Splat 2/4 |
S.W.A.T. (2003) |
"A lifeless trudge through squandered opportunities and god-awful dialogue." |
Megan Lehmann |
Splat 2/4 |
S1m0ne (2002) |
"Staggers between flaccid satire and what is supposed to be madcap farce." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Tomato 3/4 |
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2004) |
"Devastating." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 1/4 |
Saawariya (2007) |
"How can it be that a movie as beautiful to look at as Saawariya is so...boring?" |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3/4 |
Sacco & Vanzetti (2007) |
"Miller, a New Yorker, uses archival footage, dramatized readings and talking heads, including Sacco's niece and a neighbor of Vanzetti's, to get his point across." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Sacred Family (2004) |
"The Sacred Family, Lelio's feature debut, unfolds over three days, the length of time it took to shoot the story." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Saddest Music in the World (2004) |
"There's no mistaking Saddest for anything but a Maddin production. An exceptional one, at that." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3/4 |
Sade (2002) |
"Director of photography Benoit Delhomme shot the movie in delicious colors, and the costumes and sets are grand." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Safe Conduct (2002) |
"Some episodes work, some don't." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 2/4 |
The Safety of Objects (2003) |
"Suffers from a case of too many dramas, too little time." |
Megan Lehmann |
Splat 2/4 |
Sahara (2005) |
"The one-liners, mostly bland, are used so liberally that they water down the action." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 3/4 |
Saint of 9/11 (2006) |
"... a cinematic elegy for Father Mychal Judge ..." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Saint Ralph (2005) |
"Writer-director Michael McGowan proves there's a reason people keep making underdog sports movies." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 3/4 |
Saints and Sinners (2004) |
"A quietly persuasive and very timely documentary." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Saints And Soldiers |
"There's little here to make this stand out in an already well-stuffed genre." |
Megan Lehmann |
Splat 0/4 |
The Salon (2005) |
"A feeble dramedy about a Baltimore beauty shop where someone should come in to sweep up the clichés." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Salton Sea (2002) |
"Confused and confusing contemporary noir." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Salvador Allende (2004) |
"[Director] Guzman's film is filled with revelations that will disturb many, including U.S. involvement in the coup. If only Guzman had been more innovative in his presentation." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 2/4 |
The Same River Twice (2003) |
"It would make a worthy entry on public TV, but just doesn't have the heft for a theatrical release." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3/4 |
Sangre de Mi Sangre (2008) |
"A suspenseful movie with no intention of sugarcoating the daily hardships of New York's underclass." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 2/4 |
The Santa Clause 2 (2002) |
"An intermittently amusing but soulless mechanism for the extraction of money from moviegoers." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Splat 0.5/4 |
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006) |
"Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause, with Martin Short as Jack Frost, means we're getting a turkey and a ham for the holidays." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 3/4 |
Santa Smokes (2004) |
"Who says you need a big crew and tons of money to make an enjoyable movie?" |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3/4 |
Saraband (2005) |
"Like watching four people take turns trying to swim with one of the others clinging to an ankle. It's grim and gripping." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 2/4 |
Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic (2005) |
"The comedian and her director, Liam Lynch, have framed about an hour's worth of concert footage with bogus backstage scenes to pad this out to feature length." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Satin Rouge (2002) |
"A sensual performance from Abbass buoys the flimsy story, but her inner journey is largely unexplored and we're left wondering about this exotic-looking woman whose emotional depths are only hinted at." |
Megan Turner |
Tomato 3/4 |
Saudade do futuro (2000) |
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Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Savage Grace (2008) |
"The movie is based on a true story, but for all its outré set pieces it never rises above the level of pretentious trash." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Savages (2007) |
"Darkly hilarious, Tamara Jenkins' The Savages captures the cruel demographic joke facing many boomers who are forced to take care of aging parents at a point when they haven't entirely figured out their own lives." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1/4 |
Save Me (2007) |
"Sounds like a great idea for a gay porno, but the soapy Save Me actually takes itself seriously." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 3/4 |
Save The Green Planet! (2005) |
"Director-writer Jang Jun-hwan starts things off with a bang and never looks back." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat |
Save the Last Dance (2001) |
"Recycles every cliché of the genre to sleep-inducing effect." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2/4 |
Saved! (2004) |
"The movie's satire is so mild that MGM is actually trying to market it to Christian audiences -- who will still find enough to be offended by -- but it provides a nice showcase for its young performers." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Saving Face (2005) |
"Tender and often extremely funny, Alice Wu's delightful debut feature, Saving Face, is a Chinese-American lesbian romance that wisely explores the tug-of-war between tradition and the need to be true to one's heart." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato |
Saving Grace (2000) |
"Beautifully shot on location with sure comic timing by director Nigel Coles, Saving Grace is a real high in a season filled with unfunny comedies." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2/4 |
Saving Shiloh (2006) |
"An OK kids movie passing through on the way to video." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat |
Saving Silverman (2001) |
"Someone ought to call the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Actors." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1/4 |
Saw (2004) |
"There are a few cheap thrills, but not enough to make sitting through the senseless plot even remotely worthwhile." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3/4 |
Saw II (2005) |
"Saw II has teeth, and this house-of-horrors franchise has legs, though they're manacled to the radiator." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat |
Saw III (2006) |
"Saw III is nasty, repulsive, disgusting -- and loaded with enough viscera to probably sell at least $30 million worth of tickets this weekend." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2/4 |
Saw IV (2007) |
"After two solid entries and an OK one, the franchise is getting long in the tooth: This one is Saw It Be-IV." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat |
Say It Isn't So (2001) |
"Lacks the inspiration, genuine wit and raunchy charm of 1998's outrageous There's Something About Mary." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Splat 0/4 |
Say Uncle (2006) |
"Laughless, pointless and downright creepy." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Scarlet Diva (2000) |
"This is an egotistical endeavor from the daughter of horror director Dario Argento (a producer here), but her raw performance and utter fearlessness make it strangely magnetic." |
Megan Turner |
Tomato |
Scary Movie (2000) |
"Everyone plays his or her part with just enough unself-conscious seriousness for the jokes to work." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Splat 0/4 |
Scary Movie 2 (2001) |
"So desperately unfunny that you wish someone would sue for false advertising." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2/4 |
Scary Movie 3 (2003) |
"Mediocre spoof." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Splat 1/4 |
Scary Movie 4 (2006) |
"There are relatively few laughs -- unless you crave toilet humor -- in this direct-to-video-grade installment." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 4/4 |
Schizo (2005) |
"A stylish portrait of down-on-their luck people with just one goal in life: survival." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 1/4 |
School for Scoundrels (2006) |
"This time the pace is so weak that long periods go by without even the whiff of a joke." |
Kyle Smith |
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