San Francisco Chronicle's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Select another publication »
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:
  1. Positive: 5,162 out of 9306
  2. Mixed: 2,658 out of 9306
  3. Negative: 1,486 out of 9306
9306 movie reviews
view
per page
  1. Journey to the Center of the Earth
    A legit action movie.
  2. Meet Dave
    Isn't likely to win Murphy another Oscar nomination, but it allows him to do what he does best - loads of physical comedy.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A Man Named Pearl
    A pleasant but mild-mannered experience.
  4. Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
    With a subject like Roman Polanski, you don't really need to do much to capture audience interest. But maybe that's the reason Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired doesn't live up to its promise.
  5. Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
    The film is thorough and entertaining. It's enthusiastic about his contributions, but it's no hagiography, and it serves as both a celebration and a cautionary tale.
  6. Kabluey
    Eventually comes into its own as a wacky commentary on the state of America in the fifth year of the Iraq war.
  7. The Wackness
    When it's good, it's good, and when it fails, it's still clear what Levine was trying to do.
    • San Francisco Chronicle
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Tell No One
    It just does everything really well: perfect pacing, lovely camera work, spot-on acting and an ingenious plot.
  9. Hancock
    More intelligent than most summer blockbusters and features at its center a thought-out and committed performance by Will Smith. But in the end it's merely ALMOST good.
  10. Finding Amanda
    Finding Amanda is a minor movie for Broderick, but considering where it takes him, it's understandable why he took the role.
  11. WALL-E
    In the moment, it's intermittently transcendent, heartrending and beautiful ... and busy, repetitious and boring.
  12. Wanted
    Either a go-for-broke action movie or a sick, sick movie for a sick, sick public.
  13. Trumbo
    Trumbo is welcome just to bear witness to the severe consequences meted out to one man who dared to do the right thing.
  14. Elsa y Fred
    Worth seeing just to admire how Argentine writer-director Marcos Carnevale avoids so much as a whiff of condescension.
  15. The Last Mistress
    Breillat is inviting us to really look at sex as it occurs in life, and to engage with it mentally, as a driving mystery of human existence.
  16. Full Grown Men
    A poignant, quirky and effective alternative to the usual soulless, computer-generated summer fare.
  17. Get Smart
    Remaking Get Smart for the big screen might have sounded like a bad idea, but the movie shows it to have been something else: a REALLY bad idea.
  18. The Love Guru
    A disappointment, but it's not a disaster, and that's at least something.
  19. Brick Lane
    Has beautiful scenery and some enjoyable moments but leaves the viewer feeling the need to find the book to get the rest of the story.
  20. Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
    Much as she did in "Little Miss Sunshine," Breslin imbues Kit with joy.
  21. Medicine for Melancholy
    Under the subdued, dignified surface, this movie - about the 24 hours after a one-night stand - churns with a filmmaker's fascination and wonder, sadness and longing.
  22. The Happening
    It's an entertaining movie, which is half the game, but it's not scary, which it should be. Neither is it something to be taken seriously, though it's intended to be.
  23. The Incredible Hulk
    Embraces its identity as a sci-fi-summer-action-blockbuster extravaganza. Along the way, it actually comes close to finding the balance that Lee was looking for.
  24. Chris & Don. A Love Story
    This is the portrait of a marriage as full and enviable as the greatest unions in literature.
  25. My Winnipeg
    The best way to take this film is with a box of popcorn and a grain of salt.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Quid Pro Quo
    Quid Pro Quo, billed as a "neo-noir" about a paraplegic journalist drawn into a shadowy world of disability fetishists, is choked by allegory and pretension. It's an O. Henry tale gone wrong.
  27. To the Limit
    We're compelled to admire these athletes because, despite their obvious skill, they are in constant danger.
  28. Encounters at the End of the World
    An enjoyable example of this extraordinary director's documentary work.
  29. Kung Fu Panda
    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.
  30. You Don't Mess with the Zohan
    Serious intent may be lurking somewhere in there, but it's buried under layers of stupidity - not just stupid jokes, which is what you want from Sandler, but also stupid, shallow thinking.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »