S1m0ne (2002)

"It's little more than A Star Is Born floating through cyberspace, Celebrity streamed over a computer monitor."

Sacred Stage - The Mariinsky Theater (2005)

"Fans of Russian ballet may be enthralled, but might as well wait until the movie inevitably ends up on PBS."

Salton Sea (2002)

"As a gallery of the grotesque ... the cinematic equivalent of a Joe Coleman painting or Adam Parfrey publication, The Salton Sea is a blast."

Saturday Night & Sunday Morning (1960)

"Not much fun, but an archetype of its genre."

The Savages (2007)

"The name of the movie is one of those insufferable cutesy puns...but don't let that deter you from a film that achieves the rare balance of being both hilarious and tragic."

Save the Last Dance (2001)

"Gives off enough energy and light that the audience wants to believe in it even if society's impacted prejudices continue to say otherwise."

Saving Silverman (2001)

"Mean-spirited and juvenile."

Saw II (2005)

"improves on all of the first film's problem areas, while leaving intact everything that was good about the concept."

Say It Isn't So (2001)

"Say It Isn't So is certainly one that can wait until video."

Scarlet Diva (2000)

"Everyone I know who owns a camcorder has made a self-confessional, semi-autobiographical piece of videotaped wankery, but Asia Argento does it better than all of them."

Scary Movie 2 (2001)

"Most of it is incredibly, gleefully crude and tasteless, but it is also good-natured and harmless, and there's a pretty good chance you'll find yourself laughing."

Schindler's List (1993)

"A theme park ride masquerading as master's thesis."

Scooby-Doo - The Movie (2002)

"A punch line without a premise, a joke built entirely from musty memories of half-dimensional characters."

The Scorpion King (2002)

"[Russell] makes good B movies (The Mask, The Blob), and The Scorpion King more than ably meets those standards."

Scratch (2002)

"Immersing us in the endlessly inventive, fiercely competitive world of hip-hop DJs, the project is sensational and revelatory, even if scratching makes you itch."

Scrooged (1988)

"I saw this during a brief visit to Germany and it really helped things suck less. Possibly even funnier dubbed in incomprehensible German."

Second Time Around (2002)

"Vera's technical prowess ends up selling his film short; he smoothes over hard truths even as he uncovers them."

The Secret Lives of Dentists (2003)

"Seems vaguely interested in American domestic ennui, but ends up feeling -- wait for it (yawn) -- like pulling teeth."

Secrets of a Soul (1926)

"Hey, Pabst! Blue ribbon!"

See No Evil (2006)

"You would think that a pornography director would be a decent fit for a slasher movie...Yet Gregory Dark seems unable to make the transition."

See Spot Run (2001)

"What's amazing about See Spot Run is that, granting how wretched it looks from the trailers and TV ads, it's actually so very much worse even than that."

Serendipity (2001)

"Rarely does a movie feel so shrink-wrapped; you expect it to be marked down come spring."

The Serpent and the Rainbow (1987)

"Possibly Craven's best -- an original voodoo thriller that's also primo Pullman"

Session 9 (2001)

"Not only the scariest movie of the year, but also perhaps the most easy to believe since the first Blair Witch."

Sex & Zen II (1996)

"This one has a far more coherent plot than its predecessor, even more protracted soft-core scenes, and will be primarily remembered as the feature debut of the beautiful and talented Taiwanese actress Shu Kei."