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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    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    The Faculty
    Sly and very savvy.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    Holy Smoke
    If this is an example of Australian live-and-let- live, it is very likable.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    Vertical Limit
    The film is well shot and has titillating action without a single persuasive emotion.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    From Hell
    Mystery skillfully evokes Victorian London's dark depths.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    Life as a House
    Kline, in particular, has the spark and know-how to overcome some awfully belabored writing and situations.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    The Mexican
    Thank God for James Gandolfini.
    • 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.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 25 Bob Graham
    Dirty Work
    Dirty Work was directed by Bob Saget, who always seemed slightly embarrassed by his enormous success as the host of America's Funniest Home Videos. Now he's got something else to be slightly embarrassed about.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 25 Bob Graham
    Get Carter
    This noir mystery is murkier than it needs to be, through no fault of Stallone's.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    Happy Accidents
    The actors have enough appeal to keep it moving over the speed bumps.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Bob Graham
    Enter the Dragon
    Enter the Dragon goes far beyond the philosophical, of course. Its best sequences, and the only real reason for seeing it again, involve Lee's phenomenal physical and emotional presence.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 25 Bob Graham
    Knock Off
    The ridiculous complications might have worked if there had been an awareness of how absurd they are.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    The Whole Nine Yards
    For quite of few of The Whole Nine Yards, it appears that the most clever thing in the movie is going to be the opening credits, monstrous close-ups of the morning toothbrushing routine.
    • 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
    • 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.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    Pay It Forward
    Has all the elements of a satisfying movie except knowing when to stop.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    The 13th Warrior
    It falls short where it counts: In the final confrontation.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    Shanghai Noon
    This is almost Mel Brooks territory: The frontiersmen think the Chinese are Jews, while the white settlers think it's the Crow Indians who are. Whoosh!
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Bob Graham
    Sugar & Spice
    It means to be knowing and cynical but is just callow.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    Cecil B. DeMented
    It's an audacious little comedy with bursts of hilarity and a certain giddy energy.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    Les amants criminels
    Straddles a number of genres -- horror film, lovers on the lam, fairy tale -- and gives them all a cool, knowing spin.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    Est - Ouest
    It is well-made in an old-fashioned way, and its straight-arrow lack of cynicism may be old- fashioned as well.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Bob Graham
    Gods and Monsters
    An actors' feast.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 25 Bob Graham
    The Crew
    Seems it's never going to reach liftoff.
    • 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.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    Big Momma's House
    When all's said and done, it turns out to be quite sweet-natured. OK. I laughed. So sue me.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 25 Bob Graham
    Proof of Life
    A hostage drama that oscillates between soap opera and action flick.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    Wild Wild West
    A sly variation on the buddy movie.
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