Ruthe Stein

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San Francisco Chronicle
For 411 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Ruthe Stein's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 The Visitor
Lowest review score: 0 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 244 out of 411
  2. Mixed: 111 out of 411
  3. Negative: 56 out of 411
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    • 55 Metascore
    • 25 Ruthe Stein
    Don't Come Knocking
    Pretentious drama.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 25 Ruthe Stein
    Gray Matters
    Every once in a while you catch glimpses of originality and see what Gray Matters might have been if it hadn't gone soft and safe.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 25 Ruthe Stein
    The Fountain
    The Fountain' never comes together. Like the time traveler at its center, it's all over the map.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 0 Ruthe Stein
    Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector
    This so-called comedy is so not funny, it makes "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo" look like Chaplin.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 25 Ruthe Stein
    Hush
    Lange seems at a loss to know how to convey Martha's malevolence -- and writer-director Jonathan Darby offers almost no guidance.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 25 Ruthe Stein
    Good Dick
    It is crystal clear who screwed up this tortuously slow-moving romantic drama.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 25 Ruthe Stein
    Southland Tales
    A mess, and that's really a shame.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 25 Ruthe Stein
    Ask the Dust
    The film is a particular disappointment considering its pedigree.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 25 Ruthe Stein
    Sleepwalking
    A slow-moving family drama guaranteed to induce a nap if not somnambulism.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 25 Ruthe Stein
    Basic Instinct 2
    The sequel is one big tease.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 25 Ruthe Stein
    Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
    The movie [Sugarman] made gives little indication that she understands teen girls, dramatic or plain. Much of Confessions seems clueless and -- even worse for moviegoers of any age -- listless.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 25 Ruthe Stein
    All the King's Men
    Recalling the earthiness Broderick Crawford brought to the original, I couldn't help thinking Gandolfini should have been cast as Willie.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 25 Ruthe Stein
    What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?
    The biggest puzzlement about "What'' is what it's doing in major movie theaters around the country when it so clearly belongs on one of those small cable channels given to peculiar programming.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 25 Ruthe Stein
    Shoot 'Em Up
    Shoot 'Em Up is not only the title of Hollywood's latest descent into nonsensical mayhem but pretty much sums up the entire inane plot as well.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 25 Ruthe Stein
    Twentynine Palms
    Muddled, to put it kindly.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 25 Ruthe Stein
    Nobel Son
    A dreary little thriller that irritates more than it thrills.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 25 Ruthe Stein
    Derailed
    Poor casting is compounded by a ludicrous script.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 25 Ruthe Stein
    Hell Ride
    A pile of junk.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 25 Ruthe Stein
    The United States of Leland
    As bad as its title.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 25 Ruthe Stein
    Unaccompanied Minors
    A half-baked script by Jacob Meszaros and Mya Stark admittedly gives Feig little to work with. But his young cast is capable of a lot more than is required of them in this so-called comedy.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 25 Ruthe Stein
    Two Weeks
    Although well intentioned, has the superficial gloss of a TV movie of the week.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 25 Ruthe Stein
    Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
    It's as if a trumped-up biopic of Andy Warhol were to appear titled "Soup.''
    • 27 Metascore
    • 0 Ruthe Stein
    Wild Hogs
    Hogwash and not even funny hogwash.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 25 Ruthe Stein
    The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D
    Sharkboy relies almost entirely on 3-D for its kicks. The novelty, however, quickly wears thin with the thinnest of stories to project.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 25 Ruthe Stein
    Yours, Mine and Ours
    A turkey.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 25 Ruthe Stein
    The Quiet
    The desperation TV stars must feel to be on the big screen is the only explanation for Edie Falco and Elisha Cuthbert's appearance in The Quiet, a creepy family drama that reeks of pretentiousness.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 25 Ruthe Stein
    Diggers
    Sitting through Diggers is so tedious that you might find yourself envying the clam diggers. At least they get to be outdoors.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 25 Ruthe Stein
    Seraphim Falls
    A Western short on dialogue and long on pomposity, is little more than an extended chase scene down a snow-filled mountaintop to a desert floor.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Ruthe Stein
    The Reaping
    Although The Reaping' borrows elements from classics of the genre -- rips them off might be more accurate -- it fails to build the psychological tension that made them so creepily good.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 0 Ruthe Stein
    8 Heads in a Duffel Bag
    Exactly what the title implies: mindless.
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