Splat D |
S1m0ne (2002) |
"Simone is about a person who doesn’t exist, and by the time it ends you wonder if there’s even as much substance in the person who made it." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato 5/5 |
Saturday Night Fever (1977) |
"Travolta's breakthrough performance and John Badham's vibrant NYC locations make this a far more enlightening story of youth and rebellion than the mere kitsch of the film's contemporary reputation." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato |
Saturday Night Fever (1977) |
"it’s one of the best films ever made about disaffected youth and the pains of discovering your place in society" |
Jason Clark |
Tomato short |
Save the Last Dance (2001) |
"Told with a refreshing lack of sensationalism." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat C |
Save the Last Dance (2001) |
"Unbearably faithful to the Hollywood cliché checklist." |
Joe McGovern |
Tomato B- |
Saving Grace (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
Joe McGovern |
Splat short |
Saving Private Ryan (1998) |
"Spielberg trades in his usually powerful ideals for an unsettling combination of phony humanism and pandering realism." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat F |
Saving Silverman (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
Rob Morlino |
Splat C+ |
Say Anything (1989) |
"The new DVD of the film is as indulgent and silly as the film is warm and complex" |
Jason Clark |
Tomato short |
Scary Movie (2000) |
"One of the most appallingly hysterical movies of all time." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat D- |
Scary Movie (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
Joshua Vasquez |
Splat D |
Scary Movie 2 (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
Joe McGovern |
Splat |
Scooby-Doo - The Movie (2002) |
"This is the kind of woeful trash heap where you have to say that the best thing about it is Matthew Lillard" |
Jason Clark |
Splat C- |
Scooby-Doo - The Movie (2002) |
"Scooby-Doo doesn’t know if it wants to be a retro-refitting exercise in campy recall for older fans or a silly, Nickelodeon-esque kiddie flick." |
Joshua Vasquez |
Splat C |
The Score (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
Joshua Vasquez |
Splat D- |
The Scorpion King (2002) |
"Reeks of rot and hack work from start to finish." |
Joshua Vasquez |
Splat D- |
Scotland, PA (2002) |
"Less about Shakespeare than the spawn of fools who saw Quentin Tarantino's handful of raucous gangster films and branched out into their own pseudo-witty copycat interpretations." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Splat C- |
Scream 3 (2000) |
"There's no inspiration to be found in its routine slayings and movie-insider puns." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat 0/5 |
Search & Destroy (1995) |
No article available. |
Jason Clark |
Splat |
Secretary (2002) |
"The intrigue is replaced with post-feminist affectations that mar the central story, and leave its game actors stranded in movie limbo" |
Jason Clark |
Splat C- |
Secretary (2002) |
"A fairy tale romance wrapped within the fantasia of sadomasochistic games, Steven Shainberg's Secretary takes devious routes only to arrive at an old-fashioned finale." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Tomato A- |
Series 7: The Contenders (2001) |
"It manages to capture us, the faithful viewers, into its quick-edit, fast food world." |
Jason Clark |
Splat D- |
Sexy Beast (2001) |
"There is nothing tangible to hold onto, just a lot of sound and fury and bloodied-up gangsters." |
Jason Clark |
Splat |
Shadow Magic (2001) |
"What makes Shadow Magic a mixed bag, both emotionally and thematically, is its burden of debt to mass appeal." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato short |
Shadow of the Vampire (2000) |
"At once a horror film, a black comedy, and a peculiar ode to the art of filmmaking, Shadow of the Vampire is best appreciated as a straight-faced fantasy." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat C |
Shadow of the Vampire (2000) |
"An undisciplined film crying out for a sculpting hand to pull together its various fragments from out of their frantic orbits and bring it a much needed unification." |
Joshua Vasquez |
Splat C |
Shaft (2000) |
"A messy, slapdash remake of Gordon Parks' overheated and overrated 1971 blaxploitation cash-in." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato B+ |
Shallow Hal (2001) |
"Shallow Hal is the most endearing portrait of outcasts since last year’s Ghost World." |
Jason Clark |
Tomato B+ |
Shallow Hal (2001) |
"Disguised as a gross-out comedy simply in order to get made, it's a heartfelt portrait of living in our own skin." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Splat C- |
Shanghai Noon (2000) |
"Even at under two hours, Shanghai Noon feels lengthier than a double bill of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat C+ |
The Shipping News (2001) |
"It seems there is almost no prized novel that director Lasse Hallstrom couldn’t make duller and less purposeful." |
Jason Clark |
Splat D+ |
The Shipping News (2001) |
"Its lack of Oscar-clip moments notwithstanding, The Shipping News is nothing if not predictable." |
Joe McGovern |
Splat C- |
Shower (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jason Clark |
Splat |
Showtime (2002) |
"Showtime is about as crass and ridiculous as a motion picture can get without having the name Jerry Bruckheimer attached to it" |
Jason Clark |
Splat C |
Shrek (2001) |
"A well-lubricated toxic waste machine that ingests and regurgitates as much slime as its cynical title character." |
Joe McGovern |
Tomato B |
Sidewalks of New York (2001) |
"Its essential good nature makes it impossible not to like." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato B |
Signs (2002) |
"If Signs is a good film, and it is, the essence of a great one is in there somewhere." |
Joshua Vasquez |
Tomato short |
Simpatico (1999) |
"Nolte and Bridges are naturals together." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato 6/10 |
Simpatico (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
Joe McGovern |
Tomato short |
Simply Irresistible (1999) |
"Evokes the seductive power of a musical." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat 1/5 |
Single White Female (1992) |
No article available. |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato 3/5 |
Sirens (1994) |
No article available. |
Jason Clark |
Tomato 4/5 |
Six Degrees of Separation (1993) |
"Bitingly funny, with superb performances from Channing and Sutherland." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat short |
The Sixth Sense (1999) |
"No better than any dime-store thriller collecting dust over at Blockbuster." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato B |
The Sixth Sense (1999) |
No article available. |
Jason Clark |
Splat D |
Skins (2002) |
"It’s another video movie photographed like a film, with the bad lighting that’s often written off as indie film naturalism." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Tomato C |
The Skulls (2000) |
"Gleefully plunges through the silliness with remarkable conviction; there's a thrill to be had. Time and money are rarely wasted in such entertaining and inoffensive ways." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato C+ |
Slackers (2002) |
"One of those movies that isn’t good at all, yet somehow manages to be fairly funny in its extreme misjudgment." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato 4/5 |
Sleeper (1973) |
No article available. |
Jason Clark |
Splat short |
Sleepy Hollow (1999) |
"Devoid of originality and cunning." |
Chuck Rudolph |
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