Splat |
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006) |
"Allen looks silly, tired and bored this time in the fat suit and beard, while the movie presents the irritating Martin Short as Jack Frost, nipping at your nerves as Santa's nemesis in a bid to take over and (gasp!) commercialize Christmas." |
David Germain |
Tomato |
The Savages (2007) |
"Despite its dark humor, The Savages tackles the tough topics of aging, frailty, humiliation and death. All depressing stuff, to be sure, but Jenkins handles it with a delicate, relatable touch, and without being maudlin." |
Christy Lemire |
Splat |
Save the Last Dance (2001) |
"Squanders nice performances by Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas by confining them and the supporting cast to cookie-cutter roles and hackneyed inner-city subplots." |
David Germain |
Splat |
Saving Grace (2000) |
"Built on a one-note, one-joke idea." |
Matt Wolf |
Splat C- |
Scary Movie 4 (2006) |
"The gags are hit-and-miss, and regardless of their success, they categorically go on too long." |
Christy Lemire |
Splat |
School for Scoundrels (2006) |
"Ultimately, School for Scoundrels earns a failing grade." |
Christy Lemire |
Splat |
The Science of Sleep (2006) |
"Michel Gondry makes more interesting films when he's chasing through screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's playful thoughts than his own." |
David Germain |
Splat |
Scoop (2006) |
"Scoop has a half-finished air about it, a cute opening act that bogs down in the middle and winds up nowhere." |
David Germain |
Tomato |
The Score (2001) |
"Got class and smarts that put recent bombastic heist flicks such as Swordfish and 3000 Miles to Graceland to shame." |
David Germain |
Splat D |
See No Evil (2006) |
"With its run-down, abandoned setting, which is lousy with roaches, rats and flies, it's just dark, dirty and gross." |
Christy Lemire |
Tomato |
See Spot Run (2001) |
"Kids probably will enjoy the movie because bad things happen to silly grownups over and over again." |
Malcolm Ritter |
Tomato |
The September Issue (2009) |
"What we do come away with is an appreciation for clothing and photography as art forms and the kind of work and emotion that go into each issue, especially the September issue, the largest each year for its fall fashion features." |
Christy Lemire |
Splat |
Seraphim Falls (2007) |
"... technically solid but dramatically unremarkable ..." |
Christy Lemire |
Tomato |
A Serious Man (2009) |
"Watching and wondering how and when he'll snap provides dark humor, yes -- we're glad we're not this poor guy -- but also a mounting sense of unease, and it should provoke lengthy and serious debate about the nature of faith." |
Christy Lemire |
Splat |
Serving Sara (2002) |
"Crass and joyless." |
Christy Lemire |
Tomato |
Session 9 (2001) |
"Yet another lesson to Hollywood that a fright film need not be awash in blood and elaborate special effects." |
David Germain |
Splat |
Seven Pounds (2008) |
"Seven Pounds is a clever one, all right, but it might actually be too clever for its own good." |
Christy Lemire |
- |
Sex and the City - The Movie (2008) |
"Michael Patrick King Talks Sex and the City" |
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Splat |
Sex and the City - The Movie (2008) |
"It's all really soapy, though, with only some smidgens of substance." |
Christy Lemire |
Tomato |
Shadow Magic (2001) |
"A sweet, sumptuous sonnet to film and its universal lure." |
David Germain |
Tomato |
Shadow of the Vampire (2000) |
"A bright and original homage to pre-talkie days." |
David Germain |
Tomato |
Shaft (2000) |
"A slight but entertaining update." |
David Germain |
Splat 2/4 |
The Shaggy Dog (2006) |
"The Shaggy Dog is a well-dispositioned but forgettable mutt without any new tricks." |
David Germain |
Splat 2/4 |
She's The Man (2006) |
"As in Bynes' 2003 film What a Girl Wants, She's the Man wraps her up in a tidy romantic-comedy package with a generically non-threatening piece of Teen Beat eye candy." |
Christy Lemire |
Tomato |
Sherlock Holmes (2009) |
"Ritchie piles on the excess. It serves him well in fashioning a dazzling, detailed version of 1880s London, with the pardon-our-dust construction of the landmark Tower Bridge a pivotal element." |
David Germain |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Sherrybaby (2006) |
"... Sherrybaby is not so much a film as a performance, and it's a great one from Gyllenhaal." |
David Germain |
Tomato |
Shine a Light (2008) |
"There is no such thing as a blank slate with such cultural icons -- too much informs our viewing experience -- and that's both one of the film's biggest strengths and weaknesses." |
Christy Lemire |
Splat |
Shoot 'Em Up (2007) |
"After about an hour, though, it all becomes a mind-numbing barrage." |
Christy Lemire |
Splat |
Shooter (2007) |
"Then come the plot holes, the cartoonish performances (especially from Ned Beatty as a crudely drawn, corrupt Montana senator) and -- oh, yes -- the stuff that gets blowed up real good." |
Christy Lemire |
Tomato |
Shortbus (2006) |
"Following Mitchell's delightful 2001 rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the director's Shortbus is another marvelous mix of very adult, very overt themes and images coupled with a sense of childlike innocence and awe." |
David Germain |
Splat |
Shorts (2009) |
"Somewhere around the time a giant booger runs riot through the town, one wishes for a bit more adult supervision." |
Jake Coyle |
Tomato |
Shrink (2009) |
"The characters in Thomas Moffett's script are intriguing enough, and director Jonas Pate gets sufficiently lively work from his eclectic cast, that you end up caring about them anyway." |
Christy Lemire |
Tomato |
Shut Up & Sing (2006) |
"Shut Up & Sing teeters on the edge of deifying Maines, Maguire and her sister, banjo and guitar player Emily Robison, for their perseverance. But the film also focuses on the shrewd strategies they adopt in trying to keep their career afloat." |
Christy Lemire |
Tomato |
Sicko (2007) |
"It is quintessential Moore: expertly crafted, eminently entertaining, one-sided and overly simplistic." |
Christy Lemire |
Splat |
Silent Hill (2006) |
"Let’s start with the running time for Silent Hill: two hours and five minutes. Totally out of control." |
Christy Lemire |
Tomato |
Simon Magus (2001) |
"Beautifully shot and lyrically told, Simon Magus is a beguiling study in contrasts, good and evil, darkness and light, hope and despair, joy and melancholy." |
David Germain |
Splat |
The Simpsons Movie (2007) |
"While The Simpsons Movie is -- like the TV show has become -- too much a caricature of itself, it still possesses good cheer, an aversion to self-seriousness and manic energy for stuffing the screen with layers of humor." |
Jake Coyle |
Tomato |
Sin Nombre (2009) |
"Sin Nombre is at once subtle and intense, familiar but refreshing, intimate even as it tells a story untold numbers have endured." |
Christy Lemire |
- |
Singh is Kinng (2008) |
"Snoop Dogg Represents the Punjabi" |
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Splat |
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008) |
"You just wish it were a more comfortable fit." |
Christy Lemire |
Splat |
The Skulls (2000) |
"The writing is so bad that it's impossible not to laugh out loud at scenes intended to be scary or serious." |
Christy Lemire |
Splat |
Smart People (2008) |
"Novelist-turned-screenwriter Mark Poirier gives the capable, eclectic cast some real zingers to play with, but he also loads his script with some plot contrivances that are simply too hard to accept." |
Christy Lemire |
Splat |
Smokin' Aces (2007) |
"Carnahan veers wildly between dark comedy and over-the-top violence but never quite finds the right tone." |
Christy Lemire |
Splat |
Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) |
"A disappointment." |
Bob Thomas |
Splat |
The Soloist (2009) |
"The Soloist takes all those innately engaging details and turns them into what is essentially a made-for-Lifetime movie, albeit one populated by Oscar winners and nominees." |
Christy Lemire |
Tomato |
Son of Rambow (2008) |
"Son of Rambow maintains just the right tone throughout with its guileless, makeshift charm." |
Christy Lemire |
Splat |
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005) |
"Rothemund and screenwriter Fred Breinersdorfer have locked themselves into an episodic structure that offers virtually no nuance." |
Christy Lemire |
Splat |
Soul Men (2008) |
"The movie crams in myriad needless subplots -- ostensibly to provide padding, which only draws attention to how thin the original story really is." |
Christy Lemire |
Tomato |
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999) |
"Both smart and wildly funny!" |
Ted Anthony |
Splat |
Southland Tales (2007) |
"With boundless ambition far exceeding his ability to tell a coherent story, Kelly manages only an artistic apocalypse." |
David Germain |
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