San Francisco Chronicle's Scores

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For 9,306 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 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: 100 Mansfield Park
Lowest review score: 0 Speed 2: Cruise Control
Score distribution:
9306 movie reviews
  1. The more an audience member sees the beauty left in the Buddhist leader’s wake, the more it becomes clear that his influence has the power to continue generations beyond his passing.
  2. It’s fascinating to return to this movie after many years. [2024 Restored Version]
  3. The Trip to Spain, perhaps isn’t quite up to the series’ opener (“The Trip,” 2010), it’s certainly a healthy cut above the second film (“The Trip to Italy,” 2014).
  4. Audiences will talk about how satisfying this movie is.
  5. Pure fun and worth seeing if you want to laugh.
  6. Deeply affecting, "Blade'' portrays an oddly elegant way of life that will soon be like the era in that other movie, "Gone With the Wind."
  7. Because of age and illness, Varda is losing her sight, and Faces Places, which she co-directed, could be her last film. If so, she’s going out on a high note.
  8. So here’s the case of a movie that is, in every way, nothing special — except for the way it’s made and how it’s done.
  9. He was so good at his job he was awarded an honorary knighthood by the British and the Iron Cross II by the Nazis. Talk about playing both sides!
  10. The time spent establishing Jane’s and Corinne’s bond pays off by always keeping their scenes on the heartfelt side of maudlin.
  11. A breezy account of a man whose obsession began early.
  12. In general the film is so impressive that we can't leave the theater without wanting more.
  13. Basically, The Gunman is a movie that asks audiences to sympathize with the equivalent of Lee Harvey Oswald — that is, an Oswald who definitely did it. Oddly enough, it succeeds, partly because the moral climate it presents seems so confused, but mainly because of Penn’s particular aura of irascible integrity. He’s the most irritated action hero since Harrison Ford.
  14. With this film, we see the Zinn who has changed thousands of lives with his work.
  15. The most compelling reason to see this movie is the profile we get of the horrors of war.
  16. 42
    A superior sports movie, dealing honestly with a great American story.
    • San Francisco Chronicle
  17. 200 Cigarettes doesn't have a bad scene or a false note. The picture is a succession of pointed little moments, nicely written by Shana Larsen and acted with comic assurance and sensitivity.
  18. Get Shorty is exquisitely cast, with droll, well-nuanced performances.
  19. Has a smart mix of things going for it, including a self-effacing sense of humor.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Klayman has already shown us Ai challenging the authorities on various fronts, most grippingly in a confrontation with the Chengdu police officer who had given him a potentially fatal head injury.
  20. Sex is a persistent theme in the movie, and it’s handled forthrightly.
  21. A film that's sad and poignant but not without humorous moments.
  22. Despite its outlandish conceits, it is grounded in sisterhood. As bloody as it is, the pain the girls dish out to each other is nothing compared to the trauma they’ve experienced.
  23. It’s not a movie that will make you tired, but lack of ambition can sometimes be a strength. This is a comedy-thriller made simply to please in the moment, and it does, for almost every minute of its 100-minute running time.
  24. It's that constant weirdness, coupled with Nicolas Cage's best performance in pretty much forever, that makes this depraved, sexually charged, over-the-top drama so much fun to watch.
  25. The Green Knight is a strange film — so out of step with current trends, so original in its conception, so willing to take its time and follow its own course — that it must be counted among the better films of 2021.
  26. “Stories of Surrender” makes no pretense of telling the full Bono story. But it picks its spots with artful precision and with keen cinematic instincts.
  27. CODA is lovely. If you want to see a movie that will make you feel good, this is it.
  28. The Lady is a portrait in moral and physical courage, a sort of analysis of what constitutes greatness.
  29. Sexy, peculiar and always entertaining.

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