Splat 2/4 |
S.W.A.T. (2003) |
"A high-octane, brain-dead action picture that happens to feature cops as the characters." |
James Berardinelli |
Splat 2/4 |
S1m0ne (2002) |
"This is the case of a pregnant premise being wasted by a script that takes few chances and manages to insult the intelligence of everyone in the audience." |
James Berardinelli |
Tomato 3/4 |
Sabrina (1954) |
"Hampered by an unimaginative script ... nevertheless manages to be a thoroughly charming, delightfully romantic variation of the Cinderella story." |
James Berardinelli |
Tomato 3/4 |
Sabrina (1995) |
"Despite the unambitious, formula-driven plot, wonderful performances by Julia Ormond and, especially, Harrison Ford keep this remake afloat." |
James Berardinelli |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Safe (1995) |
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James Berardinelli |
Splat 2/4 |
Safe Men (1998) |
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James Berardinelli |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Safe Passage (1994) |
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James Berardinelli |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Safety of Objects (2003) |
"Not a complete waste of time, but it doesn't make us feel the way better dramas do, and, in the end, it lacks the qualities that would make it memorable or powerful." |
James Berardinelli |
Splat 2/4 |
Sahara (2005) |
"This is a Mystery Science Theater 3000 special." |
James Berardinelli |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Saint (1997) |
"The Saint is lightly entertaining, but there's very little here worth getting excited about." |
James Berardinelli |
Tomato 3/4 |
Salton Sea (2002) |
"A thriller with an edge -- which is to say that it doesn't follow the stale, standard, connect-the-dots storyline which has become commonplace in movies that explore the seamy underbelly of the criminal world." |
James Berardinelli |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Sandlot (1993) |
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James Berardinelli |
Splat 2/4 |
The Santa Clause (1994) |
"This is what happens when someone takes what might have been a moderately- entertaining television Christmas special and tries to adapt it for the big screen." |
James Berardinelli |
Splat 2/4 |
The Santa Clause 2 (2002) |
"Entirely inoffensive, so it makes for perfect family fare -- but only if the children are young enough to be indiscriminating about what they're seeing." |
James Berardinelli |
Splat 2/4 |
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006) |
"Perfect entertainment for five-year olds and sheer torture for the unlucky parent(s) accompanying them to the theater." |
James Berardinelli |
Tomato 3/4 |
Savage Nights (1994) |
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James Berardinelli |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Savages (2007) |
"These are fascinating, three-dimensional individuals brought into the foreground by a pair of today's finest actors." |
James Berardinelli |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Save the Last Dance (2001) |
"The work of Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas elevates Save the Last Dance to a level where it is not only watchable, but moderately entertaining." |
James Berardinelli |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Saved! (2004) |
"This is a shallow, anti-Christian film that relies on tired stereotypes and familiar situations to tar (and feather) everything with the same brush." |
James Berardinelli |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Saving Grace (2000) |
"The familiar, derivative feel is in part offset by a hard-to-deny level of appeal." |
James Berardinelli |
Tomato 4/4 |
Saving Private Ryan (1998) |
"For those who are willing to brave the movie's shocking and unforgettable images, Saving Private Ryan offers a singular motion picture experience." |
James Berardinelli |
Tomato 3/4 |
Saving Silverman (2001) |
"Pretty consistently funny, and that's about all one can ask from this kind of motion picture." |
James Berardinelli |
Tomato 3/4 |
Saw (2004) |
"On the strength of a grippingly original concept and 90 strong minutes of building action, Saw gets a recommendation, but only if you like this kind of thing." |
James Berardinelli |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Saw IV (2007) |
"Easily the worst and most pointless episode of the gore-saturated quadrology." |
James Berardinelli |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Say Anything (1989) |
"Smart, well-developed characters, believable situations, and a solid emotional investment for us in the film's people and circumstances" |
James Berardinelli |
Splat 1/4 |
Say It Isn't So (2001) |
"Say It Isn't So is the kind of movie that makes Dumb & Dumber and Kingpin, a couple of early Farrelly Brothers movies I was not fond of, seem like comedic triumphs." |
James Berardinelli |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Scarface (1983) |
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James Berardinelli |
Splat 2/4 |
The Scarlet Letter (1995) |
"Literary purists will be aghast at some of the liberties taken with the original text, but my complaints have more to do with cinematic misjudgments than with those in the book-to-screen translation." |
James Berardinelli |
Tomato 3/4 |
Scary Movie (2000) |
"This movie, by any name, would be as entertaining." |
James Berardinelli |
Splat 2/4 |
Scary Movie 2 (2001) |
"Aside from a few genuinely funny gags, this motion picture represents an 80-minute exercise into tedium that does little more than re-hash the first outing." |
James Berardinelli |
Splat 1/4 |
Scary Movie 3 (2003) |
"The Naked Gun 33 1/3 wasn't the final insult from a founding ZAZ (Zucker/Abrams/Zucker) member; this is." |
James Berardinelli |
Splat 2/4 |
Scary Movie 4 (2006) |
"It's a far cry from the hilarious, edgy antics of Scary Movie, but it has about as much going for it as the first sequel." |
James Berardinelli |
Tomato 3/4 |
Scent of a Woman (1992) |
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James Berardinelli |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Scent of Green Papaya (1993) |
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James Berardinelli |
Tomato 4/4 |
Schindler's List (1993) |
"Because this film touches us so deeply, the catharsis has a power that few -- if any -- other moments in film history can match." |
James Berardinelli |
Splat 2/4 |
School for Scoundrels (2006) |
"School for Scoundrels feels like a wasted opportunity." |
James Berardinelli |
Tomato 3/4 |
School of Flesh (1998) |
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James Berardinelli |
Splat 2/4 |
School of Rock (2003) |
"A string of cliches lashed together by a formulaic plot that features underwritten characters and sit-com style humor." |
James Berardinelli |
Splat 2/4 |
The Science of Sleep (2006) |
"What Eternal Sunshine did with magic and whimsy, The Science of Sleep accomplishes with confusion and pretentiousness." |
James Berardinelli |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Scooby-Doo - The Movie (2002) |
"The movie drags, and the occasional bursts of mirth and self-referential humor can't save it from bogging down." |
James Berardinelli |
Splat 2/4 |
Scoop (2006) |
"A blend of lackluster comedy and lazy plotting, the film feels a lot like bad Hitchcock." |
James Berardinelli |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Score (2001) |
"As heist movies go, this one is on the low side of mediocre." |
James Berardinelli |
Splat 2/4 |
The Scorpion King (2002) |
"Big men with big muscles aren't what they used to be." |
James Berardinelli |
Tomato 3/4 |
Scotland, PA (2002) |
"Peppered with witty dialogue and inventive moments." |
James Berardinelli |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Scout (1994) |
"It's been a long time since there's been a good baseball movie. The Scout makes you wonder if there's ever going to be one again." |
James Berardinelli |
Tomato 3/4 |
Scream (1996) |
"Scream is a rarity: a horror movie spoof that succeeds almost as well at provoking scares as laughs." |
James Berardinelli |
Tomato 3/4 |
Scream 2 (1997) |
"The movie is enjoyable." |
James Berardinelli |
Splat 2/4 |
Scream 3 (2000) |
"Unfortunately, there's nothing here that even the most inexperienced horror film fan would call innovative, and the predictable result is a movie that pales in comparison with its predecessors." |
James Berardinelli |
Tomato 3/4 |
Screamers (1996) |
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James Berardinelli |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Scrooge (1970) |
"Unlike the great musicals, where you might find yourself humming a tune a few days later, with Scrooge, you'll be lucky if you remember the name of one of the songs a few hours later." |
James Berardinelli |
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