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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    • 49 Metascore
    • 100 Bob Graham
    The Mummy
    Digs up both laughs and chills from timeworn material.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    Meet the Parents
    It's a kind of "sex, lies and videotape'' in suburbia.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 25 Bob Graham
    The Beyond
    The thriller is populated by the usual dimwits who stumble into horrific situations and don't have the good sense to leave, and it tries to pass off some of the sorriest excuses for zombies ever seen.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    The Family Man
    Cage gives a performance that invites audiences to lay cynicism aside in a romantic fable.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    Zoolander
    It's probably pointless to complain when a movie sets out to be stupid and actually is. (And the people who came up with a couple of these ideas think male models are dumb.)
    • 34 Metascore
    • 0 Bob Graham
    Red Planet
    There still is no life on Mars. Red Planet is airless.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    The Big Kahuna
    The dialogue is loaded with depth charges that take a while to explode beneath the surface.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    Cube
    Cube falls into the dreaded trap of allegory -- aaaaaargh! -- and the clunky dialogue makes a midnight bull session seem brilliant by comparison.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    What Planet Are You From?
    It's good for a few guffaws and chuckles, but in between the screen has a tendency to stretch at the corners and go flat.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    The Contender
    Thoroughly engrossing.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Bob Graham
    Harry Is Here to Help
    A steady undertow of sex gives this French thriller a scintillating surface.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Bob Graham
    The Color of Paradise
    This is a transcendent film, deeply committed and beautifully wrought. It will make anyone who sees it look at the world with new eyes.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Bob Graham
    Butterfly Tongues
    Has a saccharine quality but also offers a memorable performance by famed Spanish actor Fernando Fernan Gomez.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    Timecode
    Story pitches are made. Coke is snorted. There is lesbian sex. Fellatio. An earthquake. A murder. Just another day in Hollywood.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 25 Bob Graham
    Don't Say a Word
    Don't even try to make any sense of this --none of it elicits a moment of genuine concern.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 25 Bob Graham
    Swordfish
    This lurid thriller comes to life in fits and starts, and then sinks into the bog of its own cleverness once again.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    What Women Want
    The movie's gimmick for airing the contents of a woman's head is not unlike that used for the dogs and tots in those "Look Who's Talking" movies.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    Baby Boy
    It would have been enough that Singleton raise these difficult questions without trying to wrap them up, too, in the last five minutes.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    The Pledge
    Sets off depth charges of the psyche.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
    A comedy of interracial wariness and misunderstanding marked by a refreshing lack of sappiness.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    Cats & Dogs
    It is never less than interesting. But who wants interesting from a movie called Cats & Dogs? It needs to grab the audience by the scruff of the neck and shake it.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    Inspector Gadget
    While it is a spectacle of animatronics, digital graphics and other special effects, the actors are never overwhelmed by them as personalities.
    • 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.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    Calle 54
    It is a spellbinding hour and 45 minutes of pure music, Latin jazz to be specific.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    Serendipity
    Serendipity is a throwback to a more innocent era in American life, 25 days ago.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    Duets
    Appealing, and ultimately moving.
    • 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.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    The Monkey's Mask
    Poetry, lesbian sex and murder might be a killer combination if a deadly pace weren't included in the mix.
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