San Francisco Chronicle's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
For 9,303 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:
9303 movie reviews
  1. Hawke is the movie's revelation.
  2. A thriller that presses all the buttons: parental love, childhood terror, fear of Vince Vaughn.
  3. A tale of yuppie conformity and domestic angst that quickly turns into a horror film.
  4. Funny and sweet enough to delight kids and inventive enough to satisfy adults.
  5. A charmer, a movie whose embrace of cinema is so passionate it could be mistaken for an embrace of life.
  6. It's called One, and the hemorrhaging begins with the so-called story, which doesn't quite add up to one.
  7. The Coens' plotting, with its suspense and reversals, is a source of amazement and delight.
  8. An audacious film, set in contemporary Marseille.
  9. If one ignores reason, High Heels hums along well enough as a crime caper.
  10. The movie has some clumsy dialogue and awkward turns, but the picture is brisk and likable.
  11. This is a tour-de-force performance, delivered by an actor at the top of his game, and it's a shame that K-Pax, instead of engaging our imaginations as it promises to, devolves into such a conventional, paint-by- numbers disappointment.
  12. Kline, in particular, has the spark and know-how to overcome some awfully belabored writing and situations.
  13. Oddly comforting in its inconsistent acting and bad monster makeup.
  14. The best teenage werewolf movie ever made.
  15. If this movie ever figured out what it wanted to be when it grows up, it would be a terrific one.
  16. Doesn't work at all. Even the structure is off.
  17. It's that dilemma -- a commitment to Orthodox life, the refusal to deny one's sexuality and the fear of expulsion once that sexuality is revealed -- that director Sandi Simcha DuBowski illustrates so powerfully.
  18. About American anti-Semitism, but it's not a typical genteel "cause" movie.
  19. They try to make Beverly adorable, and the movie comes off strained and dishonest as a result.
  20. Jay and Claire are exquisitely played by Mark Rylance and Kerry Fox.
  21. Not as simple as it looks, though its appeal is simple: Robert Redford goes to prison, and James Gandolfini ("The Sopranos") is the warden. That's a movie worth seeing right there.
  22. Mystery skillfully evokes Victorian London's dark depths.
  23. A sexy, mildly entertaining import.
  24. Leaves an impression, while its specifics fade almost immediately.
  25. A great experience, precisely because it's so intimate and unguarded.
  26. A coming-of-age story that gets it all wrong.
  27. Where it really counts, though, it's the same good old comic action fantasy.
  28. Nobody would claim it adds up to much of a comedy. It's strictly for someone looking for a goof-off.
  29. Taken as a whole, Bandits is a success, a two-hour entertainment that floats along, stumbling into various genres, discovering its moments.
  30. Exhilarating not only for its dreamlike images and fierce, frequently reckless imagination but also for the fact that it got made (and released) at all.

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