San Francisco Chronicle's Scores
- Movies
- TV
For 9,303 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: 5,160 out of 9303
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Mixed: 2,657 out of 9303
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Negative: 1,486 out of 9303
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Mick LaSalle
That the movie becomes silly isn't necessarily a problem, but it also becomes tiresome, degenerating into a series of martial arts interludes -- everyone unaccountably leaves his guns at home.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Carla Meyer
A truly awful mix of bad direction, nonsensical story line and dialogue that appears to have been made up on the spot.- San Francisco Chronicle
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- Posted Feb 25, 2016
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Mick LaSalle
Directed by Danny Boyle, it lacks even a single moment of charm or interest.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Michael Ordoña
Insidious: Chapter 3 is simply not scary. Not a bit, not a whit. Except that the audience will be terrified of the next stabbing of their eardrums, at generally predictable intervals.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Jun 4, 2015
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Mick LaSalle
There's nothing here but wreckage. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is so ineptly made that the story is advanced solely through announcements.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Dec 15, 2011
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Edward Guthmann
Nasty to women, cruel to old people and tosses in a cardboard gay couple for gratuitous laughs. It's also got one of those annoying soundtracks that lays rock music right over the dialogue -- as if it wanted to distract us from it.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Mick LaSalle
It's a dishonest satire that manages to be (disingenuously) contemptuous of white people and (unintentionally) condescending toward black people, without ever being funny.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Unreconstructed fans of Chevy Chas, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight or Bill Murray might find something to guffaw at in this lamebrained movie that purports to be a satire on country club life but makes everybody look like slobs. Except - perhaps - a little Irish wench named Sarah Holcomb and the gopher who tears up the golf course. Should have put the gopher to work on the script.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Wesley Morris
The movie can barely muster the bravery to be even "Dude, Where's My Car" stoopid.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Peter Hartlaub
You'll feel so much better just sending your $9.50 to the Red Cross then catching "I Know What You Did Last Summer" one more time on television.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Peter Hartlaub
This movie is so horrible that it actually spends some time in "so bad it's good" territory, before getting significantly worse.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Mick LaSalle
In UHF we get 90 minutes of Al Yankovic, and that's 85 minutes too much. The problem isn't that he's weird, but that he isn't weird at all. The premises for his gags are commonplace and predictable, and his follow-throughs lack imagination. He seems incapable of spinning more than one tired joke from each set-up. [21 Jul 1989, p.E1]- San Francisco Chronicle
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Peter Hartlaub
So mind-blowingly horrible that it teeters on the edge of cinematic immortality.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Edward Guthmann
It's impossible to imagine why Lions Gate, the indie distributor that released "Monster's Ball," would bother with this garbage.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Mick LaSalle
The equivalent of a full-course meal with no calories. It is a mirage of a movie, 100 minutes of nothing.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Bob Graham
Voyeuristically wallows in the sadistic violence it professes to deplore. What hypocrisy!- San Francisco Chronicle
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Mick LaSalle
Aside from being vile and repellent, it's mainly dull - old-fashioned in its shock tactics and culminating in a ho-hum climax.- San Francisco Chronicle
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- Posted Jul 5, 2012
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G. Allen Johnson
Perhaps it helps to think of Goat as a horror movie. There is a genre of horror film known as torture porn — films that revel in graphic depictions of torture, violence and sadism, mostly to defenseless victims. Think of Goat as hazing porn.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Sep 22, 2016
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Mick LaSalle
The most thoroughly joyless and inept film of the year, and one of the worst of the decade. We're talking about a disaster, and not of the fun "Showgirls" variety, either.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Mick LaSalle
It's a completely botched effort -- botched in its direction, its writing and editing.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Mick LaSalle
A cynically made, painfully long comedy without a single laugh. It's a film to really make you wonder about Damon Wayans ' abilities as a comic actor.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Mick LaSalle
The script is weak and unrelenting. The stunts are unspectacular. The special effects are nothing you haven't seen before. But worst of all, there's the spectacle of Schwarzenegger glorying in the wonder of Schwarzenegger. [18 Jun 1993, p.C1]- San Francisco Chronicle
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