Splat 1/4 |
S.W.A.T. (2003) |
"Bolted for action but flabby all over, it is derived in a stupid, distilled sense from the 1975 ABC-TV show that enshrined a paramilitary elite unit of police, full of Vietnam vets and gonzo for firepower." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
S1m0ne (2002) |
"There is honestly funny head-scratching here about the real and fake, on screen and in life, and about the elements of stardom, and about the need for personality to give beauty a soul." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
The Saddest Music in the World (2004) |
"At moments the taste is flat, but this brew has a head on it. It's the strangest Canadian export since Glenn Gould." |
David Elliott |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Sahara (2005) |
"A silly and morally vacant movie." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Saints And Soldiers |
"The makers have served their mission well, and not as missionaries." |
David Elliott |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Salton Sea (2002) |
"[A] slummer." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
The Same River Twice (2003) |
"It is poignant to see the young bodies aged." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 1/4 |
The Santa Clause 2 (2002) |
"Even a 4-year-old can spot very early on who will be wearing the title of Mrs. Claus, but the ride to matrimony is well worth the trip." |
Jerry McCormick |
Splat |
Santa vs. the Snowman (2002) |
"Fluffy, schizophrenic (there's liberal borrowing from both Care Bears and The Empire Strikes Back) and oddly annoying." |
Arthur Salm |
Splat 2/4 |
The Savages (2007) |
"The movie greedily uses its rich cast." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Save the Last Dance (2001) |
"A strikingly unsubtle film." |
Arthur Salm |
Splat 2/4 |
Saved! (2004) |
"Another regulation teen comedy." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Saving Shiloh (2006) |
"Wilson ... makes this film, via grit of detail, a bit more than a Hallmark Special Retro Disney Walton sermon in values." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Saving Silverman (2001) |
"About the best I can say for Saving Silverman is that it passes quickly." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
Scary Movie (2000) |
"The cast is terrific." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Scary Movie 2 (2001) |
"[The Wayans] are starting to suffer the malaise of overload that finally junked the films of Mel Brooks and the Zucker/Abrahams lampoons." |
David Elliott |
Splat 1/4 |
School for Scoundrels (2006) |
"To call it slight is to slight the word 'slight.' Even to call it a movie is to place 'movie' in the order of entertainment somewhere near paint scraping." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
School of Rock (2003) |
"Black's performance carries the movie." |
Andrew Fu |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Science of Sleep (2006) |
"As was famously said, we'll always have Paris. Very few, even the makers of Amelie, have Paris quite like Gondry." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
Scoop (2006) |
"Reminiscent of the short humorous fiction Allen has written for the New Yorker in recent years. They're tortured parodies of his pieces from a few decades back." |
Arthur Salm |
Tomato |
The Score (2001) |
"Snug, but not too smug." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
The Scorpion King (2002) |
"The story is ancient history as interpreted not by Thucydides or Arnold Toynbee but the World Wrestling Federation." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Scotland, PA (2002) |
"Underachieves only in not taking the Shakespeare parallels quite far enough." |
James Hebert |
Tomato |
Scream 3 (2000) |
"A clever, entertaining movie." |
Karla Peterson |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Sea Inside (2004) |
"It has a striking deficit. It tends to generalize from too winning a single case." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Seabiscuit (2003) |
"It never rivals the lyrical beauty and amazing horseflesh of The Black Stallion, and the races are not staged with such exalted power, but Ross heats your blood, because you root for the uppity equine and his human team." |
David Elliott |
Splat 1.5/4 |
A Second Chance (2001) |
"Lacks credible acting and dialogue." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Second Time Around (2002) |
"Movies like this are selling the old European candor, the old wink of 'bold' revelation. But in 2002, such revelations wilt." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Secondhand Lions (2003) |
"Has a few almost first-rate pleasures." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Secret Life of Bees (2008) |
"There are lots of honey-as-romantic metaphor scenes, creating the feeling of an after-school special. But the theme that ultimately shines through is Lily's desire to find unconditional love." |
Nina Garin |
Splat |
Secret Things (2003) |
"Jean-Claude Brisseau's film, which takes a whip to Dangerous Liaisons and even winks at Rules of the Game, gets very silly with lesbian voyeurism and liturgical music." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
Secret Window (2004) |
"How, really, do you go wrong with actors like Turturro, Depp, Bello, Hutton and (as a private eye) Charles S. Dutton? By using them as spits for King's brand of corn, roasted and then shoved down the gullets of the gullible." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Secretary (2002) |
"If you don't flee, you might be seduced. If you don't laugh, flee." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
Seņorita Extraviada (2001) |
"[A] film of appalling facts." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Separate Lies (2005) |
"Fellowes, main scripter of Gosford Park, adapted Nigel Balchin's novel, then directed and cast the film superbly." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
September 11 (2003) |
"The best witness of 9/11 is 9/11, and Inarritu, as if honorably terrorized by the facts, turns to an Arabic quotation: 'Does God's light guide us or blind us?'" |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Serendipity (2001) |
"If the sight of people acting like they've got beanbags for brains makes you crazy, you will not enjoy Serendipity until you put your own thinking cap on ice." |
Karla Peterson |
Splat 0/4 |
Serving Sara (2002) |
"Serving Sara should be served an eviction notice at every theater stuck with it." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
Sex and Lucia (2002) |
"If you removed the show-time sex, would more than a handful of festival-fixated Americans bother to watch this? Unlikely." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
Sexy Beast (2001) |
"A buzzy cocktail made of fear, nerve and insolence." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Shadow Magic (2001) |
"There is, alas, quite a lot of pidgin drama and comedy." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Shadow of the Vampire (2000) |
"This vampire doesn't suck your neck, but pulls your leg." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
Shaft (2000) |
"Shaft, has a furnace of action and a master stoker: Jackson as John Shaft, the leather-cased 'black private dick who's a sex machine to all the chicks.'" |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Shall We Dance? (2004) |
"A cozy star vehicle for Jennifer Lopez and Richard Gere." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Shallow Hal (2001) |
"The movie is truly, if not deeply, two-dimensional." |
David Elliott |
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Shanghai Ghetto (2002) |
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David Elliott |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Shanghai Knights (2003) |
"This one seemed longer than before, which might not be the best compliment to the movie, but it gets laughs." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
Shanghai Noon (2000) |
"It is impossible to believe that Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson won't soon be back in a sequel." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Shark Tale (2004) |
"Shark Tale is always up and often likable." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Shattered Glass (2003) |
"Ray directs for palpable tension ... but has a rudimentary, a-b-c plot." |
David Elliott |
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