Tomato 4/5 |
S.P.I.T.: Squeegee Punks in Traffic (2003) |
"Entertaining and enlightening as it is urgent." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/5 |
S.W.A.T. (2003) |
"S.W.A.T. has blockbuster ambitions, but it develops characters and plot at a leisurely pace better suited to the small screen than the big one." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/5 |
S1m0ne (2002) |
"Pushes its thesis way past the breaking point of even the most gullible or charitable of viewers." |
Peter Howell |
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Sa-Kwa (2005) |
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Tomato 5/5 |
The Saddest Music in the World (2004) |
"[Maddin's] best and most imaginative picture to date." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Safety of Objects (2003) |
"A richly compelling movie that is as hard to forget as it is difficult to warm up to." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/4 |
Sahara (2005) |
"Unlike Raiders of the Lost Ark, which this movie wants so desperately to be, there's nothing here to engage the brain along with the eyeballs." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 2.4/5 |
Saint Ralph (2005) |
"Thanks to the charm brought to the role of Ralph by young Adam Butcher, and strong performances from Campbell Scott, Gordon Pinsent, Jennifer Tilly and Shauna MacDonald, credibility is achieved." |
Susan Walker |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Samsara (2003) |
"A beautifully rendered gem." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/5 |
The Santa Clause 2 (2002) |
"There's something fishy about a seasonal holiday kids' movie ... that derives its moment of most convincing emotional gravity from a scene where Santa gives gifts to grownups." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006) |
"It’s time to send this one-trick reindeer to the glue factory." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 4/4 |
Saraband (2005) |
"The compositions are stark, the tone wintry and the conversations bleak. Yet there's a flicker of something affirmative in this darkness." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/5 |
Satin Rouge (2002) |
"There are many scenes of belly dancing, pure pleasure to watch." |
Sid Adilman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Savage Grace (2008) |
"While the pace occasionally flags and there are times when we wonder where Kalin is leading us, he maintains a pervasive sense of dread and unease throughout that makes the chilling climax seem both shocking and inevitable." |
Bruce Demara |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Savages (2007) |
"The dynamic that operates throughout this film is fantasy versus reality, not just in the lives of the characters but in American life in general." |
Susan Walker |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Save The Green Planet! (2005) |
"Demented yet somehow humane, Save The Green Planet is a visually ingenious hybrid melding horror, black comedy, revenge thriller and science fiction into an unpredictable, cohesive whole." |
Murray Whyte |
Splat 2/5 |
Saved by the Belles (2003) |
"All style and very little substance." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 3/5 |
Saved! (2004) |
"Something puts the fear of God into Saved! about halfway in." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/4 |
Saving Face (2005) |
"Goes beyond the obvious into something a lot more current and meaningful: the need to make your own love, even if society looks askance." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Saving Luna (2008) |
"The real-life story of Luna -- the orphaned male orca that found itself abandoned in 2001 in B.C.'s Nootka Sound and opted for human company over finding its pod -- begs big-budget Hollywood treatment." |
Greg Quill |
Splat |
Saving Silverman (2001) |
"We just get a lot more of the gross-out humour that is still distressingly in vogue for teen-oriented movies." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/5 |
Saw (2004) |
"A strenuously morbid assembly of deranged-genius- serial-killer movie conventions cribbed from just about every popular post-Hannibal Lecter movie imaginable." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Saw II (2005) |
"Quite possibly Saw II sheds enough blood to satisfy horror aficionados." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Saw IV (2007) |
"An incomprehensible cacophony of screams, shock cuts, dour pseudo-philosophizing, heavy metal mutilation and low-rent TV-standard performances." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Saw V (2008) |
"Woefully ponderous, convoluted and improbable." |
Ben Rayner |
Splat |
Scary Movie 2 (2001) |
"Predictable but only occasionally amusing." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/5 |
Scary Movie 3 (2003) |
"It's all been there, razzed that, with long flat valleys stretching beneath the comic peaks." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Scary Movie 4 (2006) |
"Scary Movie 4 is the second to be directed by Airplane! and The Naked Gun's David Zucker and possibly the funniest one yet." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Scenes of A Sexual Nature (2007) |
"Each vignette is wittily worded by neophyte TV writer Aschlin Ditta, and subtly performed by a large ensemble cast that contains a few fairly recognizable surprises." |
Rob Salem |
Splat 1.5/4 |
School for Scoundrels (2006) |
"School for Scoundrels is an exercise in advanced comedic embalming." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 4/5 |
School of Rock (2003) |
"Not only a glove-fit of a movie for the volcanic Black, School Of Rock proves a surprisingly deft foray into pure, unadulterated fun for the gifted indie smart guy Linklater." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 3/4 |
Schultze Gets the Blues (2005) |
"Winner of the special prize for directing at the 2003 Venice International Film Festival, Schorr has made an impressive debut." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 2/4 |
The Science of Sleep (2006) |
"While this is obviously inspired stuff, and while Gondry's cardboard-and-scissors, pop-primitivist sensibilities result in some fetching hand-carved wonders, the movie itself is as oblivious and hermetic as its love struck, fantasy-prone hero." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/5 |
Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004) |
"Monstrously silly." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/5 |
Scooby-Doo - The Movie (2002) |
"Lillard gives the flick its manic energy, and the rest of the gang holds its own." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/4 |
Scoop (2006) |
"If only it were funny instead of just passably amusing, and if only Allen's movies hadn't declined to such a state of rote self-repetition that even passably amusing is tantamount to a compliment." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato |
The Score (2001) |
"A movie which gets the job done as simply, efficiently and intelligently as possible." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 1/5 |
The Scorpion King (2002) |
"Contains not a single good line or memorable action sequence." |
Peter Howell |
Splat |
Scream 3 (2000) |
"A lame retread." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Sea Inside (2004) |
"It comes as no surprise to learn that Javier Bardem, the virile and charismatic Spanish actor, is capable of turning on the charisma even working only from the neck up. What is alarming is realizing that the rest of the movie he's in is paralyzed as well." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/5 |
Seabiscuit (2003) |
"Like a Ken Burns documentary relieved of the burden of accuracy, this is history as a warm bath you slip into for a while before stepping back into the chill of the present." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/5 |
Secondhand Lions (2003) |
"Secondhand Lions manages to squander the services of seasoned vets Michael Caine and Robert Duvall, and promising newcomer Haley Joel Osment, with a tale that is dramatically false and disturbingly vicious." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Secret Life of Bees (2008) |
"Quite a bit of honey is applied to make the awful truths palatable, but The Secret Life of Bees curtails the sappiness with performances -- especially Fanning's -- that are grounded in reality." |
Susan Walker |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Secret Life of Words (2006) |
"Polley not only speaks volumes with her wary, hooded eyes and closed body language, she provides the silent emotion anchor the movie badly needs." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Secret Lives of Dentists (2003) |
"Rudolph's fondness for angular, oblique characterization is ideally suited to the movie's incidental story of sublimated feelings and contradictory impulses." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/4 |
The Secret of the Grain (2008) |
"After two and a half hours, The Secret of the Grain, ends, as arbitrarily as it began." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 2/5 |
Secret Window (2004) |
"The rising dread is hobbled by a huge impediment: The story doesn't make a lick of sense." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/5 |
Secretary (2002) |
"Disturbing yet engrossing." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/5 |
Seducing Dr. Lewis (2004) |
"A slow-simmering treat." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Seeker (2007) |
"Director David L. Cunningham's proffered chills are strictly of the lightweight variety: a menacing flock of ravens, a slimy skein of snakes and a couple of mall security yobs too fat or stupid to overpower even a spindly teenager." |
Bruce Demara |
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