San Francisco Chronicle's Scores
- Movies
- TV
For 9,305 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 2.1 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: 5,161 out of 9305
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Mixed: 2,658 out of 9305
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Negative: 1,486 out of 9305
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Ruthe Stein
This is a movie of excesses that doesn't know when to settle down. It aims to be a slapstick comedy, a romantic comedy and a plain old romance but falls short of each goal.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Michael Ordoña
The Unholy Trinity is a passable, 95-minute diversion, but an unremarkable one.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Jun 11, 2025
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Peter Hartlaub
A well-intentioned horror film that is weighted down by stellar cast members who for the most part act as if they don't want to be there.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Peter Hartlaub
Every moviegoer will have his own breaking point, when The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones surpasses the mundane and enters the ridiculous.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Aug 20, 2013
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Mick LaSalle
Think of The Bubble as part of a pattern we could have anticipated. Pandemic movies almost can’t be any good at this point. The pandemic won’t be funny, interesting or anything anybody wants to think about until we’re safely beyond it by a few years. So, filmmakers, set your watches for pandemic nostalgia to commence circa 2027, and between now and then, just put it out of your minds.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Mar 31, 2022
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Mick LaSalle
The movie isn't hellish, because there's always hope of leaving it. It's more like purgatory, two whole hours of it.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Peter Hartlaub
Some people clearly had a good time making this film. Whether you have a good time watching it depends almost entirely on your Pony love walking in.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Oct 5, 2017
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Peter Hartlaub
Who wants to spend a minute on the Strip with the chance that there might be people as annoying as the characters played by Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher walking around?- San Francisco Chronicle
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Mick LaSalle
Moon is boring. Agonizingly, deadeningly, coma-inducingly, they-could-bury-you-alive-accidentally boring.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Mick LaSalle
Only Lovers Left Alive is simply dead, an exercise in style, bland humor and vague gesture that yet seems to have been made in the naive expectation of a conventional response - that is, of an audience's actually caring.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Apr 18, 2014
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Peter Stack
Bordello of Blood easily could have been called "Bore- dello of Blood." This gory vampire spoof is remarkably free of jolts, hardly registering as a fright film, with a series of weak special effects involving many globs of guts...The big themes in this lackluster second feature under the "Tales From the Crypt" banner are sex and religion. Both are presented with painfully sophomoric irreverence.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Mick LaSalle
If For Greater Glory were a person, it would be wearing two different socks. It is a scattered mess, as earnest as a folk song, but like a folk song that goes on for two hours and 23 minutes. Not only does it never justify its epic length, it gets even the small things wrong.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted May 31, 2012
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Mick LaSalle
Bezucha made something perverse, a feel-bad holiday film about a repellent family, with a milquetoast dad and a smug, devious harpy of a mom.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Mick LaSalle
This is bad, borderline garbage, but disturbing, too, in that it’s just the kind of fake-clever awfulness that might be cinema’s future.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Feb 11, 2016
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Mick LaSalle
This remake of the 1981 horror classic starts well, but it soon degenerates into tiresome shock gore that overstays its welcome, despite the film's modest run time. Jane Levy as a heroin addict going through withdrawal is the one bright spot.- San Francisco Chronicle
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G. Allen Johnson
It’s not a cookie cutter superhero film or predictable horror film. That’s the good news. The bad news is that it’s form without enough content.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Oct 21, 2025
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Amy Biancolli
Spiffy-looking, well-intentioned but ultimately witless film.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Sep 15, 2011
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Mick LaSalle
The audience has already checked out, long before the formulaic finish.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Walter Addiego
Heavy-handed dialogue, flurries of melodrama and a silly ending make the whole enterprise sink like a stone.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Mar 1, 2013
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Carla Meyer
The sequel might have the formula down, but it lacks everything that made "Anaconda'' fun.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Britney Vs Spears often feels just as exploitative as the case it portrays.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Sep 28, 2021
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Peter Stack
The least they could have done with the sequel Candyman : Farewell to the Flesh is make it scary. How they managed to give us a killer with a bloody hook going around eviscerating people and have him come off as mild as a butterfly is boggling.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Peter Hartlaub
At times, "European Gigolo" feels more like an international incident than a movie.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Peter Hartlaub
The movie is overly long and much too intense for small children, yet it's filled with dialogue and plot turns that are too juvenile to thrill adult audiences.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Mick LaSalle
So, The King’s Man is a mess, purposeless, pointless, witless. However, it’s not obnoxious. At times, it can even be close to enjoyable watching it squirm and try to make sense of itself. It has a genial idiocy and one genuinely effective sequence, involving mountain climbing. So, to its credit, it’s never actively annoying. It’s just, from start to finish, a disappointment.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Dec 20, 2021
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Mick LaSalle
But throwing fairy dust in our eyes can’t make us think we’ve entered Fairy Land. It just takes a lowdown tale and inflates it until it bursts.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Oct 4, 2019
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