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  • Shooting Dogs (2005)
    Review preview for Shooting Dogs

    It's shocking that a fictional story, based on true events, is more emotionally affecting than watching the reality on the news.

    Kotleta · 5 out of 5
    The Rwanda genocide revisited.
  • Shooting For Socrates (2014)
    Review preview for Shooting For Socrates

    It's fairly formulaic, but it delivers a fair tribute for fans who remember how those days felt, and an important, if simplistic, picture of a time and place.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    The story of Northern Ireland's 1986 World Cup bid and its influence on the folks back home.
  • Shoot 'Em Up (2007)
    Review preview for Shoot 'Em Up

    A violent showdown where style (in its purest form) outshoots substance from the very first draw.

    Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
    An action man tries to protect a newborn baby during a gun battle. Out to own on DVD now.
  • Shoot On Sight (2007)
    Review preview for Shoot On Sight

    Depending on your outlook, Shoot On Sight is either an opportunity missed, or a diamond in the rough.

    Keith Dudhnath · 3.5 out of 5
    An innocent man is shot on the London Underground.
  • Shortbus (2006)
    Review preview for Shortbus

    Funny, sensitive, engaging, and full of real characters whom you can really care about.

    Chris · 4.5 out of 5
    An avant-garde examination of the diverse sexual experiences of a group of New Yorkers.
  • Shorts (2009)
    Review preview for Shorts

    What would be a relatively slight tale is made much more intriguing by the presentation.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    A collection of stories about the adventures that ensue after a young boy discovers a magical wishing rock.
  • Short Cut To Hollywood (2009)
    Review preview for Short Cut To Hollywood

    An extremely black comedy with a painfully alienating central premise.

    Adam Micklethwaite · 1.5 out of 5
    An ageing boy band try to make it big in the States.
  • Short Term 12 (2013)
    Review preview for Short Term 12

    The film’s simplicity is its strength.

    Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
    Story of a counsellor at a foster care centre.
  • A Shot At Glory (2000)
    Review preview for A Shot At Glory

    Duvall is crippled by an accent that lurches from Partick to Dublin and back again. His body language speaks to Cincinnati, rather than Sauchihall Street.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Football club minnows take on the big guys.
  • Shower (1999)
    Review preview for Shower

    The messages it leaves on the walls of your consciousness are not political, but sentimental in the best sense.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    The traditions of a Beijing bathhouse come under threat from modern Chinese attitudes.
  • Show Me Love (1998)
    Review preview for Show Me Love

    Both actresses give performances that touch the heart.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    A teenaged girl develops a crush on her female pal.
  • The Shrine (2010)
    Review preview for The Shrine

    A mirthless hybrid of different subgenre elements that, though merged with a twist, remain resolutely bland to the end.

    Anton Bitel · 2 out of 5
    Three journalists find themselves in danger when on the trail of a cult which just might be practising human sacrifice.
  • Shrooms (2006)
    Review preview for Shrooms

    I'm questioning a movie that just positively begs someone to watch while consuming a large wad of illegal hallucinogens - I should give up asking for sense.

    Scott Macdonald · 2 out of 5
    A trip too far...
  • Shutter (2004)
    Review preview for Shutter

    The latest in the line of hairy hauntings, Shutter, for the most part conforms to expectations, although it has a pay off which lifts it above the pack.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    A man and his girlfriend become haunted by the spirit of a girl after a road accident.
  • Shutter (2008)
    Review preview for Shutter

    Horror-by-numbers, not so different from wearing a blindfold and having a friend burst crisp packets behind one's head at random intervals.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    After a car accident, an American couple working in Japan suspect they are being haunted - but why?
  • Shut In (2016)
    Review preview for Shut In

    It's hard to imagine that this was the best version that could be salvaged from the editing room.

    Jennie Kermode · 1.5 out of 5
    A child psychologist trapped in an isolated house by a storm tries to rescue a vulnerable boy.
  • Shut Up! (2003)
    Review preview for Shut Up!

    Gerard Depardieu... gives a performance that is accurate, sincere and unwatchable.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1.5 out of 5
    The stupidest crook in France joins forces with the most ruthless hitman in Paris.
  • Shut Up And Kiss Me (2010)
    Review preview for Shut Up And Kiss Me

    Stylistically, the film makes an effort to find its own voice and has a bit more personality than many romcoms.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    A shy man struggles to find romance in a world where the men he meets only seem interested in sex.
  • Shut Up And Shoot Me (2006)
    Review preview for Shut Up And Shoot Me

    As a full-length no-brainer it just about qualifies for a low attention span afternoon.

    Chris · 2.5 out of 5
    A bumbling Englishman hires an equally incompetent assassin to kill him.
  • Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure (2011)
    Review preview for Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure

    The movie also has much to say about this none-too-subtle take on voyeurism, and the nature of unexpurgated creativity uninhibited by copyright.

    Scott Macdonald · 4 out of 5
    Two men record their loudmouthed neighbours, share their foul ramblings, and accidentally make them into underground stars.
  • Siam Sunset (1999)
    Review preview for Siam Sunset

    As an example of comic ideas going to waste, Aussie actor John Polson's directorial debut is a good one.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5
    A man hooks up with a group of eccentrics on a roadtrip after the death of his wife.
  • Siblings - For Better Or Worse (2011)
    Review preview for Siblings - For Better Or Worse

    Siblings: For Better Or Worse comprises a collection of four short documentary features - each dealing with a different set of circumstances. They're all well-made.

    Scott Macdonald · 3 out of 5
    Four short films allow children from around the world to describe their feelings about their siblings.
  • Sicario (2015)
    Review preview for Sicario

    Villeneuve sustains the knife-edge tension without a blip.

    Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
    A young female FBI agent joins a secret CIA operation to take down a Mexican cartel boss, a job that ends up pushing her ethical and moral values to the limit.
  • Sick (2015)
    Review preview for Sick

    What marks her film out is a graceful empathy that helps us feel at least a little of what Ana is going through as well as see it.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Story of a woman who was locked up in a psychiatric hospital by her parents in a bid to 'cure' her of her homosexuality.
  • Sicko (2007)
    Review preview for Sicko

    Moore’s sense of outrage is as keen as ever, as is his showman’s instinct for what makes good documentary cinema.

    Jeff Robson · 3.5 out of 5
    Michael Moore investigates corruption in the American health insurance industry.
  • The Sick House (2007)
    Review preview for The Sick House

    Like all slasher movies, you know the cast will be picked off one by one in increasingly disturbing ways.

    Leanne McGrath · 1.5 out of 5
    The spirit of a murderous doctor continues to kill kill kill from beyond the grave.
  • Sidewalks Of New York (2001)
    Review preview for Sidewalks Of New York

    The humour is acerbic.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Ensemble New York social comedy about the impossibility of finding the right sexual partner.
  • Side By Side (2012)
    Review preview for Side By Side

    You will learn a few things here, even if you are a film buff.

    Owen Van Spall · 3 out of 5
    Documentary exploring the science behind the development of digital cinema technology and its effects.
  • Side By Side (2013)
    Review preview for Side By Side

    A meandering, overlong trek of a film.

    Anton Bitel · 2 out of 5
    A brother and sister set off on a road trip and discover that together they can deal with anything.
  • Side Effects (2013)
    Review preview for Side Effects

    Soderbergh, just as he did with his 2011 film Contagion shows that the disaster you expected safely elsewhere, is right in front of you.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
    A successful couple's lives spiral out of control after one of them is prescribed a drug to treat anxiety.
  • The Signal (2014)
    Review preview for The Signal

    The film gaily sets about asking a number of questions it has no intention of answering.

    Max Crawford · 3 out of 5
    Three college students disappear under mysterious circumstances while tracking a computer hacker through the Southwest.
  • Signature Move (2017)
    Review preview for Signature Move

    Notions of identity, duty to others and duty to the self intersect in this pleasingly nuanced tale.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    The story of a young woman navigating her life between a mother who doesn’t really know her daughter and a burgeoning relationship that offers the possibility of real happiness.
  • La Signora Di Tutti (1934)
    Review preview for La Signora Di Tutti

    The clever touches Ophuls brings to his later work barely feature.

    Nicola Osborne · 2.5 out of 5
    The story of a woman who has lived a scandalous life.
  • Silence (2012)
    Review preview for Silence

    Well worth the effort of tuning into its wavelength.

    Rebecca Naughten · 4 out of 5
    A sound recordist returns home to Ireland to record locations away from man-made sound, and in the process finds himself inexorably drawn into his own past.
  • The Silence Of Lorna (2008)
    Review preview for The Silence Of Lorna

    This is not at first glance a very engaging film, but it has a lot more going on beneath the surface.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A young immigrant in a sham marriage finds herself unexpectedly torn when the gangsters who arranged it want her junkie husband dead.
  • The Silence Of The Flies (2013)
    Review preview for The Silence Of The Flies

    The voices of the bereaved come through clearly in this sensitive film, whilst fragments of art and writing carry those of the deceased.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A documentary looking at the mysterious suicide epidemic in the Venezuelan Andes and meeting two women who have lost their daughters to it.
  • Silence. The Stigmatised (2001)
    Review preview for Silence. The Stigmatised

    This is a fine film, well acted and the ever-changing complex relationship between the characters is cleverly played out.

    Trinity · 3.5 out of 5
    What do you do when you meet someone who knows you better than yourself?
  • The Silent Army (2008)
    Review preview for The Silent Army

    Gets much closer than its predecessors to capturing African viewpoints.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A middle-class African restaurant owner finds his eyes opened to the horrors going on in his country after his son's friend is kidnapped by rebel soldiers.
  • Silent Grace (2001)
    Review preview for Silent Grace

    The performances are excellent, but this is a movie that could have used more dramatic scenes to put across the struggle and prove a point.

    Darren Amner · 3.5 out of 5
    PoW movie from a women's perspective, tracking dirty protests in the 1980s.
  • Silent Heart (2014)
    Review preview for Silent Heart

    The furniture of Bille August's latest drama is comfily familiar - what marks it out is the craftsmanship.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A family gather together to say goodbye to their matriarch who plans to take her own life.
  • Silent Hill (2006)
    Review preview for Silent Hill

    Finally, a horror movie worth bragging about.

    John Gallagher · 5 out of 5
    The singed secrets of a burnt town reveal a terrible haunting.
  • The Silent House (2010)
    Review preview for The Silent House

    A flawed but admirable attempt to bring the horror genre back to basics.

    David Graham · 3 out of 5
    A young woman considers whether to flee from a house which seems to harbour dangerous secrets.
  • Silent House (2011)
    Review preview for Silent House

    All suspense is lost when everything is dark, strange and unfamiliar.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 2 out of 5
    A trip to clear out a lake house turns into a nightmare for a young woman.
  • Silent Souls (2010)
    Review preview for Silent Souls

    Alexey Fedorchenko's elegiac and moving film marries melancholic longing with absurdism and presents its fiction in the cloak of facts.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Two friends travel across Russia hoping to bury the dead wife of one of them where she and her husband spent their honeymoon.
  • A Silent Voice (2016)
    Review preview for A Silent Voice

    Alternately, funny, engaging, witty and insightful, it cuts to the core of teenage cruelty.

    Jane Fae · 4 out of 5
    When a former bully is bullied himself, he grows up determined to make amends to the hearing impaired girl he used to pick on.
  • Silent Voices (2009)
    Review preview for Silent Voices

    Lea Fehner bites off more than she can chew.

    James Benefield · 2 out of 5
    A prison in Marseille forms the centrepiece of a series of interlocking stories.
  • Silent Youth (2012)
    Review preview for Silent Youth

    Silent Youth provides an immersive experience, so natural in style and tone that it makes the viewer feel like a voyeur.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Two young men adrift in Berlin experience a mutual attraction, but neither is sure how to respond to it.
  • Silk (2007)
    Review preview for Silk

    When it comes to Japanese slo-mo sensuality, there is nothing you can do but admire the photography, because arousal has been dulled to death long before.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    19th century travels in search of silk worms introduces the perfectly naked Japanese concubine.
  • Silver City (2004)
    Review preview for Silver City

    A monumental bore.

    The Exile · 2.5 out of 5
    Part murder mystery, part political rant, John Sayles goes looking for trouble in Colorado.
  • The Similars (2015)
    Review preview for The Similars

    Director Isaac Ezban brings a very distinctive look to the film, in more ways than one.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    There are strange goings-on in an isolated bus station.

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