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Safe Conduct (2002) |
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Stanley Kauffmann |
Tomato |
Sangre de Mi Sangre (2008) |
"Plot flaws and all, we can be glad that the picture was made -- because of its acting." |
Stanley Kauffmann |
Splat |
Savage Grace (2008) |
"Unfortunately for all its assets, especially Moore, Savage Grace leaves us somewhat empty-handed." |
Stanley Kauffmann |
Tomato |
The Savages (2007) |
"Linney and Hoffman are both terrific, and Jenkins's script is pointed and perceptive, but the film's arc is a little flat." |
Christopher Orr |
Splat |
Seabiscuit (2003) |
"In the structure of his screenplay Ross has taken a risk, and he has not quite brought it off." |
Stanley Kauffmann |
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Search & Destroy (1995) |
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Stanley Kauffmann |
Tomato |
The Secret Life of Words (2006) |
"Like Ceylan -- like many a fine director -- Coixet has made her film less as a drama than as the traversal of a state of mind, a mood." |
Stanley Kauffmann |
Tomato |
The Secret Lives of Dentists (2003) |
"Rudolph's past work has been spotty, but his stress here on familial sovereignty is moving, as is his direction of the three children." |
Stanley Kauffmann |
Tomato |
Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII (2002) |
"It lets us glimpse once again the stubborn, if slender, persistence of the humane." |
Stanley Kauffmann |
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Secrets & Lies (1996) |
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Stanley Kauffmann |
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A Self Made Hero (1997) |
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Stanley Kauffmann |
Tomato |
Séraphine (2008) |
"Provost has made a picture that is almost biblical in its simplicity and its passion." |
Stanley Kauffmann |
Tomato |
Series 7: The Contenders (2001) |
"'Reality' notwithstanding, the performances in this film are uniformly good, and Brooke Smith as Dawn is better than that." |
Stanley Kauffmann |
Splat |
A Serious Man (2009) |
"Humor and empathy alike have trouble flourishing in the grim narrative soil the Coens provide, in which every cosmic joke is a black one." |
Christopher Orr |
Splat |
Seven Pounds (2008) |
"[A] dour, morally beclouded film that confuses generosity and grief, self-abnegation and self-annihilation." |
Christopher Orr |
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Sex and the City: The Complete First Season (1998) |
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Lee Siegel |
Tomato |
Shallow Grave (1995) |
"The three ... especially Fox--do well." |
Stanley Kauffmann |
Tomato |
Shanghai Ghetto (2002) |
"All of this story is engrossing, especially because it unfolds something more than political data." |
Stanley Kauffmann |
Splat |
She Hate Me (2004) |
"Lee presumably had two ideas, one an exposé of pharmaceutical greed, the other a sex comedy: then he decided that neither one would make a film in itself and came up with the lame idea of combining them." |
Stanley Kauffmann |
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Shine (1996) |
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Stanley Kauffmann |
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Showgirls (1995) |
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Stanley Kauffmann |
Splat |
The Siege (1998) |
"Just about distinguishable from several dozen predecessors in the same apocalyptic vein." |
Stanley Kauffmann |
Tomato |
Sin Nombre (2009) |
"Fukunaga's gift lies not in inventing clever reversals, but in declining to provide us with the typical cinematic cues that advertise what's coming." |
Christopher Orr |
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Since Otar Left (2004) |
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Stanley Kauffmann |
Tomato |
Sleuth (2007) |
"This film wants only to entertain, and other talents have gathered with Pinter to help." |
Stanley Kauffmann |
Tomato |
Sling Blade (1996) |
"[Thornton] performance is so good that his directing may be slighted." |
Stanley Kauffmann |
Tomato |
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) |
"[E]ven at its most harrowing and heartbreaking, Slumdog Millionaire is never less than deliriously entertaining." |
Christopher Orr |
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Small Wonders (1995) |
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Stanley Kauffmann |
Tomato |
Snatch (2001) |
"The cinematic dazzle, the high pitch to which he leads his actors, the relish of sheer velocity are reward enough." |
Stanley Kauffmann |
Tomato |
Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001) |
"An important appendix to Lanzmann's work." |
Stanley Kauffmann |
Splat |
The Soloist (2009) |
"[Director Joe Wright's] treatment of the material is so literal that at times the film seems like a syllabus for Remedial Cinematic Technique 101." |
Christopher Orr |
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Some Mother's Son (1996) |
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Stanley Kauffmann |
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Son Frere (2004) |
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Stanley Kauffmann |
Tomato |
Sonatine (1993) |
"Gross and trite as the material is, Kitano shows again that he is an ingenious, purposeful filmmaker." |
Stanley Kauffmann |
Tomato |
The Song of Sparrows (2009) |
"It is somehow congenial to feel that we are watching a tale that could have been told elsewhere." |
Stanley Kauffmann |
Tomato |
The Spanish Apartment (2003) |
"It's hard to complain about a film that combines Paris and the city in the world that is most like it." |
Stanley Kauffmann |
Tomato |
Spartan (2004) |
"Mamet's understanding of the essentials here and his skill in supplying them are not major achievements for him, but it would be wasteful not to recognize them." |
Stanley Kauffmann |
Splat |
Speed Racer (2008) |
"Speed Racer intends to convey a sense of heedless momentum, but it drags painfully." |
Christopher Orr |
Tomato |
Spider-Man 3 (2007) |
"Spider-Man 3 offers a touching portrait of the need for humility in the face of great success. It's a lesson the creators of this oversized blockbuster-in-waiting might have taken a little more to heart." |
Christopher Orr |
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Spy Game (2001) |
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Stanley Kauffmann |
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Stages (2008) |
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Stanley Kauffmann |
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The Star Maker (1995) |
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Stanley Kauffmann |
Tomato |
Star Trek (2009) |
"In his daft, dizzy reinvention of a moribund franchise, Abrams has found a way to be referential without being reverential, to conjure nostalgia without being constrained by it." |
Christopher Orr |
Splat |
Star Wars (1977) |
"His work here seems less inventive than in THX 1138." |
Stanley Kauffmann |
Splat |
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999) |
"I can't convey the essence of the plot because I wasn't clear about it even as it was happening." |
Stanley Kauffmann |
Splat |
State of Play (2009) |
"[A] film that has spent an hour and forty-five minutes puffing itself into a battle for the Soul of American Democracy feebly hisses its way to a deflated conclusion." |
Christopher Orr |
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Stiff Upper Lips (1998) |
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Stanley Kauffmann |
Tomato |
Stolen (2006) |
"Whatever the outcome of all this hugger-mugger, as yet unresolved, Stolen gives us hints about a special sort of muscle." |
Stanley Kauffmann |
Tomato |
The Straight Story (1999) |
"Lynch has made a small epic that echoes and enlarges in memory." |
Stanley Kauffmann |
Tomato |
Stranded (2008) |
"We are a bit less fraudulently sure of ourselves afterward." |
Stanley Kauffmann |
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