San Francisco Chronicle's Scores
- Movies
- TV
For 9,306 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: 5,162 out of 9306
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Mixed: 2,658 out of 9306
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Negative: 1,486 out of 9306
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Amy Biancolli
A first-class genre entry stacked with dandy performances and some crackerjack action to boot.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Walter Addiego
It's a life worth remembering.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Jul 25, 2013
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Mick LaSalle
The chief asset of Ain't Them Bodies Saints is Rooney Mara, who gets more interesting with every movie.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Aug 22, 2013
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Mick LaSalle
There is history as it's remembered, and then there's history as it happened. This documentary gives us the latter, and it's a true education.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Oct 24, 2013
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Mick LaSalle
In Darkness is an extraordinary movie, and somehow good art creates its own uplift.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Feb 23, 2012
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Mick LaSalle
Don't be fooled by the casual style. There is nothing casual about these emotions, or about the talent of these two filmmakers.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Edward Guthmann
Downbeat, ultimately tragic, but there's a wondrous, sad beauty here.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Mick LaSalle
Re-creates that chilling sense that comes when, in the middle of a pleasant conversation, one realizes the other person is off his rocker.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Mick LaSalle
At 80 minutes, this might have been a delight. At more than two hours, it's so much of a good thing that it starts to become a bad thing.- San Francisco Chronicle
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G. Allen Johnson
A must-see documentary about not just a would-be assassin and moment in American history, but a snapshot of the Bay Area during turbulent times.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Dec 16, 2025
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David Lewis
At the end of the day, though, thanks to the moral complications expressed by the abortion doctors and patients, this movie gives us more than enough room to help weigh these issues on our own terms.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Oct 17, 2013
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Walter Addiego
Though the material might lend itself to heavy-handedness, director Ole Christian Madsen is steady, and he gets fine performances from the two leads and Stengade.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Peter Hartlaub
In the end, Sully is a broadly crowd-pleasing movie, at a time when we could use the straight-forward entertainment.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Sep 8, 2016
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Amy Biancolli
Herzog, as ever, is obsessed most of all with human nature: Into the Abyss explores our deepest urges to love, and live, and kill.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Nov 10, 2011
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Michael Ordoña
Despite its many virtues, Interstellar feels as if it doesn’t quite hit the target.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Nov 4, 2014
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Peter Hartlaub
Bridge to Terabithia is a good movie, but it could become truly great with a director's cut that leaves the fantastic elements a little more vague.- San Francisco Chronicle
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There's nothing new here about the conflict, but the film portrays the two sides fairly - both right, both wrong. Overall, The Attack is thought-provoking, even if it doesn't address how to solve the problem. We'll probably never know the answer in our lifetime.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Aug 8, 2013
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Peter Hartlaub
The end result is an interesting documentary that is as unpolished and gutsy as the championship-caliber high school hoop stars at the other end of his camera.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Bob Graham
A quirky character study of the four-man team, led by Sam Neill as the crew leader who seems surrounded by an aura of sadness but is so dedicated that he's not above lying to Houston to buy time when something goes wrong.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Mick LaSalle
(Washington) raises it to the level of importance with an acting job that's one unbroken chain of intense emotion.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Bob Graham
People who see it may feel like dancing out of the theater afterward. Go for it.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Peter Hartlaub
It's clear by the end that one Ruth Gruber is worth more than 100 pundits fighting about partisan politics.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Dec 7, 2010
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Walter Addiego
What stays with the viewer is a sense of a man unraveling from his own mistakes and weaknesses.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Feb 24, 2011
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David Lewis
Breezily bounces back and forth from Baja to Los Angeles, and it’s a pleasant diversion, on both sides of the border.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Feb 16, 2017
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Peter Hartlaub
Byrne is the furthest thing from being a manipulative filmmaker. But Raising Bertie is moving nonetheless.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Jun 21, 2017
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Mick LaSalle
Joy Ride feels like it easily could have been better, but it’s certainly good enough, and it might be remembered as an early milestone in some significant careers.- San Francisco Chronicle
- Posted Jul 6, 2023
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Mick LaSalle
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that this is probably the best movie so far this year about a kung-fu fighting panda.- San Francisco Chronicle
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