San Francisco Chronicle's Scores
- Movies
- TV
For 9,316 reviews, this publication has graded:
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52% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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46% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
| Highest review score: | Mansfield Park | |
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| Lowest review score: | Speed 2: Cruise Control |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 5,171 out of 9316
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Mixed: 2,659 out of 9316
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Negative: 1,486 out of 9316
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Walter Addiego
An old-fashioned prisoner-of-war movie that becomes much more because of writer-director Werner Herzog's admiration for the remarkable true story of its protagonist, Dieter Dengler.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Mick LaSalle
There's bad, there's awful and there's horrible, and then somewhere beyond that, in its own Kingdom of Lousy -- where all the milk curdles and the jokes aren't funny -- is License to Wed, the latest ghastly exercise starring Robin Williams.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Mick LaSalle
The constant shifting between today and years ago is, in and of itself, powerful.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Ruthe Stein
Vitus is likable enough and definitely suitable entertainment for young people willing to read subtitles.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Mick LaSalle
Either Live Free or Die Hard will go down as the summer's best action blockbuster, or it's going to be one exceptional summer.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Mick LaSalle
This is the old stuff, the good stuff, the tried-and-true stuff of shrewdly accomplished audience manipulation.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Peter Hartlaub
Never very frightening, but it's clever and fun, with a memorable amount of humor and gore.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Ruthe Stein
Broken English doesn't break any code or offer original insights on the subject. But there's a spark whenever Posey and Poupaud are together.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Ruthe Stein
As the title character in Lady Chatterley, Marina Hands does the most persuasive job of feigning sexual pleasure since Jane Fonda in "Coming Home."- San Francisco Chronicle
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Mick LaSalle
You Kill Me is pretty light, but it's well made, and within the built-in limitations of its story -- a hit man goes to Alcoholics Anonymous -- it's fairly pleasing.- San Francisco Chronicle
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A good bio of any historical character has to have a compelling story, whether evil or good. Klimt appears to have had that story. I sure would have liked to know what it was.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Leaves its audience with many troubling questions. Among them: Should a film console us with its own brilliance when it aims to discomfit us with its content?- San Francisco Chronicle
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Mick LaSalle
One of the most enjoyable pictures of the season.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Ruthe Stein
The mystery of Nancy Drew' is how a movie can get so many things right -- particularly the inspired casting of Emma Roberts as the spunky teenage sleuth -- yet ultimately disappoint.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Ruthe Stein
Sounds great and if nothing else should help diminish the stereotype, blasted by the film's subjects, of Gypsies as little more than pickpockets whom travelers need to be wary of.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Ruthe Stein
Visually, the film is a stunner, dotted with psychedelic colors and many shades of red -- one battle is fought with red laser-gun sights -- some looking realistically like blood. When gangsters open fire, their falls are choreographed like a ballet. The problem comes when the cast opens its mouth and Elizabethan dialogue tumbles out.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Mick LaSalle
A satisfying story of a grand-scale swindle, but it also retains the impishness and charm of "Ocean's Twelve." Even better, it solves the Roberts problem in the most thorough and economical way possible: She's not in the movie.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Peter Hartlaub
The entertaining new film from Sony Pictures Animation is a nice surprise, and the rare mainstream American kid film.- San Francisco Chronicle
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It's a movie that seems simple, yet its subtle and brilliant complexity is not to be denied.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Mick LaSalle
Knocked Up has some rough edges, but it's a noteworthy film by a significant and blossoming talent.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Peter Hartlaub
Sporadic on-field violence is only a tiny reason that Gracie disappoints, but it's indicative of the film's greater problem. Producers Elisabeth and Andrew Shue seem so intent on creating a hero out of the main character and villains out of almost everyone else, that they've completely distorted reality.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Mick LaSalle
The appeal of Mr. Brooks is as obvious as it is hard to resist: Kevin Costner as a serial killer.- San Francisco Chronicle
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