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Saawariya (2007) |
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Splat 1/5 |
Sakuran (2006) |
"The pop star Anna Tsuchiya is duly fetching as the young upstart, but not fetching enough to prop up a cast-iron potboiler." |
James Christopher |
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Salaam-e-Ishq (2007) |
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Tomato 3/5 |
Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic (2005) |
"Hit’n’miss gags that target 9/11, rape, the Holocaust and Aids (“If God gives you Aids, I say, ‘Make Lemon-Aids’!”) prove that Silverman is a gifted performer but that sometimes busting taboos isn’t enough in itself." |
Kevin Maher |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Savages (2007) |
"Jenkins’s solemn comedy may be 389 jokes short of a Woody Allen classic, but there is a tenderness about these flawed heroes that is profoundly touching." |
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Splat |
Scar |
"The acting is more wooden than the numerous coffins, the plot a rehash of any crazed serial killer flick you care to mention, with extra torture. It’s unremittingly nasty stuff." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 5/5 |
Scarface (1983) |
"Scarface has become a touchstone of pop culture, one of the half dozen or so most frequently referenced films of our era." |
Toby Young |
Splat 2/5 |
School for Scoundrels (2006) |
"A choice cast fails to turn this woeful slapstick into the scathing attack on weak minds the film half promises." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Science of Sleep (2006) |
"Gondry always manages to maintain a childlike wonder in the magic of creating a moving image, and never is it more evident than in this film." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 1/5 |
The Secret Life of Bees (2008) |
"Tragedies strike and life lessons are learnt, homespun wisdom is dispensed. It’s simplistic to the point of total idiocy." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Secret of Moonacre (2008) |
"Apart from some wooden over-acting, The Secret of Moonacre is a shrewd mix of live action and exotic animation by the Hungarian director Gabor Csupo." |
James Christopher |
Splat 1/5 |
The Seeker (2007) |
"The Dark is Rising is one of those awful sorcery tales where a spotty young boy (Alexander Ludwig) suddenly gets to save the Earth from supernatural creeps such as Christopher Eccleston." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 3/5 |
Semi-Pro (2008) |
"The movie's absurdist humour and muted ambitions have paved a path for slipshod anarchy, and hinted at greater things to come from future Ferrell movies." |
Kevin Maher |
Tomato 4/5 |
The September Issue (2009) |
"Director, R. J. Cutler, gradually gets under the surface of this glossy universe, and the resulting film feels accurate and true." |
Toby Young |
Splat 2/5 |
Seraphim Falls (2007) |
"The edgy pleasure is to be found in the sheer brutality of the chase and the bitter struggle to survive the elements." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 3/5 |
Séraphine (2008) |
"A classy drama and a sympathetic portrait of two outsiders and the vibrant, unsettling work that binds them." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 4/5 |
A Serious Man (2009) |
"A Serious Man represents the brothers at their sardonic best, wringing a sacrilegious amount of gallows humour from the trials of their latterday Job." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 1/5 |
Seven Pounds (2008) |
"Seven Pounds is a profoundly irritating mystery about a profoundly silly man." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 5/5 |
The Seventh Seal (1957) |
"Ingmar Bergman’s black and white masterpiece The Seventh Seal has matured like a great wine over 50 years." |
James Christopher |
Splat 2/5 |
Sex Drive (2008) |
"It’s crushingly generic stuff — a combination of gross-out gags and clammy sentiment — but Seth Green’s cameo as a sardonic Amish car mechanic has its moments." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 0/5 |
Sex Lives of the Potato Men (2004) |
"This doesn't have the wit to stagger to the end of the pier." |
James Christopher |
Splat 1/5 |
Shadows in the Sun |
"There’s more drama in a breakfast cereal ad." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat |
Shattered Glass (2003) |
"Lacks the journalistic killer instinct that could have elevated it above the well-executed but slightly sanctimonious, made-for-TV feel" |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato |
Shaun of the Dead (2004) |
"It is, in terms of pacing, comic references and home furnishings, an undeniably British production, and hugely enjoyable for it." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 2/5 |
She Hate Me (2004) |
"If this is a subtle inversion of the sex wars it passed clear over my head as Anthony Mackie grunts his way through five ecstatic women a night" |
James Christopher |
Tomato 3/5 |
Sherlock Holmes (2009) |
"The film never recovers the head of steam from the opening ... but the Holmes-Watson duo fizzes to the end. On this showing, they deserve another case." |
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Tomato 3/5 |
Shifty (2008) |
"The production values are lo-fi but spirited performances, matey humour and an edgy authenticity carry the story." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 3/5 |
Shoot 'Em Up (2007) |
"It is utter nonsense and completely reprehensible morally. But it’s an outrageous amount of fun." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 2/5 |
Shooter (2007) |
"Ultimately, it’s just a vigilante picture with ideas above its station." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 2/5 |
Shorts (2009) |
"So structurally complicated that it almost qualifies as an experimental film and if it fails — as it does — it would be uncharitable to condemn Rodriguez for that." |
Toby Young |
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Shot in Bombay (2008) |
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Splat 2/5 |
Shrek the Third (2007) |
"Children may devour the slapstick, but the once-mighty Shrek has somehow lost all his charm and spiky humour." |
James Christopher |
Splat 3/5 |
Shut Up & Sing (2006) |
"It was a throwaway scrap of a comment tossed to an audience baying with appreciation." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 3/5 |
Shutter |
"The first-time directors, Parkpoom Wongpoom and Banjong Pisanthanakun, might not have names that roll off the tongue, but they have a way of getting noticed." |
James Christopher |
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Shutter (2004) |
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Splat 2/5 |
Sicko (2007) |
"Moore can’t resist over-egging the ironies, or revelling in the absurd. [There's] a strong whiff of sanctimony about Moore’s mighty indignation. It draws the sting from his satire." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 3/5 |
Sicko (2007) |
"While we all have our grumbles about the NHS, it’s hard not to be caught up in Moore’s righteous indignation on behalf of his countrymen, or not to feel a twitch of pride in our own." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 4/5 |
Silent Night (2006) |
"The film requires an investment from audiences that it more than repays." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 1/5 |
Silk (2007) |
"Crashing bore of a movie." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Simpsons Movie (2007) |
"Funny, clever and at times even hilarious... But sadly, it’s also a minor movie and never more inspiring than the sum of its admittedly witty parts." |
Kevin Maher |
Splat 2/5 |
Sin Nombre (2009) |
"For all its formal élan and gritty location shooting, Sin Nombre is a wearily hollow, morally specious movie." |
Kevin Maher |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Singer (2006) |
"Gerard Depardieu as the walrus of lurve chansons? It’s unlikely, but it works." |
Ed Potton |
Splat 3/5 |
Sketches of Frank Gehry (2006) |
"Ultimately the picture is as revealing about the director as it is about the subject. But it won’t appeal to those who like their documentaries to come armed with teeth." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 3/5 |
Skin (2009) |
"Laing’s troubled history is full of heart-wrenching tragedy and, for most of its running time, Skin is very effective. The trouble is, it feels quite small, more like a Movie of the Week than a fully fledged feature." |
Toby Young |
Tomato 4/5 |
Sleep Furiously (2008) |
"Images of wistful sadness — lone figures with plodding dogs on rain-lashed hillsides — are interlaced with humour and moments of skin-prickling beauty that leave the audience undone." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 4/5 |
Sleeping Dogs Lie (2006) |
"Hamilton is wonderful as the bruised victim of an oedipal insanity for truth." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 3/5 |
Slepe Lásky (2008) |
"A sweet, if slightly stagey, documentary-drama." |
Ed Potton |
Tomato 3/5 |
Sleuth (2007) |
"This is the kind of intimate physicality that Pinter pumps into Shaffer’s script. But it will take a better director than Branagh to tease it into the real world." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 4/5 |
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) |
"Mumbai’s brand new skyscrapers sprout out of patches of mud; Jamal’s old-fashioned principles will forever be out of synch with the slick, nightclub world that his older brother Salim inhabits. And so it goes. The romance? Fear not. It’s fabulous icing." |
James Christopher |
Splat 1/5 |
Smokin' Aces (2007) |
"Even after ten final minutes of laboured explanation of the final twist, the plot is still riddled with holes so large that you could march an army through them." |
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