face (2005) |
"A frothy delight, robust with strong and conflicted characters." |
Duane Byrge |
Tomato |
Saving Marriage (2008) |
"Equally effective as a human interest story and political thriller." |
Frank Scheck |
Tomato |
Saving Shiloh (2006) |
"Plain and simple but never simple-minded." |
Sheri Linden |
Splat |
Saving Silverman (2001) |
"Falls flat in almost every way a film can." |
Kirk Honeycutt |
Tomato |
Saw (2004) |
"Saw boasts an undeniably original premise and clever plot machinations that lift it several notches above the usual slasher film level." |
Frank Scheck |
Tomato |
Saw II (2005) |
"If the machinations don't quite make the startling impact of those in the original, they also far outshine the pedestrian mayhem on display in the current horror glut." |
Frank Scheck |
Splat |
Saw III (2006) |
"The inevitable deadening effects of repetition are beginning to infect the Saw franchise, now having produced its third installment in as many years." |
Frank Scheck |
- |
Saw IV (2007) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat |
Saw IV (2007) |
"The famously inventive torture sequences here seem depleted of imagination." |
Frank Scheck |
Splat |
Saw V (2008) |
"The creatives behind the franchise clearly have taken pride in their stylistic consistency throughout the series, but here they even fail to deliver enough of the cleverly gruesome Rube Goldberg torture devices that are its raison d’etre." |
Frank Scheck |
Splat |
Saw VI (2009) |
"After six installments, it's not exactly cutting edge." |
Frank Scheck |
Splat |
Say It Isn't So (2001) |
"A one-joke short padded with lame misunderstandings, malevolent subterfuge and absurd coincidences that annoy rather than amuse." |
Kirk Honeycutt |
Splat |
Say Uncle (2006) |
"As written and portrayed by Paige, his protagonist comes across a lot less like an oddball, misunderstood naif than he does an irritatingly self-absorbed loser with some serious boundary issues." |
Michael Rechtshaffen |
Tomato |
Scarlet Diva (2000) |
"The film, while not exactly assured in its execution, is notable for its sheer audacity and openness." |
Frank Scheck |
Splat |
Scary Movie (2000) |
"It's scary that it took six people to write a movie this bad." |
Kirk Honeycutt |
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