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 1.7 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
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    Donnie Darko
    If this movie ever figured out what it wanted to be when it grows up, it would be a terrific one.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    Cure
    It's more psychological than a genre movie, and that is the source of both its greatest interest and its biggest problem.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    Kadosh
    Slowly unfolding but liberating film, which is also a rare look inside a circumscribed community.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 100 Bob Graham
    eXistenZ
    Leigh is perfectly cast as the game-pod goddess.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    Audition
    This movie can be recommended only to dyed-in-the-wool fans of the genre. Anyone who goes into one of Miike's films must be prepared to be put through the wringer.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Bob Graham
    Butterfly Tongues
    Has a saccharine quality but also offers a memorable performance by famed Spanish actor Fernando Fernan Gomez.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 100 Bob Graham
    There's Something About Mary
    In the person of Cameron Diaz, Mary is an island of sanity, good-natured humanity and genuine sweetness in an ocean of anarchy. Without her presence, There's Something About Mary would be merely sophomoric and tasteless.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    Eyes Wide Shut
    Totally absorbing even when it, too, strays.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    Divided We Fall
    Audiences will talk about how satisfying this movie is.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
    The lowdown on Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, Rob Schneider's first starring role, is that it is. Lowdown, that is.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    The Luzhin Defence
    When the film sticks with the eccentric comedy of a highborn woman attracted to a preoccupied genius, it works splendidly. When it strays into melodrama, it is as ill-equipped as Luzhin.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    Erleuchtung garantiert
    It is a warm, closely observed satire of lived life, and it is a charmer.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 100 Bob Graham
    Notting Hill
    It comes as a bonus that this romantic comedy is one of the rare pictures of its type that actually is about something -- the double-edged sword of celebrity.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 100 Bob Graham
    Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
    Jim Jarmusch has come up with something strange and amazing.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    Dead or Alive
    This is no-holds-barred filmmaking. Some viewers will find it disgusting. Others will call the director's bluff.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 100 Bob Graham
    Stir of Echoes
    Stir of Echoes is much more down and dirty (than "The Sixth Sense"), and the thrills are more visceral.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    Perfect Blue
    Perfect Blue manages, through animation, to take the thriller, media fascination, psychological insight and pop culture and stand them all on their heads.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Bob Graham
    An Affair of Love
    The audience, too, will be sorry to see this fleeting, beautifully made French film end.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
    If the dialect is hard to comprehend, that soon becomes part of the joke. It's unlikely that even the British audiences who made Lock, Stock a big hit got it all.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 100 Bob Graham
    Fight Club
    Delivers a sucker punch to the audience and then pulls the rug out from under it. It is sensational. It is also grimly funny.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 100 Bob Graham
    Me You Them
    Needs to be seen and savored.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 25 Bob Graham
    The Tailor of Panama
    Anyone expecting a flashy Bond-style fantasy is going to be disappointed.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 100 Bob Graham
    Mystery Men
    Maybe it's no mystery how they did it, considering the aggregate comic talent, but this bunch achieves peaks of sublime nuttiness.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    Absolutely the best single moment, beautifully presented, comes when the orphaned Harry looks in a mirror and sees his parents there. It is brilliant in its simplicity and very moving.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    Arlington Road
    Although it takes something of a slog to get there, this thriller finally comes through where it counts.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 0 Bob Graham
    The Cell
    Any way you slice it, it is still pointless.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    Ali
    Connects so often and so persuasively that its shortcomings -- the movie goes slack from time to time -- really don't amount to much.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    The Tic Code
    If it seems to have the ingredients of an after-school special, the performances take it to another level. Gut level.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    The Low Down
    If the movie sometimes seems not to come to much either, it does have something to say to those patient enough to stick with it.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    X-Men
    This feast of fantasy is worth it.
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