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  • The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)
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    A true masterpiece of modernism.

    Anton Bitel · 4.5 out of 5
    Labyrinthine set of stories-within-stories that take place during the Napoleonic Wars.
  • Sarah's Key (2010)
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    The drama of Julia's modern life quite simply can't compete with the history lesson that has gone before.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    A journalist uncovers family secrets that link her to a young Jewish girl persecuted 60 years previously.
  • Sarah's Room (2013)
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    Grant McPhee's second feature as a director, the film moves too slowly at first but gradually gathers pace, building to a much stronger conclusion.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    Acquiring a flatmate disrupts a troubled man's carefully ordered life.
  • Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic (2005)
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    Silverman jokes about the things we are all supposed to take seriously and which female comics rarely discuss.

    Sarah Artt · 3 out of 5
    Comedienne Sarah Silverman muses on race, politics and America.
  • The Sari Soldiers (2008)
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    Balanced, moving and comprehensive.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Political upheaval in Nepal seen through the eyes of six women.
  • Satan (2006)
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    At times hilarious, at others stomach-churning and always exceptionally weird, Sheitan is destined to become a cult hit.

    Leanne McGrath · 3 out of 5
    Oversexed teenagers and Satanic rituals in a remote farmhouse.
  • The Satanic Rites Of Dracula (1973)
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    Cushing, increasingly cadaverous with age, presents us with a character who may well be beginning to wonder about his own mortality.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A group of English Satanists have resurrected Count Dracula and he has a devastating plan for his revenge.
  • Satan Said Dance (2017)
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    In this deck of cards with Jokers there are wild moments, enough variety that whatever faces Karolina there is something there in black and red to conjure with.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    After the success of a novel, a woman's life starts to fall apart.
  • Saturn In Opposition (2007)
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    The “so what” factor doesn’t go away, because it is difficult to care about these people.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    A group of friends in Rome discover than happiness is transient and grief a great healer.
  • Saudade (2011)
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    This is a side of Japan not usually shown to western audiences in mainstream theatres.

    Owen Van Spall · 3 out of 5
    Ethnic tensions complicate working class lives in the industrial town of Kofu.
  • The Savages (2007)
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    A disturbingly accurate portrayal of the New York intelligentsia.

    Ben Sillis · 4.5 out of 5
    A brother and sister must cope with their elderly father’s increasing care needs.
  • Savages (2012)
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    Leads and support cast alike march their talents off a cliff like the most earnest of lemmings.

    Sophie Monks Kaufman · 1 out of 5
    A pair of pot growers clash with a drug cartel after their girlfriend is kidnapped.
  • Savage Grace (2007)
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    Always engrossing, at times decidedly uncomfortable viewing, Savage Grace is accomplished cinematic storytelling that will stay with you long after the credits have rolled.

    Paul Griffiths · 4 out of 5
    Accomplished telling of a real life upper class family's disturbing meltdown.
  • Savage Messiah (1972)
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    Succeeds admirably in its primary thrust.

    Chris · 5 out of 5
    A spectacular, highly sexualised biopic of the artist Henry Gaudier.
  • Saved! (2004)
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    The characters are neatly drawn and believable.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    High school comedy takes a side-swipe at Christian fundamentalism after a teenage girl becomes pregnant to her gay pal.
  • Save And Protect (1990)
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    Unfortunately the director, like his protagonist, is too pretentious for his own good.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    Russian retelling of Madame Bovary.
  • Save The Last Dance (2001)
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    The racial division is well-handled. The love story feels genuine and the tensions it creates are neither ignored nor washed.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Romance - and dance - across the racial divide.
  • Save Your Legs! (2012)
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    It could be comedy gold, but the ball is dropped early.

    Anton Bitel · 1.5 out of 5
    A feeble amateur cricket team blags its way into international competition.
  • Saving Face (2011)
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    This is a deserving Oscar winner and I urge you to see it.

    Val Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A doctor battles to help two women who have suffered the distressingly common fate of having acid thrown in their faces for disobeying relatives.
  • Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
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    The end result, though well-mounted and featuring knock-the-soot-out-of-your-chimney performances from Emma Thompson as Travers and Tom Hanks as the movie mogul, feels more like a Disney theme park version of events than the real story.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    The true story of Mary Poppins’ journey to the big screen.
  • Saving Santa 3D (2013)
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    You can't help feeling you've seen this all before... and not just in this movie.

    Amber Wilkinson · 1.5 out of 5
    An elf travels back in time to save Santa's sleigh
  • Sawako Decides (2009)
    Review preview for Sawako Decides

    Its occasional flashes of quirkiness are never enough to justify its overstretched duration.

    Anton Bitel · 2 out of 5
    A young woman struggles to save her family's ailing clam-packing business.
  • Sawdust And Tinsel (1953)
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    There's an impressive symmetry to the whole piece; love and art, both are firmly grounded in reality.

    Ben Sillis · 4 out of 5
    The infidelities of a circus ringmaster and his lover.
  • Sawney: Flesh Of Man (2012)
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    Sawney is a fairly accomplished first feature that at least has the good sense to revel in its silliness without resorting to self-indulgent irony.

    David Graham · 3 out of 5
    As detectives hunt for a serial killer, a tabloid crime writer uncovers the truth about the cannibal clan responsible for increasing disappearances, but he doesn't know their darkest secret.
  • Saw 3D (2010)
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    A visit to the dentist seems like light relief afterwards, and laser surgery wouldn't begin to erase the stains of tedium this moronic garbage leaves on the retina.

    David Graham · 1 out of 5
    A self-help guru falls foul of Jigsaw's legacy.
  • Saw II (2005)
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    'There will be boredom' is a more appropriate tagline for this absolutely worthless mess of a sequel.

    Gator MacReady · 1.5 out of 5
    Serial killer plays games with stupid victims in spooky old house.
  • Saw V (2008)
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    These movies have become a parody of themselves.

    Gator MacReady · 1 out of 5
    Death has never been one to keep Jigsaw and his cronies down... sadly.
  • Saxon (2007)
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    The best reason to see this might be to witness raw talent rearing its head on a non-existent budget.

    Chris · 2.5 out of 5
    A man in desperate trouble with loan sharks is persuaded to undertake a dangerous investigation.
  • Say It Isn't So (2001)
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    When the central theme is incest and the running gag a legless black man whose artificial limbs keep falling off, bad taste turns rancid.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    Bad taste comedy about incest, stroke victims and a black bush pilot with no legs.
  • Say When (2014)
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    Rom coms can damage your health

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    Girl on the brink of a disastrous marriage escapes into the teenage world for life enhancing R&R
  • Say Yes (2001)
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    Kept to a compact 80-90 minutes this could have been a classic, but the director spins it out past the point of believability.

    Jeff Robson · 3 out of 5
    A young couple on holiday in rural South Korea encounter a psychopathic stranger.
  • ScaredSacred (2004)
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    Ripper has collected some startlingly beautiful and evocative images which serve both to illuminate disaster scenes and to demonstrate that disaster is not the only thing to be found there.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A pilgrimage to the world's disaster zones.
  • Scarfies (1999)
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    It's clearly aimed at a young audience and, with this in mind, it's possible to overlook the clichéd melting pot of characters.

    Trinity · 3.5 out of 5
    A group of students find some pot plants in their basement and decide to cash in, which is fine until the owner turns up.
  • Scarlet Road (2011)
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    The fact that the director is a long-time friend of Rachel means that there was a lot of trust involved when filming her work.

    Val Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A confident, assertive sex worker discusses her work and what it means to her clients, especially those with disabilities.
  • Scars Of Dracula (1970)
    Review preview for Scars Of Dracula

    Patrick Troughton turns in a splendidly OTT performance as the titular count's loony servant.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    When his adventurous brother disappears, a young man and his girlfriend go to a small village to investigate but find the residents afraid to go outside after dark.
  • Scary Movie (2000)
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    Although very hit and miss, Scary Movie is funny enough to be worthwhile.

    Keith Hennessey Brown · 3 out of 5
    Horror spoof, based loosely on the Scream franchise.
  • Scary Movie 2 (2001)
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    The secret, by the way, is that there is nothing to say about this film, except 'Don't go'.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1.5 out of 5
    Horror movie parody sequel with squealy teenagers.
  • Scary Movie 3 (2003)
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    The gags are at death's door.

    David Stanners · 2 out of 5
    Third instalment in the comedy horror spoof.
  • Scary Movie 4 (2006)
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    The movies that David Zucker and Co are choosing to lampoon are already confined to the trash bin of history, thus rendering the film mostly purposeless.

    Gator MacReady · 2.5 out of 5
    The spoof franchise creaks while they piddle on movies that were rubbish in the first place.
  • Scar 3D (2007)
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    So nasty are parts of Scar, the latest entry to the ever-more inexplicable torture film-canon, that you wouldn't want to view it in any dimensions, let alone three of them.

    Richard Mellor · 1 out of 5
    Torture porn taken to the next dimension, which may well not be a good thing.
  • Scenes Of A Sexual Nature (2006)
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    Light and dissatisfying.

    Paul Griffiths · 2.5 out of 5
    Everyone's at it on Hampstead Heath.
  • Scheherazade, Tell Me A Story (2009)
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    Just a bit too glossy to convince.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A former talk show host, who agrees to switch to reporting on soft women's stories to help her husband's career, uncovers real politically incendiary material in the everyday lives of ordinary Egyptian women.
  • Schmitke (2014)
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    It's worth noting that this is Altricher's graduation film - he's certainly got his career off to an impressive start.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A level-headed engineer arrives to repair a creaking old wind turbine. Out there in the misty woods he also goes in search of something else deep inside him.
  • School For Scoundrels (2006)
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    Defect Six: how do you make a movie about losers that isn’t a loser itself?

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Dr P's assertiveness course encourages a manic response from its low-grade losers.
  • School For Seduction (2004)
    Review preview for School For Seduction

    Written with Kelly Brook in mind and the much-maligned former host of Channel 4's Big Breakfast just about pulls it off, despite her ropey Italian accent.

    Gary Duncan · 2.5 out of 5
    Romantic comedy about an Italian temptress who teaches the art of seduction to a group of Geordie women.
  • School Life (2016)
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    The camera of Ní Chianáin has the light touch of a welcomed guardian angel, not an intruder.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    Life at a boarding school, where the teachers' careers are drawing to a close.
  • School Of The Holy Beast (1974)
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    One minute School of the Holy Beast is titillating viewers with light porn, the next it is staging theological debates about the nature of faith and the problem of evil.

    Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
    A celebration of sadomasochism and other painful pleasures in a naughty nunnery.
  • Science Is Fiction: The Films of Jean Painlevé (2007)
    Review preview for Science Is Fiction: The Films of Jean Painlevé

    His unbridled enthusiasm and his metaphorical flourishes ensure that viewers are always as engaged as they are alienated by his peculiar subject matter.

    Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
    Collection of groundbreaking films from the French documentarian.
  • Scintilla (2014)
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    Scintilla is minimal, efficient, entertaining.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    Trouble lurks in an underground military research facility.
  • Scorched (2003)
    Review preview for Scorched

    A car wreck has more style.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    Three employees in a small Nevada bank have plans to rob it on the same weekend.

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