Sweet and Lowdown
December 10, 1999 | Emmet Ray is the greatest jazz guitarist of the 1930s – something he never tires of telling everyone he meets in Woody Allen’s Sweet and Lowdown –…
Sweet Home Alabama
September 27, 2002 | There's something positively mind-numbing about the relentless predictability of Sweet Home Alabama, an insipid romantic comedy that forces Reese Witherspoon, the agreeably perky star of Legally…
The Sure Thing
March 1, 1985 | The Sure Thing is a nice, sweet-natured, generally unremarkable movie that’s as comfy-cozy and satisfying as a warm bath. The biggest surprise is that it comes…
Stuck On You
December 12, 2003 | Don't look now, but Bobby and Peter Farrelly - the cheery vulgarians who gave us Kingpin, Dumb and Dumber and There's Something About Mary - have…
Starsky & Hutch
March 5, 2004 | Some very clever and extremely talented people were involved in the making of Starsky & Hutch, presumably because they couldn't find anything better to do than…
Spring Forward
December 8, 2000 | At once intriguingly allusive and rigorously precise, in the manner of an exceptionally well-crafted short story, writer-director Tom Gilroy's Spring Forward is a richly yet…
Spider-Man
May 3, 2002 | Let me throw a great big flopping prejudice right out on the table: Even since I plunked down twelve cents for my first Marvel Comic many…
Spartan
March 12, 2004 | Spartan is a nifty, twisty thriller about the hunt for an abducted First Daughter. And one of the coolest things about the movie is, nobody…
Something’s Gotta Give
December 12, 2003 | In an age when fast-and-furious youth-skewing farces are accepted, however grudgingly, as the contemporary equivalents of classical romantic comedies, it's nothing short of delightful to encounter…
Solaris
November 27, 2002 | If ambition and audacity were enough to sustain a film, Steven Soderbergh’s Solaris would have a legitimate claim to instant-classic status. What we have here is a…