Splat 1/4 |
S.W.A.T. (2003) |
"Think of a citywide version of John Carpenter’s B-movie gem Assault on Precinct 13 and you’ve just imagined a better movie than S.W.A.T." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2004) |
"Panh is a great theorist, successfully evoking life and death at a forced labor camp with as little as a pan across a painting." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Sacco & Vanzetti (2007) |
"The documentary is a very dry accumulation of information, but the case of Sacco and Vanzetti haunts us to this day when immigrants continue to be scapegoated by our nation's politicos." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
The Saddest Music in the World (2004) |
"An enjoyable DVD release of a wonderfully strange film." |
Joshua Vasquez |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Saddest Music in the World (2004) |
"Guy Maddin’s snow globe cinema, hermetically sealed in ghostly adoration of silent cinema, is well matched to this darkly comic fable." |
Joshua Vasquez |
Tomato |
Safe (1995) |
"Columbia Tristar's long overdue DVD of Safe features an insightful commentary by Haynes, Moore and producer Christine Vachon." |
Sal Cinquemani |
Tomato |
Safe (1995) |
"Todd Haynes' enviro-disease masterpiece Safe might just be the most terrifying film of the last decade." |
Sal Cinquemani |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Safe Conduct (2002) |
"At nearly three hours, the whole of Safe Conduct is less than the sum of its parts." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Sahara (2005) |
"As dry and lifeless as its sun-burnt locale." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Saint of 9/11 (2006) |
"The film only scrapes the surface of Mychal Judge's personal life, but it does grapple with the way his personal identity shaped his righteousness." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
Saint Ralph (2005) |
"Saint Ralph is content paying lip service to Catholicism, choosing instead to pander to fans of anyone who got off during Children of Heaven and Millions." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
Salo, Or The 120 Days of Sodom (1975) |
"Hate ****." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Salo, Or The 120 Days of Sodom (1975) |
"Fastidiously attuned to the denial of the comforting release of either eroticism or expulsion, Pasolini's boudoirs of perversion lack De Sade's scarlet hedonism. Quite the opposite, his boners reveal only the presence of spiritual rigor mortis." |
Eric Henderson |
Splat 1/4 |
The Salon (2005) |
"I've seen porn with better dialogue and SNL sketches with less amateur production values." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat |
Saludos Amigos (1943) |
"The menu buttons are shaped like sombreros. I trust I needn't say more." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Salvador Allende (2004) |
"Less effective as a portrait of Allende than it is as a commentary on the documentary medium itself—art as a means of resuscitating history." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
Samaritan Girl (2004) |
"An under-thought formula linking sex, youth, and violence.
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Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
The Samuel Fuller Film Collection (2009) |
"The Film Foundation offers a Fuller understanding of film noir through one of the genre's most unique participants." |
Joseph Jon Lanthier |
Splat 2/4 |
Sangre (2005) |
"If the title of the film was meant to be ironic then Escalante's parody has fallen on deaf ears and blind eyes." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Sangre de Mi Sangre (2008) |
"Winner of the 2006 Sundance Grand Jury Prize, Padre Nuestro unfortunately lives down to the dubious nature (with a few notable exceptions) of that so-called honor." |
Keith Uhlich |
Tomato |
Sans Soleil (1982) |
"Criterion has entered the zone. But here's to hoping they can expand through time and space to bring some of Marker's less famed works to Region 1." |
Eric Henderson |
Splat 1/4 |
The Santa Clause 2 (2002) |
"Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory has more life and cheer in any given shot than the whole of Santa Clause 2." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat |
The Santa Clause 2 (2002) |
"Just in time for Thanksgiving, Buena Vista Home Entertainment releases one of their biggest turkeys in years on DVD." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1/4 |
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006) |
"Kids, you can tell how much your parents love you by how far away they keep you from this worthless fiasco." |
Rob Humanick |
Tomato 4/4 |
Saraband (2005) |
"Bergman consistently evokes the ghost of history in Saraband." |
Keith Uhlich |
Tomato 3/4 |
Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic (2005) |
"Not quite as raunchy, but twice as offensive, as The Aristocrats." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Sasquatch Gang (2007) |
"Tim Skousen was first assistant director on Napoleon Dynamite, and he does little other than mimic its slightly off-kilter comedic tone and bizarre misfit characters." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato |
Satan's Playground (2005) |
"Satan's Playground announces filmmaker Dante Tomaselli as a horror talent to watch out for." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
Satan's Playground (2005) |
"A storybook fairy tale on acid." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Tomato 4/4 |
Satantango (1994) |
"Sátántangó is structured in a repetitive chronology that apes the rhythmic tally of the tango." |
Rumsey Taylor |
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Satellite (2006) |
"If you wish to revolutionize your life, hop on the back of a motorcycle and hit the road. That's the philosophy of the two young lovers in Jeff Winner's independent film, Satellite." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Satellite (2006) |
"Satellite is about the idealism of love and how that is placed within the complex and contradictory real world." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Tomato |
Saturday Night Fever (1977) |
"In a just world, this movie would've been soundtracked with Donna Summer's "Could It Be Magic" and Diana Ross's "Love Hangover." So, in other words, the soundtrack to Looking for Mr. Goodbar." |
Eric Henderson |
Splat 2/4 |
Saturday Night Fever (1977) |
"Saturday Night Fever's heart is actually in the right place. It's ears, though? That's another story." |
Eric Henderson |
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Savage Grace (2008) |
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Splat 2/4 |
Savage Grace (2008) |
"Rather than imitate the postmodernism chic of Far from Heaven or the parodic silliness of Die, Mommie, Die!, Kalin settles for a nondescript style whose sole function is to stay out of Moore's way." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1/4 |
The Savages (2007) |
"The Savages naturally invites comparisons to Away From Her--all of them unflattering." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 2/4 |
Save Me (2007) |
"Until about two-thirds of the way in, Save Me plays its central hypothesis surprisingly, um, straight." |
Andrew Schenker |
Tomato 3/4 |
Save The Green Planet! (2005) |
"Save the Green Planet is about the best science fiction slapstick since The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai." |
Chris Barsanti |
Tomato |
Saved! (2004) |
"Just as The Passion of the Christ connects Christians to God via an unhealthy spectacle of violence, Saved! inspires anti-Christian resentment via bad comedy." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat .5/4 |
Saved! (2004) |
"This is a film that sees only in black-and-white." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Saving Marriage (2008) |
"Leans on players in the policymaking game as talking heads on issues and tactics, people with a personal stake in the outcome to fully humanize the issue and a few who straddle both categories." |
Bill Weber |
Splat 2/4 |
Saving Shiloh (2006) |
"If Sandy Tung's film had flavor, it might taste like a week-old bagel." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat |
Saving Shiloh (2006) |
"Wait until next month when you can save Shiloh from the discount DVD bin at your local supermarket." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
Saw (2004) |
"Predictably, the twists exist for their own sake and aren’t grounded in character or theme." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Saw II (2005) |
"Unable to deliver the single novel concept or unexpected surprise that might justify its existence." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 2/4 |
Saw III (2006) |
"Peddles gruesomeness of a disgusting rather than frightening order." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 1/4 |
Saw IV (2007) |
"An excessively convoluted rehash of its predecessors." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 1/4 |
Saw V (2008) |
"Deadly traps may remain the bread and butter of the Saw series, but the real trick has become keeping these fetid sequels moderately fresh." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 1.0/4.0 |
Saw VI (2009) |
"Saw VI plays like the last gasp for relevance of a heavy-metal series that has not only gone regurgitation-rusty but seems lacking much of a will to live." |
Nick Schager |
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