Splat C |
S.W.A.T. (2003) |
"The film is nothing special and feels like a cliche every step of the way." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B+ |
S1m0ne (2002) |
"Has much to tell us about the nature of celebrity, the dangerously competitive world of show business, the price we pay for illusion, and our insatiable appetite for the sordid details of private lives." |
Paula Nechak |
Splat C- |
Sacred Planet (2003) |
"A by-the-numbers ecology film that's full of pretty images of Mother Earth strung together with precious little imagination, originality or enthusiasm." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
The Saddest Music in the World (2004) |
"... so stuffed with Maddin-ess that it never manages to get past the glorious surfaces." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat C+ |
The Safety of Objects (2003) |
"While Troche shows style and accomplishment in tackling and balancing such a complex scale, her script leaves something to be desired." |
Paula Nechak |
Tomato B |
Sahara (2005) |
"The casting is so strong and the overall filmmaking flair of the movie is so captivating that it basically works, perhaps even well enough to join its producer Mace Neufeld's Tom Clancy adaptations as a major new movie franchise." |
William Arnold |
Splat C |
Saint Ralph (2005) |
"Michael McGowan's conventionally heartwarming underdog drama doesn't miss a cliche on the eccentric troublemaker's rocky road to sainthood." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B |
Saints And Soldiers |
"It's no earthshaker, but the indie film is refreshingly different from the current movie norm, it's won more than 15 awards on the festival circuit, and war-movie aficionados will find it well worth the journey to one of its four suburban venues." |
William Arnold |
Splat C- |
Salton Sea (2002) |
"The cumulative effect of the movie is repulsive and depressing." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B+ |
Salvador Allende (2004) |
"What the world knows of Chile in the 1970s, it knows through the films of Patricio Guzman." |
Bill White |
- |
The Same River Twice (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
|
Tomato B+ |
The Santa Clause 2 (2002) |
"Allen is genuinely affable as Santa with wit." |
Ellen Kim |
Tomato 8/10 |
Santitos (1997) |
Click here to see the review. |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat C+ |
Saraband (2005) |
"The 85-year-old Bergman has proclaimed this his final film and it has the feel of closure. It also feels like the effort of a tired artist reworking the same themes." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B |
Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic (2005) |
"The big screen isn't the best venue for her "ain't I cute?" shtick and shock tactics... but Silverman is funny and, more often than not, so is the film." |
Sean Axmaker |
- |
Sasayaki (Moonlight Whispers) (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
|
Tomato B+ |
Satin Rouge (2002) |
"Amari has dressed up this little parable in a fairly irresistible package full of privileged moments and memorable performances." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
Savage Grace (2008) |
"An eerie, unsettling, uniquely creepy experience." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B+ |
The Savages (2007) |
"An acerbic, wonderfully acted comedy-drama about family ties and mortality." |
Paula Nechak |
Splat C |
Save Me (2007) |
"As a movie, it doesn't amount to much more than an after school-special with sex and profanity." |
Bill White |
Tomato B- |
Save The Green Planet! (2005) |
"Made up of equal parts whimsy and dementia, Jang Jun-hwan relentlessly pushes his story of madness, revenge and petty power plays to the limit." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B |
Saved! (2004) |
"It's like Mean Girls with a holier-than-thou twist and a genuine (if contrived) message of acceptance." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B- |
Saving Face (2005) |
"The screenplay isn't always smooth or subtle, but Wu quietly reveals small, telling details..." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat C+ |
Saving Grace (2000) |
"It never quite rises above its one-joke situation, never builds the kind of offbeat rural charm it pursues." |
William Arnold |
Splat 5/10 |
Saving Silverman (2001) |
"A shapeless mess and about as convincing as a cartoon." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B+ |
Saw (2004) |
"... the most extreme entry yet in the bleak and dusky splinter of American thrillers about criminal geniuses with messianic egos and sadistic torments..." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat C- |
Saw II (2005) |
"... this time around the ordeal is less grueling than simply distasteful." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B |
Say I Do (2006) |
"... despite these narrative shortcomings, what the actors accomplish is truly impressive; they embody their roles so convincingly that what's onscreen always feels authentic." |
Manny Lewis |
Splat D |
Say It Isn't So (2001) |
"A one-joke, one-note turkey that works over Sam Shepard's Fool for Love as a mistaken identity farce hammered into the Mary blueprint, but without any of its invention, energy or heart." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato 4/10 |
Scary Movie (2000) |
"If the baddest of the Farrelly brothers' bad-taste gags has you in stitches, then this is the movie for you." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat D- |
Scary Movie 2 (2001) |
"Is pretty thin and uninspired outside of one or two modestly clever gags." |
Paula Nechak |
Tomato B |
Scary Movie 3 (2003) |
"Where the Wayanses flogged every last chuckle from their belabored ideas, Zucker spring-loads his gags and lets them fly in rapid-fire succession." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B- |
Scary Movie 4 (2006) |
"... a barrage of low-minded gags with high-spirited energy." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat C |
School for Scoundrels (2006) |
"Todd Phillips' fitfully funny script never delivers the crude creativity or the raw energy that feeds this genre of proudly crass male-centric comedies." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B |
School of Rock (2003) |
".. a familiar song -- the journey of arrested adolescent/adult Dewey Finn (Jack Black) to maturity, helped along the way by the wisdom of children -- but the fun is in the performance." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B+ |
Schultze Gets the Blues (2005) |
"There's a pleasant delight in the comically dour faces of these old Eastern bloc men, an appreciation of sleepy small-town life in a quaint village." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B+ |
The Science of Sleep (2006) |
"... between the chaotic zigs and creative jags, it proclaims its own kind of messy authenticity and a bittersweet beauty." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat D |
Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004) |
"I'd be tempted to call the whole thing cartoonish, but that would be insulting to the real thing." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat C- |
Scooby-Doo - The Movie (2002) |
"The film's technological selling point -- having a computer-animated Scooby in a mostly live-action world -- is strangely unimpressive." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
Scoop (2006) |
"Scoop, which -- unlike the serious-minded Match Point -- is an old-style Woody farce, with Allen himself heading the cast." |
William Arnold |
- |
Scorched (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
|
Tomato B+ |
The Score (2001) |
"The script is only so-so but it has a terrific retro style, it's well-directed and it makes an engrossing showcase for its trio of stars." |
William Arnold |
Tomato C+ |
The Scorpion King (2002) |
"It's hard to say whether the Rock saves the movie or merely defines it." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B |
Scotland, PA (2002) |
"Macbeth. McDonald's. How far apart these poles of popular culture seemed until Billy Morrissette's sly McShakespeare crime comedy." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B |
Scratch (2002) |
"...Pray doesn't have a passion for the material. He nonetheless appreciates the art and reveals a music scene that transcends culture and race." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B |
Scream 3 (2000) |
"Craven hasn't lost his horror film touch." |
Jim Peterson |
- |
Screwed (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
|
Tomato B |
The Sea (2003) |
"There's little healing to be found in the bitter melodrama, but there is a small sense of triumph..." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B+ |
The Sea Inside (2004) |
"Bardem is not only immensely powerful in the role, he goes against our expectations at almost every turn, and subtly, skillfully generates much more than the usual sympathy and interest we automatically give a massively afflicted character." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
The Sea is Watching (2003) |
"An absorbing slice of a lost world that's actually very reminiscent of Kurosawa's underappreciated 1957 film, The Lower Depths." |
William Arnold |
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