San Francisco Chronicle's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
For 9,305 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:
9305 movie reviews
  1. Now that she's past 50, can we all stop holding Michelle Pfeiffer's looks against her and just admit that she's a great actress?
  2. The sum is difficult to watch. But this isn't a film against Islam or religion in general: A clear distinction is made between Allah's more vicious followers and the mercy of Allah himself.
  3. The most enjoyable way to watch Surveillance - "enjoyable," in the relative sense - is to take its awfulness for granted and pay attention to everything Bill Pullman does.
  4. A well-oiled, loudly revving summer action vehicle that does all that's required, and then some, within the confines of PG-13: It cracks genitalia jokes, messes around with toys and blows stuff up.
  5. The result is Allen's weakest film in years.
  6. The premise of The Proposal is one big cliche.
  7. Year One has one joke, but it's a good one, played for many variations over the course of an often very funny comedy.
  8. It's an entertaining, depressing and ultimately hopeful movie about the times we live in.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    We may not get to argue both sides of the debate, but Under Our Skin stirs the deepest emotions and reveals the most unsettling truth: We're all vulnerable to a tick bite, sure, but it's the health care system that really gets us in the end.
  9. Moon is boring. Agonizingly, deadeningly, coma-inducingly, they-could-bury-you-alive-accidentally boring.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A mind-boggling, heart-rending, stomach-churning expose on the food industry.
  10. Has all the usual virtues of a good action suspense drama, but it lacks that extra something - that context, that vital interchange - that made the original "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" such a memorable experience in 1974.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The plot turns distasteful and shrill before its tidy resolution at the close.
  11. Superb new documentary.
  12. A beautiful film.
  13. The movie is alive from beginning to end, and it's a pleasure to see at least one big-name director get out of the prison of his own reputation.
  14. The funniest movie so far this year.
  15. It's a movie about a scrubwoman who paints - so don't expect lots of sex scenes or car chases. Just expect a great performance by Moreau, who will convince you that she painted every one of those paintings - and lived them all before she painted them.
  16. One can almost feel the movie Away We Go might have been, if only we could believe that Verona loves Burt - or understand why Burt loves Verona.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The result is eight times as strange and exponentially more potty-mouthed than the original series.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    A cliché movie about love, orneriness and several maddening tourists.
  17. Ill conceived and unworthy (and dull and ridiculous).
  18. The director's most painfully slow movie yet.
  19. This easygoing movie fully captures the couple's charm and offers a unique look at the '60s and '70s New York art scene.
  20. A compelling documentary.
  21. Up
    Has some great movie moments but also boring stretches.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    If you can stomach the projectile-sputum gags and stapled-eyelid attack scene, it's hilarious.
  22. The film is far from perfect but has enough going on to compensate for its excessive length and some sentimentality.
  23. Succeeds by placing us in an interesting world with characters who are impossible not to root for.
  24. The smartest thing director Steven Soderbergh did in the making of The Girlfriend Experience was to cast Sasha Grey.

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