Tomato 2.5/5 |
S.W.A.T. (2003) |
"It's big, but not insanely overblown." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3/5 |
S1m0ne (2002) |
"The result is gorgeous, if ultimately shallow -- much like Simone herself." |
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Tomato 4/5 |
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2004) |
"Less a history of the murderous regime than an examination of a space -- physical and mental -- where evil was nurtured and put into the service of the state." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 2/4 |
Saawariya (2007) |
"The songs are undistinguished, and while newcomers Sonam Kapoor and Ranbir Kapoor (who aren't related) both have impeccable Bollywood pedigrees, her performance is wildly uneven -- and his strenuously madcap antics are grating rather than endearing." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Sabrina (1954) |
"... the results were satisfying, as Bogart played drawing-room comedy with aplomb." |
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Splat 2.5/4 |
Sabrina (1995) |
"Not, as some reviewers claimed, a mediocre reworking of a Hollywood classic, but a truly lousy reworking of a Billy Wilder misfire." |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
Sacco & Vanzetti (2007) |
"Watching the film, it's hard not to feel a cold chill of recognition, particularly when Miller's interviewees discuss immigration, patriotism and war, and civil liberties versus homeland security in a time of national crisis." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Sacred Planet (2003) |
"Feels simplistic and a little condescending." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Sacrifice (1986) |
"It is a poetic vision, filled with the symbolism peculiar to Tarkovsky's imagination. It is also a visually stunning, hauntingly beautiful, brilliant piece of art." |
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Tomato 3.5/5 |
The Saddest Music in the World (2004) |
"Another slice of bizarre, movie-mad brilliance from Winnipeg's Guy Maddin." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 3/5 |
Sade (2002) |
"Rarely has the horror of the Terror been so graphically and effectively evoked." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 4/5 |
Safe (1995) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 3.5/5 |
Safe Conduct (2002) |
"Dense with characters and contains some thrilling moments." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 5/5 |
Safety Last (1923) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 2.5/5 |
The Safety of Objects (2003) |
"Troche has bitten off quite a bit here, and it's too much for her to chew properly." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 1.5/5 |
Sahara (2005) |
"You have to question the wisdom of optioning a Cussler book and hiring a pack of writers to transform it into generic drivel -- surely it would have been cheaper to commission original claptrap." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Saint (1997) |
"Kilmer slips in and out of a series of ludicrously elaborate disguises, some more convincing than others, while poor Shue shuffles through the role of a sexy, book-reading babe pretending to be a dowdy lady scientist in kneesocks." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Saint Jack (1979) |
"The story is told in too meandering a style and the many well-acted characterizations never mesh together." |
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Splat 2.5/4 |
Saint Joan (1957) |
"The fervor of the child-soldier is lost on the screen; she appears to be sweet and naive, not the calculating personality Shaw intended and wrote of in the play's prolog." |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Saint of 9/11 (2006) |
"This impressively mounted, feature-length eulogy for the courageous Franciscan friar who devoted his life to bringing peace, solace and reconciliation to all in need makes a compelling argument for canonization." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 3/5 |
Saint Ralph (2005) |
"McGowan's film demonstrates how sometimes the strongest acts of faith can only occur entirely outside the church." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 3/5 |
Saints and Sinners (2004) |
"Would be as tedious as a home movie if the couple, Edward DeBonis and Vincent Maniscalco, weren't gay men and their nuptials not colored by the clash between their personal faith and their rejection by the mainstream church." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 2/5 |
Saints And Soldiers |
"That the film seems willing to erect a simple religious parable on such a moral morass is bewildering." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 4/5 |
Salaam Bombay! (1988) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 2.5/4 |
Salo, Or The 120 Days of Sodom (1975) |
"The result, despite moments of undeniably brilliant insight, is nearly unwatchable, extremely disturbing, and often literally nauseous." |
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Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Salon (2005) |
"The film's feisty cast and generally sunny outlook make for warm and reassuring comfort viewing, the equivalent of a straight-from-the-box dish of mac and cheese." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 2.5/5 |
Salton Sea (2002) |
"This flashy noir pastiche, which is so buzzed on its own hopped-up style that no one seems to have realized it's not half as clever or deep as it thinks, is still far more entertaining than its lugubrious opening would suggest." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 4/5 |
Salvador (1986) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Salvatore Giuliano (1961) |
"The political, historical, and social references are not always clear, which can be distracting, yet this still works and works well." |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
Same Old Song (1997) |
"Densely plotted and endearingly neurotic." |
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Tomato 3/5 |
The Same River Twice (2003) |
"Poignant documentary." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 1/4 |
The Sandpiper (1965) |
"It must rank as one of the most expensive and pretentious loads of garbage ever foisted upon an adoring public." |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Sangre de Mi Sangre (2008) |
"An intriguing, if flawed mystery set in the shadowy subterranean world of undocumented Mexican immigrants." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 5/5 |
Sanshô the Bailiff (1954) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Santa Clause (1994) |
"While the film breaks no new ground, it offers the kind of simple, well-crafted, family entertainment that used to be a staple of the Disney studio." |
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Tomato 2.5/5 |
The Santa Clause 2 (2002) |
"A reasonably entertaining sequel to 1994's surprise family hit that may strain adult credibility." |
Steve Simels |
Tomato 3/4 |
Santa Sangre (1990) |
"A film that no adventurous moviegoer can afford to miss." |
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Tomato 3/5 |
Santa Smokes (2004) |
"[Terror and Valentien] manage to capture the essence of the Big Apple in the only way possible: off the cuff and entirely on the fly." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Saraband (2005) |
"A rare, unexpected treat." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour (2007) |
"The filmmaking is borderline incompetent -- the acting varies from okay to awful, the cinematography is unpleasantly soft and the tone is badly misjudged." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic (2005) |
"Her material asks us to ask ourselves a few basic questions about comedy." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Sasquatch Gang (2007) |
"[Writer/director Tim] Skousen's low-budget lark is a thing of small virtues." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 2/4 |
Satan's Brew (1976) |
"[It] may be the least interesting film made by the great Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a shrill and tiresome attempt at a screwball black comedy." |
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Tomato 3/5 |
Satin Rouge (2002) |
"Lilia's transformation from strict mother to sensual siren is superficially preposterous, but Abbas infuses the role with an unimpeachable core of emotional truth." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 2/4 |
Savage Grace (2008) |
"Director Todd Kalin seemed the perfect person to bring the Baekeland saga to the screen, and Julianne Moore the perfect person to play the demented and doomed Barbara. So what went wrong?" |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Savage Innocents (1959) |
"This stunning pictorial account of the way Eskimos live, hunt, love, and die was filmed in the northernmost part of Canada, and the scenes of Eskimos fighting for survival are truly magnificent and deeply moving." |
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Tomato 3/4 |
The Savages (2007) |
"The Savages is funny in the if-you-didn't-laugh-you'd-cry way and superbly acted by all involved" |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3/4 |
Save Me (2007) |
"A solid performance by the often underrated Judith Light lends considerable weight to this melodrama's controversial subject." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Save The Green Planet! (2005) |
"Part serial-killer policier, part Body Snatchers science fiction, this ferociously entertaining hybrid marks the most welcome arrival of South Korean filmmaker Jang Joon-Hwan into a tired, been-there/done-that genre scene." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 7/10 |
Save the Last Dance (2001) |
"It doesn't have an original idea in its head." |
Maitland McDonagh |
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