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
411 movie reviews
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    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Ruthe Stein
    The Science of Sleep
    The title is all that's boring about director Michel Gondry's latest mind bender, as trippy as LSD.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Ruthe Stein
    Then She Found Me
    The new movie shrieks of motherhood - raising hot-button issues like biological clocks running down, the rights of birth mothers and whether to adopt or give artificial insemination a shot.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Ruthe Stein
    City of Men
    A compelling and visually arresting drama.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 75 Ruthe Stein
    The Shaggy Dog
    As good as family entertainment gets.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Ruthe Stein
    Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
    Much as she did in "Little Miss Sunshine," Breslin imbues Kit with joy.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Ruthe Stein
    The Secret Life of Bees
    Suffused with a golden glow, the movie looks and sounds like a fairy tale.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Ruthe Stein
    Wristcutters: A Love Story
    A quirky but surprisingly lighthearted dark comedy.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Ruthe Stein
    A Tale of Two Sisters
    Bloody good.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Ruthe Stein
    Cape of Good Hope
    A warmhearted film.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Ruthe Stein
    Before the Fall
    Like its singular central character, Before the Fall stands out from the pack.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 100 Ruthe Stein
    Quinceañera
    Glatzer and Westmoreland live in Echo Park, and they have given their film a remarkable sense of place.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Ruthe Stein
    You've Got Mail
    Boasts a collection of oddball characters, some more sharply written than others.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Ruthe Stein
    Happy Feet
    Don't little ones have enough to worry about without ecological concerns popping up in family entertainment? Happy Feet should have stayed light on its feet.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Ruthe Stein
    Run, Fatboy, Run
    Filled with moments that will make you smile.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Ruthe Stein
    Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
    A frothy comedy with the most adorable buddies since "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid."
    • 93 Metascore
    • 75 Ruthe Stein
    Masculine Feminine
    The film has aged gracefully.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Ruthe Stein
    Away from Her
    To say it is about a debilitating disease is as reductive as saying "Little Miss Sunshine" is about a beauty pageant. Both are intimate stories of family ties that bind but sometimes also choke.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 75 Ruthe Stein
    Chaos Theory
    By creating likable characters and putting them in situations that seem plausible, if a bit of a stretch, the film succeeds where others of its genre fail.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 75 Ruthe Stein
    Hoot
    Fun to watch although falling short of a real hoot, this latest in a barrage of family movies largely succeeds at keeping the kiddies entertained and their parents from nodding off.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Ruthe Stein
    Summer of '42
    Director Robert Mulligan exhibits the same sensitivity about young people and their foibles as he did in "To Kill a Mockingbird." In 1962. You never sense that he's making fun of Hermie or his pals. [08 Jul 2007, p.16]
    • San Francisco Chronicle
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Ruthe Stein
    Bolt
    It's doubtful that audiences go to animated features to hear movie stars talk. They go because a film sounds like fun and something their kids and maybe they themselves might enjoy. Bolt is all that and more.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Ruthe Stein
    Grey Gardens
    Watching the film is like being at a freak show: You feel like a voyeur, yet you can't take your eyes off this Mommie Dearest or her childlike middle-aged daughter.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Ruthe Stein
    Reconstruction
    The director has a natural's gift for storytelling and eye for casting.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Ruthe Stein
    They Were Expendable
    A solid WWII movie that's been lost among myriad others about the same war. [02 Jul 2006, p.28]
    • San Francisco Chronicle
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Ruthe Stein
    Disturbia
    Caruso, a very visual director, serves up some surprises and scares, and he's paced his movie briskly. You're out of this disturbing suburbia before you know it, shaken and even stirred.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Ruthe Stein
    Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
    The casting, at least, is magical. Plowright shows both her character's strength and her heartbreaking vulnerability, sometimes at once.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Ruthe Stein
    Night Watch: Nochnoi Dozor
    A wildly entertaining fantasy thriller that propels Russian cinema into the 21st century.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Ruthe Stein
    Mean Creek
    One of very few films to accurately portray the experience of growing up male.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 100 Ruthe Stein
    Intermission
    A breed apart from anything coming off the Hollywood assembly line or, for that matter, from the saccharine romances Britain has lately produced.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Ruthe Stein
    A Mighty Heart
    Heart-wrenching film.
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