San Francisco Chronicle's Scores
- Movies
- TV
For 9,317 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: 5,172 out of 9317
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Mixed: 2,659 out of 9317
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Negative: 1,486 out of 9317
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Edward Guthmann
Ultimately, Regarding Henry has its heart in the right place, but is far too reluctant to share it with us. [10 July 1991, p.E1]- San Francisco Chronicle
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Walter Addiego
A mediocre college comedy that blends bits of "Revenge of the Nerds," "Mean Girls" and "Legally Blonde" and doesn't have much to show for it.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Walter Addiego
Requires us to repress any thoughts about stale material and keep Caine's heartfelt performance front and center.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Mick LaSalle
Has some laughs - more than a few thanks to Michael Douglas as a dead swinger (the movie's Jacob Marley) - and some moments of tenderness, too.- San Francisco Chronicle
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G. Allen Johnson
It’s colorful and imaginative, but other than Lu, the characters don’t have much depth. Emotional, that is, not oceanographic.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted May 10, 2018
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Mick LaSalle
Sabotage cannot be called a good movie, not with a straight face. But as an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, it has something.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Mar 27, 2014
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Mick LaSalle
Most of this huge-cast extravaganza is a botched farce. When that doesn't work, it turns sentimental. The presence of liked and familiar actors helps make it watchable, but there is no disguising that this is a weak, badly constructed comedy. At least it's short.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Bob Graham
There are times when watching this film is like a near-death experience.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Michael Ordoña
Die My Love is not plot-driven, with events that don’t necessarily follow one another in cause and effect. Rather, it’s a slow-burn psychological drama populated by imperfect people struggling with painful realities. Instead of a dramatic arc, it’s a dramatic decline.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Nov 3, 2025
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David Lewis
My Salinger Year, which is basically The Devil Wears Prada set in the literary world, is a film that feels like it’s ready to take off at any moment, but stalls every time it tries to do anything.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Mar 3, 2021
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Amy Biancolli
A tonally confused, fitfully entertaining film about a pathologically two-faced man.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Dec 6, 2010
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Mick LaSalle
No classic, but neither was the original starring Burt Reynolds. Instead, it's an odd mix of amusing nonsense and nastiness that chugs along, hit and miss, until the last section, which is the best part of the movie and its real reason for being: the game.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Peter Stack
It's not always clear what this film is driving at, but Shiota makes the weirdness visually arresting.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Bob Strauss
It’s a busy film, so it holds your attention that way. But it’s busy checking off all of the crooks and crooked cops cliches it can, leaving the project little time to experiment with much that’s new. Or worthwhile.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Nov 5, 2020
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Peter Hartlaub
The filmmaking is unremarkable, but the obsessiveness of the lead character is infectious enough to make this drama passable entertainment.- San Francisco Chronicle
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David Wiegand
The spectacular scenery and compelling message counterbalance the somewhat plodding pace and wooden performances.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Mick LaSalle
By the end, it reveals itself as too pat, too absurd and -- as a polemic against capital punishment -- philosophically self- defeating.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Ruthe Stein
A junior version of "Fight Club," only with no movie stars and different moves.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Mick LaSalle
It’s Miller, however, who gives the most affecting performance, in that we see the light fade from her eyes. What an awful thing this husband did to her — to praise her for courage and then use all her courage against her.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Apr 20, 2017
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Mick LaSalle
Feels like an extended skit stretched and stretched, maybe not to the breaking point, but to the sagging point.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Peter Hartlaub
The semiserious comedy by director Sven Pape is in its own category, and unfortunately it's not always an interesting one.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Walter Addiego
This is an unabashedly pro-democracy message movie. Judged strictly as drama, it's pretty routine.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Amy Biancolli
Despite bursts of hilarity and an A-list cast, this is a dark, difficult, weirdly existential film - like some seriocomic spin on "I and Thou."- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Jan 13, 2011
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