Splat |
S.W.A.T. (2003) |
"The director, a TV guy named Clark Johnson, doesn't shoot action very well, which is sort of a handicap." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic (2005) |
"Silverman's onstage persona might be limited, but it's endlessly resonant." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Saw (2004) |
"An ingenious machine for inducing terror, rage, and paralyzing unease." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Say It Isn't So (2001) |
"More sweet than offensive." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Scary Movie 4 (2006) |
"Not surprisingly, the fourth installment is a total retread of its predecessor." |
Ben Wasserstein |
Tomato |
School of Rock (2003) |
"School of Rock is uncut bliss." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
The Science of Sleep (2006) |
"To me, the movie feels like a small but ingeniously crafted gift, like the stuffed horse Stéphane outfits with a tiny motor for his beloved's pleasure." |
Dana Stevens |
Splat |
The Score (2001) |
"A droning, high-toned little heist picture with no dash and no raison d'être." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Seabiscuit (2003) |
"The best thing about Seabiscuit is that it will make a lot of people hungry to read the book. They've seen the pretty pictures; now they'll want to enter the world." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
The Secret Life of Bees (2008) |
"It's hard to roll your eyes when they're full of tears." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
The Secret Lives of Dentists (2003) |
"The filmmakers manage to jazz up Smiley's tempo without losing her melancholy tone; and they find a way -- without being untrue to the book -- to make the stubbornly recessive protagonist seem a dynamo on the screen." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
The Sentinel (2006) |
"There are thousands of us in over-air-conditioned screening rooms all over the country, throwing our bodies between you and bad movies. When I see a bullet coming, I'll take the hit so you don't have to. Don't thank me, ma'am. It's my job." |
Grady Hendrix |
Tomato |
Serenity (2005) |
"I mean Serenity no disrespect when I say it's enjoyably junky." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Series 7: The Contenders (2001) |
"It's only fitting that we emerge from Series 7 feeling both entertained and implicated." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
A Serious Man (2009) |
"An exquisitely realized work; the filmmakers' technical mastery of their craft, always impressive, has become absolute." |
Dana Stevens |
Splat |
Session 9 (2001) |
"The final illuminations ... are a poor return on nearly two hours of ear-buckling, eye-stabbing incoherence." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Sex and the City - The Movie (2008) |
"The movie's initially brisk pacing slackens when the girls spend a holiday in Mexico that's long enough for them to cycle through an entire resort-wear collection." |
Dana Stevens |
- |
Sex and the City: The Complete First Season (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
Virginia Heffernan |
Tomato |
Sexy Beast (2001) |
"Riotously entertaining, and with a big heart, too." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Shadow of the Vampire (2000) |
"The screenplay, by Steven Katz, suffers from arch, almost unspeakably theatrical dialogue, and, as Murnau, John Malkovich recites his lines as if monomania were synonymous with monotonic: He drains the drama of blood." |
David Edelstein |
- |
Shadows (1959) |
Click here to see the review. |
Elbert Ventura |
Tomato |
Shaolin Soccer (2002) |
"It's the sort of movie that leaves you smiling like an idiot." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
The Shape of Things (2003) |
"In LaBute's movies, people are either clueless dupes or psychotic manipulators, while art is meant to rub your face in unpleasant 'truths.' And I think he takes a little too much pleasure in that nose-rubbing." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Shattered Glass (2003) |
"It doesn't have the shape of a great drama: It has some whopping omissions, and its uplifting climax is an eye-roller. But it makes us feel the way our forefathers must have felt after a really good public stoning." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Shaun of the Dead (2004) |
"I love George Romero's zombie pictures, and I love deadpan English humor, but I had no idea that the two would mesh as happily as they (mostly) do in Shaun of the Dead." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Shoot 'Em Up (2007) |
"I get it that as soon as graphic novels or video games are invoked as references in a movie, we're all supposed to chuckle indulgently at the content. But I refuse to relinquish my right to be repelled by this nasty piece of work." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Shooter (2007) |
"Though much of the action in Shooter is beautifully photographed, the movie's force is as a blunt instrument of metaphor." |
Dana Stevens |
Splat |
Shopgirl (2005) |
"Shopgirl is sadly vacuous, with a sadly vacuous center." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Shrek 2 (2004) |
"Should ideally be seen twice -- once with kids, once savored at something like a midnight show." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Sicko (2007) |
"Even Moore's worst ideological enemies would be hard put to dispute the basic argument of his new film Sicko: The American health-care system is a sick joke and has been for a very long time." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Sideways (2004) |
"This is a lovely film—agreeably rambling." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Silver City (2004) |
"The movie takes off into the comic stratosphere in its first sequence and then slowly sinks to Earth, made logy by its noble means and Sayles' increasing inability to shoot anything but fat clots of undramatic talk in the most boring manner imaginable." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
The Simpsons Movie (2007) |
"The Simpsons Movie is as hard to critique as it is to resist." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Sin City (2005) |
"I loved it, I loved it, I loved it. I loved every gorgeous sick disgusting ravishing overbaked blood-spurting artificial frame of it." |
David Edelstein |
- |
Singin' in the Rain (1952) |
Click here to see the review. |
Bryan Curtis |
- |
Six Feet Under - The Complete First Season (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
Emily Nussbaum |
Tomato |
Slither (2006) |
"There's something winning about this grab bag of orally fixated invertebrates and mucus-covered Noids." |
Josh Levin |
Tomato |
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) |
"Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire is a stylish, ingeniously constructed bit of hokum, a sparkling trinket of a movie that's as implausible as it is irresistible." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Smart People (2008) |
"As tough as Lawrence is to like, Smart People is even harder to hate, mainly because of the sharply observed script by novelist Mark Jude Poirier." |
Dana Stevens |
Splat |
Smokin' Aces (2007) |
"A gruesome Cannonball Run with Piven flesh as the trophy, Smokin' Aces is a depressingly nihilistic entry in the Tarantino/Guy Ritchie/Ocean's Eleven caper genre." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Snakes on a Plane (2006) |
"There's no possibility it leaves unexplored. Snakes in a cockpit dashboard, snakes in a barf bag, in a runaway drink cart hurtling down the center aisle -- and that's saving the best reptile-in-an-unexpected-spot gags for your viewing pleasure." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Solaris (2002) |
"A solemn, splintered meditation on lost love: a movie about personal space, in space." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Something's Gotta Give (2003) |
"The movie itself reveals nothing, but it's entertaining." |
David Edelstein |
- |
Something's Gotta Give (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
Mimi Swartz |
Tomato |
The Son (2003) |
"This is an astonishing movie." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Sonny (2002) |
"Nicolas Cage isn't the first actor to lead a group of talented friends astray, and this movie won't create a ruffle in what is already an erratic career." |
Michael Agger |
Tomato |
Spanglish (2004) |
"The movie is what in Hollywood they call 'character-driven,' and it does take its sweet time. But much of that time is sweet indeed." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Spartan (2004) |
"The first hour of Spartan can make you sick with dread, like the first season of the TV series 24 ... The last half-hour of Spartan is still entertaining, but it's laughable." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Speed Racer (2008) |
"Shapes hurtle toward you, then recede abruptly, each bearing some fragment of narrative information that has now passed you by forever. Nausea and anxiety begin to wash over you in overlapping waves." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Spellbound (2003) |
"Spellbound is a gorgeous weave." |
David Edelstein |
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