Bob Graham

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San Francisco Chronicle
For 234 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 35% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Bob Graham's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 The Corruptor
Lowest review score: 0 The Cell
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 127 out of 234
  2. Mixed: 71 out of 234
  3. Negative: 36 out of 234
234 movie reviews
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    High Art
    It is wonderful to see how Sheedy gives shape to this performance -- her eyes, a photographer's eyes, carefully sizing everything up. [18 June 1998, Daily Notebook, p.E1]
    • San Francisco Chronicle
    • 76 Metascore
    • 100 Bob Graham
    The Talented Mr. Ripley
    This thriller is so expertly -- and perversely -- poised that audience members may find themselves secretly rooting for the duplicitous Ripley.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    Jing Ke ci Qin Wang
    The look of the film is first class, with muted colors but deep textures, the opposite of historical kitsch.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    The Cider House Rules
    Has that Dickensian spirit wherein simple acts of kindness can bring an audience close to tears.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    Croupier
    A very smart noir about gambling, smartly directed by Mike Hodges -- until almost the very end. It craps out in the decisive London casino heist scene.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Bob Graham
    Harry Is Here to Help
    A steady undertow of sex gives this French thriller a scintillating surface.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Bob Graham
    Black Hawk Down
    It is an exceptional accomplishment.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    The Life of Jesus
    It is described as about a guy who came back to life, and clearly one of Dumont's aims in The Life of Jesus is to express a spirit of charity for flawed humanity amid the rhythms of ordinary life.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    What's Cooking?
    A big-hearted celebration of the we're-all-in-this- together American way.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Bob Graham
    Gods and Monsters
    An actors' feast.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    The Dish
    A quirky character study of the four-man team, led by Sam Neill as the crew leader who seems surrounded by an aura of sadness but is so dedicated that he's not above lying to Houston to buy time when something goes wrong.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Bob Graham
    Billy Elliot
    People who see it may feel like dancing out of the theater afterward. Go for it.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    Water Drops on Burning Rocks
    This nasty, provocative comedy comes from a play by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Bob Graham
    The Man Who Wasn't There
    The Coens' plotting, with its suspense and reversals, is a source of amazement and delight.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    Meet the Parents
    It's a kind of "sex, lies and videotape'' in suburbia.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Bob Graham
    Space Cowboys
    Best movie of the summer.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    The Faculty
    Sly and very savvy.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    Slam
    Slam, directed by Marc Levin, is schematic but effective as it makes its points about African Americans caught in the Washington, D.C., criminal justice system. It's got a wonderful eye and, for a film, ear.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    Love & Basketball
    Love and basketball -- if you like either one, here is a movie for you.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Bob Graham
    Bowfinger
    A venemous Valentine to Hollywood sugarcoated with laughs.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 100 Bob Graham
    The Trials of Henry Kissinger
    Haunting music, the seriousness of the allegations and riveting interviews with Alexander Haig, Christopher Hitchens (whose book inspired the film) and others give "Kissinger" extra drama and urgency.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    The Thomas Crown Affair
    What The Thomas Crown Affair has to sell audiences is a fantasy of the life of the super-rich who jet off to Martinique on the spur of the moment, and the super-smart who operate outside the rules.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    Passion of Mind
    At its most interesting, and a bit frightening, when Moore starts to get a little loony. Too bad they didn't follow through and make this more of a psychological thriller than a melodrama.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    Pi
    It proceeds, weirdly enough, from the truly annoying to the absolutely fascinating.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 100 Bob Graham
    Bringing Out the Dead
    Potentially oppressive subject matter is redeemed by impeccable moral integrity and stunning artistry.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 100 Bob Graham
    The Closet
    Neither a "gay" movie nor a straight one; it is simply a funny one.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    The Pledge
    Sets off depth charges of the psyche.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    The Score
    This is a solid suspense thriller that's fun. These stars have put it together in a spirit of playfulness -- as in playacting.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 100 Bob Graham
    Requiem for a Dream
    He (Aronofsky) has put together a phantasmagoria of self-destructive obsession that is so visually astounding it becomes its own saving grace. Otherwise, we might not be able to bear it.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    Training Day
    It is so propulsive so much of the time, it almost looks as if it's going to go the distance. If Washington & Co. don't quite manage to bring it home, the getting there sure is something.
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