Splat 2/4 |
S1m0ne (2002) |
"a media satire that ultimately lacks bite" |
James Kendrick |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Sahara (2005) |
"jumps from plotline to plotline, stringing them together with a series of action setpieces that fulfill their obligations, but little more" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Salesman (1968) |
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James Kendrick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Salesman (1968) |
"a stark, indelible cinematic portrait of the trials and tribulations of the door-to-door salesman, a profession that is virtually extinct today" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 4/4 |
Salo, Or The 120 Days of Sodom (1975) |
"While it is easy to think of Salò as simply depraved, it is ultimately a savage plea for humanity" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Salvador (1986) |
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James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Salvador (1986) |
"most compelling in the vigor with which it takes its stance on American involvement in Central America" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Salvatore Giuliano (1961) |
"Rosi extended neorealism and made it his own by marrying the realist aesthetic to the exposure of power dynamics" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Sanjuro (1962) |
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James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Sasayaki (Moonlight Whispers) (2000) |
"gleefully perverse, but Shiota keep the tone restrained and suggestive, rather than obvious and graphic" |
James Kendrick |
Splat 2/5 |
Savage Grace (2008) |
"Provocative but frustratingly shallow." |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
The Savages (2007) |
"Jenkins is a provocateur to be sure, but she also has a heart, which is why her films don't come across as mean even when dealing comically with issues of death, debilitation, and emotional trauma." |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Saved! (2004) |
"There are plenty of ways to share your faith with others, and [I]Saved![/I] only mocks the ones that put people down in the process." |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 4/4 |
Saving Private Ryan (1998) |
"With complete visual and aural technical mastery, Spielberg and Kaminski thrust us face-first into the fighting, and never let us back out for two hours and forty minutes." |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Sawdust and Tinsel (1953) |
"holds out a modicum of hope, but only enough to suggest that human relationships, despite their difficulties, are what keep us together" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 4/4 |
Say Anything (1989) |
"Crowe's script is honest and straightforward in its simplicity, yet deeply moving in its details and nuances." |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 4/4 |
Say Anything (1989) |
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James Kendrick |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Say It Isn't So (2001) |
"most of their jokes are forced, silly, or just not funny" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Scandal (1989) |
"more interested in the people rather than the parts they played in a national scandal" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Scandal (1989) |
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James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Scarlet Empress (1934) |
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James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Scarlet Empress (1934) |
"a dense, visually astounding portrait of a woman evolving from an innocent, inexperienced, and idealistic girl to a shrewd, calculating empress" |
James Kendrick |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Scary Movie (2000) |
"did it really require six screenwriters to tack tasteless jokes onto Kevin Williamson's "Scream" screenplay for less than an hour and a half?" |
James Kendrick |
Splat 2/4 |
Scary Movie 2 (2001) |
"fast-paced, sloppy, and pretty dumb, but it's over quickly" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 4/4 |
Scenes from a Marriage (1973) |
"drives deep into a set of universal emotions with which anyone who has been in a serious relationship can identify on some level" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 4/4 |
Schindler's List (1993) |
"one of the most devastatingly emotional films ever made" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Schizopolis (1996) |
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James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Schizopolis (1996) |
"However, if there is a revelation in Schizopolis, it’s Soderbergh himself, who proves, in his only acting role to date, to be an extremely gifted comedic actor." |
James Kendrick |
Splat 2/5 |
School for Scoundrels (2006) |
"School for Scoundrels has some good ideas and funny moments, but it loses steam as it goes on, which you really feel when it resorts to yuks involving defibrillator paddles accidentally applied to a character’s genitals." |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
School of Rock (2003) |
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James Kendrick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
School of Rock (2003) |
"a shining example of how good Hollywood comedies can be when the right minds are behind them" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Science of Sleep (2006) |
"Gondry manages to keep his balance for most of the film, deriving humor and pathos from Stéphane's difficulties with his waking life." |
James Kendrick |
Splat 2/4 |
Scooby-Doo - The Movie (2002) |
"the most strained jokes and unfunniest moments are when the movie tries to be hip in a postmodern, self-conscious kind of way" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Score (2001) |
"a solid piece of old-fashioned genre work starring a brilliantly assembled cast of heavyweight American actors" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Scorpion King (2002) |
"entertaining enough to get the job done" |
James Kendrick |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Scorpion King (2002) |
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James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Scream (1996) |
"a nineties-style teenage slasher movie with just enough tongue-in-cheek understanding of its own silliness to make it gruesomely fun without being insulting" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Scream 2 (1997) |
"dances delicately around its inherently cheesy material by being an effective thriller adhering to the rules of the genre while simultaneously mocking itself" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Scream 3 (2000) |
"Unfortunately, this final installment, while answering some lingering questions, still doesn't feel essential." |
James Kendrick |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Scream 3 (2000) |
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James Kendrick |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Seabiscuit (2003) |
"Unfortunately, too much of Seabiscuit forces its ideas on us, rather than allowing us to discover them for ourselves." |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) |
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James Kendrick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) |
"The film’s extraordinary power derives from the way in which actress Kim Stanley convinces us of her character's conviction, no matter how misguided and, ultimately, pathetic." |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 4/4 |
Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) |
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James Kendrick |
Tomato 4/4 |
Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) |
"The film's simple message is that no one thing should ever dominate anyone's life, no matter how good he or she is at it." |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Seconds (1966) |
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James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Seconds (1966) |
"What really grabs you in Seconds is the unique visual style." |
James Kendrick |
Splat 2/4 |
Secret Window (2004) |
"for a while it works, right up until its dreadfully silly ending" |
James Kendrick |
Splat 2/5 |
Semi-Pro (2008) |
"In the end it’s too simply all too familiar." |
James Kendrick |
Splat 2.5/5 |
The Sentinel (2006) |
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James Kendrick |
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