Tomato |
S1m0ne (2002) |
"A bit like downloading a few bytes of self-awareness, in a summer of runaway adrenaline laced blockbusters." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
Sahara (2005) |
"A pretty offensive comedy about Africans who range from primitive to demonic that, sorry, is just not funny." |
Prairie Miller |
- |
The Savages (2007) |
"Hoffman, Linney and Bosco together generate such magnificent performances projecting a richly textured sense of the agony and ecstasy of a family in complicated meltdown, that it feels about as close to shared DNA as you can get." |
Prairie Miller |
- |
Save Me (2007) |
"As disagreements continue to heat up between red states and blue states, and liberals and evangelicals in this country, Save Me makes its debut as a story that may be in search of unlikely middle ground." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Scary Movie (2000) |
"Scary Movie could be said to give rise to an unprecedented new genre: the horny horror comedy." |
Prairie Miller |
- |
Semi-Pro (2008) |
"Will Ferrell Talks Semi-Pro: On growing that 'fro, Jackie Moon-ing up at the Isaac Hayes funk camp, and a Dow Chemical medieval archery sports movie in his future." |
Prairie Miller |
- |
Seven Pounds (2008) |
"Smith, in his typical impressive pressure cooker character fashion, is a nervous wreck suicidal IRS agent who raises pet jellyfish, and seems to enjoy harassing when not stalking his clients. Paging Dr. Kevorkian." |
Prairie Miller |
- |
Sex and the City - The Movie (2008) |
"The Sarah Jessica Parker Interview: On deciphering the secret guy appeal of SATC, her preference for sensible no nudity clauses, and bragging about just how fabulous making love on screen in a bra and pearls can be." |
Prairie Miller |
- |
Sex Drive (2008) |
"A libidinous road movie with outlandish auto-erotic components in more ways than one, Sex Drive is evidently engaged in a grossing contest with other more dirty talk than action raging hormone romps." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
The Shape of Things (2003) |
"The Shape of Things continues that cat-and-mouse game of wits, a kind of rebellion against viewer complacency." |
Prairie Miller |
- |
Shark Bait (1994) |
"LI Woman: Fran Drescher interview" |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Shattered Glass (2003) |
"Easily one of the most original and shrewdly crafted movies this year, amidst a glut of hollow, show-off cinematic pageantry." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
She's One of Us (2005) |
"The story finally succumbs to its own oppressive weight,rather than adequately comprehending it." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Shoot 'Em Up (2007) |
"Shoot 'Em Up is simply wild fun and nothing more, though suspiciously intent on blowing away the whole kick butt genre with a wink, while taking down as many bad guys as possible in sight." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
Shrek the Third (2007) |
"Equal parts bells and whistles short attention span three ring circus, and a pizza with the works that has so much piled on that it hasn't got the flavor of anything in particular." |
Prairie Miller |
- |
Sicko (2007) |
"With Sicko leading the way at the moment - with an indictment of HMOs for profit, and patient wellbeing nearly an afterthought - at least three selections at this year's LI International Film Expo are targeting the U.S. health care system." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Sicko (2007) |
"Moore pauses for a moment, seemingly overwhelmed by the experiences he's filming in his own movie, to ask, who are we, and what have we become." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Signs (2002) |
"M. Night Shyamalan hesitates between mayhem and mysticism." |
Prairie Miller |
- |
Silk (2007) |
"It's hard to imagine Brit beauty Knightley playing the long-suffering wife of an adulterous spouse who'd look at another woman - even if he's got a thing for a seductive geisha in faraway Japan, who happens to be the personal property of a powerful baron." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
The Simpsons Movie (2007) |
"A delectable antidote to family values dictum ad nauseam imposed on contemporary audiences, the brash attitude movietoon slugs viewers with its devilishly rude mantra of family dysfunction twisted mystique." |
Prairie Miller |
- |
Sin City (2005) |
"Jessica Alba pondered her new image as an object of sinner desire, and drawing the line when it comes to nudity because Dad just might happen to be in the audience." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Sin City (2005) |
"For those who revel in this kind of adrenaline rush spectator sport, let the games begin." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
The Singing Detective (2003) |
"Zany comic relief moments hold th film together when you might otherwise be, well, itching to flee the theater." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) |
"Equal parts touching and corny, the film is a sentimental teen girl summer adventure that has enough genuine moments to rise above its familiar feeling of plain old recycled clothing." |
Prairie Miller |
- |
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008) |
"The emotionally fragile foursome try out higher education for size, along with those transient pants. Sex And The UniverCity Meets My Big Fat Greek Shotgun Wedding." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
The Skeleton Key (2005) |
"Reinvigorates the supernatural thriller genre with a much needed infusion of new ideas and just plain nasty, digital-free mischief." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Skins (2002) |
"A craving for social order and logic where there may be little or none, and lost in a sea of white values and imposed authority irrelevant to Indian pain." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) |
"It's the story that gets in the wayof this magic show, coasting along a much more awkward path that finally hardly seems to matter." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) |
"It's the story that gets in the wayof this magic show, coasting along a much more awkward path that finally hardly seems to matter." |
Prairie Miller |
- |
Sleepwalking (2008) |
"Taking its cue from the tabloids, this is yet another addition to that tacky category of scandal sheet cinema. Why do celebrities with charmed Hollywood lives imagine everyday people as a bunch of sleazy or dimwitted degenerates, misfits and assassins." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
Slipstream (2007) |
"Stylish attempt at Hopkins visualizing post-traumatic Hollywood syndrome, but there should be a rule that movies helmed by movie stars turned directors need to come with some sort of equivalent of the Surgeon General warning label." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Slow Burn (2007) |
"Teeming with lurid atmosphere, Slow Burn touches on mutual stalking, inner city gangsta capitalism, and detonation of a ghetto as part of a lucrative urban removal gentrification scheme concocted by the city elite." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Slow Burn (2007) |
"Teeming with lurid atmosphere, Slow Burn touches on mutual stalking, inner city gangsta capitalism, and detonation of a ghetto as part of a lucrative urban removal gentrification scheme concocted by the city elite." |
Prairie Miller |
- |
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) |
"A hyperactive rags to riches yarn playing out on the mean streets of Mumbai, and with a rousing all-star Bollywood boogie finale and even a little far fetched romance tossed in, to send any problematic plot points on their way." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Small Time Crooks (2000) |
"In Small Time Crooks, Woody Allen gets back to what he does best." |
Prairie Miller |
- |
Smart People (2008) |
"A cast of such sad sacks, that it's pretty astonishing when the lusty sparks begin to fly between any of them, and with an overload of brain power coming across as some kind of mental impairment. Sarah Jessica Parker's Sex and the UniverCity comedown." |
Prairie Miller |
- |
Smoke Signals (1998) |
"Chris Eyre Interview: When we were making the movie we were many different tribes. But it's one people. And we all know it's one people. It's a sense that we were making something that was ours. And inventing ourselves." |
Prairie Miller |
- |
Snow Angels (2008) |
"Powerful performances all around, but too many tangled and twisted family trees. Scorecard, please." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Snow Cake (2007) |
"Compassionately delves into the immense frustration, heartbreak and even intermittent comic relief of life with autism, while touching on the sometimes emotionally crippling condition of just being alive, for the rest of us." |
Prairie Miller |
- |
Snow Cake (2007) |
"Compassionately delves into the immense frustration, heartbreak and even intermittent comic relief of life with autism, while touching on the sometimes emotionally crippling condition of just being alive, for the rest of us." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Something's Gotta Give (2003) |
"Gender avenger director Meyers's good natured target practice on a 60-ish Don Juan chasing tender-age babes." |
Prairie Miller |
- |
Soul Men (2008) |
"A tender, tangy and wild tale in a kooky convergence of music, memory and male bonding blues. And a movie truly about lasting impressions, where you're very likely to laugh till you cry, when not the other way around." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Spanglish (2004) |
"The film racks up points for stressing in eloquent ways the importance of one's own roots, even when dwarfed or demeaned by the lure of the dominant, more affluent culture." |
Prairie Miller |
- |
Special (2008) |
"Prankster moviemaking about a superhero duel with p-harm-aceutical barons, certain to make the deadly warnings whispered in all those gleeful drug commercials flooding TV sets across America, to never sound quite the same again." |
Prairie Miller |
- |
Speed Racer (2008) |
"The Matthew Fox Speed Racer Interview" |
Prairie Miller |
- |
Speed Racer (2008) |
"The arty blockbuster has arrived, and it's as flashy, accessorized and auto-erotic as can be. Which creates a strange sensation indeed, that it's not just the cars that are smoking, but those Wachowski brothers as well, and whatever's in their pipes too." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato 3/4 |
Spider (2003) |
"Most of Cronenberg's previous films are busy with corporeal matter—monsters or creatures—but with Spider, there's a sort of poetic singularity in that Fiennes rarely has actors to play off. The monster is his psyche, the way he interprets existence." |
Jon Lap |
Tomato |
Spider-Man 3 (2007) |
"Raimi reinvents a daring sexed up Spidey, served with a devilish mean streak and a side of cool." |
Prairie Miller |
- |
The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008) |
"Tosses together hobgoblins and home-alone latchkey kids with tomato sauce baggies as instruments of battle, bad parenting, and boy and girl savior daydreams fulfilled on screen." |
Prairie Miller |
- |
Splinter (2008) |
"Excelling in creative scaring skills, Splinter boasts thorny issues like psycho fungi who go mobile, nuclear hedgehogs, homicidal human porcupines, impromptu carnivorous rooftop dining on half a state trooper, and a dangerously defrosting savior on ice." |
Prairie Miller |
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