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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David Wiegand
The film isn't very interesting because it isn't well made.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Peter Hartlaub
That closing-credits sequence is by far the funniest thing in the disappointing movie,- San Francisco Chronicle
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Walter Addiego
A mediocre college comedy that blends bits of "Revenge of the Nerds," "Mean Girls" and "Legally Blonde" and doesn't have much to show for it.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Peter Hartlaub
Ponderous, repetitive and lacking a single rousing action sequence.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Peter Hartlaub
While the songs are recycled, Across the Universe stands out just by existing.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Mick LaSalle
A thoroughly entertaining film by a director at the height of his ability.- San Francisco Chronicle
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For the most part it is an effective, disturbing and - a rarity for Haggis - subtle exploration of the stateside war story.- San Francisco Chronicle
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David Wiegand
A similar blend of comedy and a grumbling skepticism about the essential goodness of human beings makes Ira & Abby feel, at times, like one of those great stage comedies of yesteryear transferred to the screen.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Walter Addiego
Mike Cahill's King of California reminds me of those '70s-era pictures beloved of the counterculture about appealing rebels who go down in flames of moral victory.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Mr. Woodcock may be a nasty tyrant, but he also knows his domain is small. "For Christ's sake," he tells Farley at one point, "it was just a PE class, you fruitcake."- San Francisco Chronicle
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Ruthe Stein
Jodie Foster and Terrence Howard are incredibly compelling and hold your attention despite Jordan's deliberately slow pacing.- San Francisco Chronicle
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With impressive clarity and sweep, The Rape of Europa recounts the Nazi theft and destruction of European art and architecture.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Joel Selvin
All the requisite talking heads pop up - Dylan, Springsteen, Baez - but it is Seeger himself who towers over the landscape. The filmmakers treat this aged curmudgeon almost too reverently, but it is hard not to be awed by this gentle, resolute soul because of the ideas he steadfastly and faithfully represented.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Peter Hartlaub
Difficult to watch, and the film is sabotaged by an impossibly naive lead character and the repetitive auditions that become gratuitously depressing.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Mick LaSalle
The finest American Westerns have a characteristic that 3:10 to Yuma shares. In a way that's almost mystical, they suggest a truth beyond the specifics of the tale.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Plays like a movie that some teenage boy cooked up in his chemistry lab. There are lots of potent things floating around in it - sexual initiation, drugs, fantasy-land wealth, brute violence, primitive rituals, Diane Lane and Donald Sutherland - but the mix just sits there without producing any notable reactions.- San Francisco Chronicle
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For those of us too young, this will give you an idea of what it meant to watch those baby steps that led to one giant leap.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Ruthe Stein
Attempts something startlingly original by melding light opera with soap opera.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Ruthe Stein
Shoot 'Em Up is not only the title of Hollywood's latest descent into nonsensical mayhem but pretty much sums up the entire inane plot as well.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Peter Hartlaub
Had a lot of promise, but ultimately isn't very funny.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Mick LaSalle
A complete bust, but the ways in which it fails are interesting.- San Francisco Chronicle
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David Wiegand
The spectacular scenery and compelling message counterbalance the somewhat plodding pace and wooden performances.- San Francisco Chronicle
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G. Allen Johnson
Garlin's directing has little pacing, and many of the borderline gags could have been salvaged with some sharper editing. And there's a shocking amount of jokes and situations that just don't work.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Almost everything about the movie lands with an emphatic, preordained thud.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Ruthe Stein
The producers have stated that they're going after an American market that supports Spanish-language TV networks, radio stations and newspapers. This niche audience may well respond to not being required to read subtitles, for once, in a movie geared to them.- San Francisco Chronicle
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Peter Hartlaub
Filmgoers looking for copious amounts of mindless violence won't be disappointed.- San Francisco Chronicle
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