Tomato |
Sabrina (1954) |
"This is never less than glittering entertainment, but somehow a certain measure of lead has found its way into the formula." |
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Sabrina (1995) |
"We remain outside the fourth wall looking in but are never drawn in; bemused perhaps, even agreeably complaisant, but never entirely amused." |
Richard Schickel |
Splat |
Saint Jack (1979) |
"If Saint Jack is not another complete embarrassment for Bogdanovich, it nonetheless reveals his deficiencies as a film maker." |
Frank Rich |
Tomato |
Saludos Amigos (1943) |
"A good-neighborly, Technicolor whimsey that has made Walt Disney one of South America's favorite North Americans." |
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Tomato |
The Savages (2007) |
"I wouldn't call the film inspirational — it is too well observed to succumb to easy sentiment — but its realism is patiently engaging and subtly insinuating" |
Richard Schickel |
Tomato 5/5 |
Saving Private Ryan (1998) |
"A war film that, entirely aware of its genre's conventions, transcends them as it transcends the simplistic moralities that inform its predecessors, to take the high, morally haunting ground." |
Richard Schickel |
Tomato |
The Scout (1994) |
"The Scout is the best comedy-fantasy about baseball ever made, which goes to show that if Hollywood keeps trying, eventually someone will get it right." |
Richard Schickel |
Tomato |
The Secret Life of Bees (2008) |
"The film is full of sweet, subtle touches." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
The Secret of NIMH (1982) |
"It is something gorgeous to look at." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
The September Issue (2009) |
"The movie offers insights that lift it beyond the realist version of The Devil Wears Prada." |
Mary F. Pols |
Splat |
Seraphim Falls (2007) |
"It is not a terrible movie -- its beginning holds a certain promise -- just, finally, an unengaging one." |
Richard Schickel |
Tomato |
Series 7: The Contenders (2001) |
"Clever." |
Richard Schickel |
Tomato |
A Serious Man (2009) |
"To absorb God's body blows, this disquieting, haunting movie says, is to be fully alive. To do otherwise could kill you." |
Richard Corliss |
Splat |
Seven (1995) |
"It is very tiresome peering through the gloom trying to catch a glimpse of something interesting, then having to avert one's eyes when it turns out to be just another brutally tormented body." |
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Tomato |
Seven Pounds (2008) |
"It's a lovely performance [by Dawson], in part because her character throws every charm she's got at the one man who seems doomed to deflect it." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
Seven Samurai (1954) |
"Again and again, Kurosawa sends a dark thrill through his audience with a touch of sensuous physical reality." |
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Tomato |
Sex and the City - The Movie (2008) |
"Learning and hugging. There's lots of that here — woman to woman and man to woman — which satisfies the movie's fantasy fulfillment of both amity and eros." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
Shadow of a Doubt (1943) |
"A superb film." |
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Splat |
The Shaggy Dog (1959) |
"Unhappily, Producer Walt Disney tells his shaggy-dog story so doggedly that he soon runs it into the pound." |
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Tomato 5/5 |
Shakespeare in Love (1998) |
"Let the kids toy with their Rugrats and hold their Sandler high. Shakespeare in Love is a movie to please the rest of us." |
Richard Corliss |
Splat |
Sherlock Holmes (2009) |
"What is surprising is how bland the results are. The explosions and action sequences have an odd cheapness to them and the central plot is one of those dreary take-over-the-world routines." |
Mary F. Pols |
Tomato |
Shooter (2007) |
"Shooter is an honorable rather than exceptional addition to the canon." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
The Shop Around the Corner (1940) |
"As the plot has as many complications as characters, much of the fun comes in watching Scripter Samson Raphaelson neatly tangle and untangle them without tying himself in a hard knot." |
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Tomato |
Shortbus (2006) |
"A sweet, very funny, volcanically romantic comedy-drama about relationships in post-9/11 New York City." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
Shrek (2001) |
"No one has ever made a funnier jackass of himself than Murphy." |
Richard Schickel |
Tomato |
Shrek 2 (2004) |
"This wonderfully animated movie is a little more softly pitched than its predecessor, but it still has plenty of rollicking spin on the ball." |
Richard Schickel |
Tomato |
Sicko (2007) |
"As both harangue and movie tragicomedy, Sicko is socko." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
Sideways (2004) |
"By far the year's best American movie." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
Silence of the Lambs (1991) |
"Main attraction: the intellectual tug-of-wills between Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins." |
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Silver City (2004) |
"An uninvolving muddle." |
Richard Schickel |
Splat |
Silverado (1985) |
"Agreeable but never compelling." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
The Simpsons Movie (2007) |
"It was worth waiting for." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
A Single Man (2009) |
"For a gentle man who's lost his love, solitude has become a life sentence that simply must end. Firth makes that ache subtly, splendidly visible." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
The Sixth Sense (1999) |
"The Sixth Sense might not scare you out of your wits, but it could reward them." |
Richard Schickel |
Splat |
Slap Shot (1977) |
"Slap Shot may have done a lot of fast skating and some solid body checking, but in the last period it makes a final costly slip -- and misses its goal." |
Richard Schickel |
Tomato |
Sleepers (1996) |
"It is all legally preposterous. But Levinson is a slick craftsman, his actors are insinuatingly real, and cinematographer Michael Ballhaus casts a disarmingly believable light on these proceedings." |
Richard Schickel |
Splat |
Sleeping Beauty (1959) |
"The hero and heroine are sugar sculpture, and the witch looks like a clumsy tracing from a Charles Addams cartoon." |
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Splat |
Sleepless in Seattle (1993) |
"Mostly, Sleepless in Seattle leaves you feeling restless in the audience." |
Richard Schickel |
Tomato 4/5 |
Sleepy Hollow (1999) |
"Burton's richest, prettiest, weirdest since Batman Returns." |
Richard Corliss |
Splat |
Sleuth (2007) |
"If you consider what the exalted quartet of Branagh, Pinter, Caine and Law might have done with the project, and what they did to it, Sleuth has to be the worst prestige movie of the year." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) |
"Despite its elements of brutality, this is a buoyant hymn to life, and a movie to celebrate." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
Smart People (2008) |
"Call it a 'could see' -- something you can drop in on when you have nothing better to do and emerge from feeling not at all cheated by the experience." |
Richard Schickel |
Splat |
Smokin' Aces (2007) |
"We just sit there numbly, awaiting the next sensation and trying, without notable success, to comprehend the preposterous backstory." |
Richard Schickel |
Tomato |
Snakes on a Plane (2006) |
"The director, David R. Ellis, is not exactly Alfred Hitchcock -- he's often messy in his stagings -- but as his picture rattles along its thrill a minute flight plan he does manage to induce a certain amnesia about its preposterous premise." |
Richard Schickel |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Snatch (2001) |
"The story motors like a car driven by a chatty maniac who somehow stays on the road." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
Snow Angels (2008) |
"The film's success is due in large part to actors who are both faithful to all the social minutiae and seductive enough to keep you watching." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
So Goes the Nation (2006) |
"It shows that the rules of politics remain pretty simple: stay on message and don't say stupid stuff. Advice that's as straightforward as good steak -- and just as easy to screw up." |
Ana Marie Cox |
Tomato |
The Soloist (2009) |
"A deeply empathetic exploration of mental illness and a winning showcase for the talents of its two stars, Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx." |
Mary F. Pols |
Tomato |
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) |
"Paul Newman brings to awesome life the jungle qualities implicit in a slum childhood..." |
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Splat |
Soul Food (1997) |
"Soul Food aims to be a banquet of feelings, but mostly it serves up tripe." |
Richard Corliss |
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