San Francisco Chronicle's Scores

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For 9,302 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 2.2 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:
9302 movie reviews
  1. We get a lot of hapless victims in an expensive endeavor that is surprisingly lifeless.
  2. This new film is exceptional and one of Ozon’s best.
  3. Song to Song is Terrence Malick’s first truly awful film. In it, he does all the things that Malick does, except for all the great things that Malick does.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Entertaining yet somber documentary.
  4. No, T2 is not a great film, but its pleasures are great — and so rare and accomplished that they raise T2 to a level approximating greatness. There is something to be said for a movie this enjoyable. T2 is great enough.
  5. It’s hard to dislike a film where almost every character, no matter how small, brings something to the screen, and because of that, Wilson World is worth inhabiting for a few hours.
  6. As light entertainment goes, CHiPs is fairly accomplished, and Pena and Shepard make a good team. If someone wants to turn CHiPs into a franchise of some kind, worse things have happened.
  7. Beauty and the Beast creates an air of enchantment from its first moments, one that lingers and builds and takes on qualities of warmth and generosity as it goes along.
  8. The Little Prince is heartbreaking, beautiful and irresistible.
  9. Far too precious and eager to please to really deserve its self-description as a fairy tale.
  10. It is funny in an absurdist way, but it’s heartfelt, too. It creates unease, but also sympathy.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    In performance and rehearsal clips, Heymann’s saturated cinematography captures the raw physicality and emotion of Naharin’s work, and the way he cajoles, demeans and seduces his dancers.
  11. Kong: Skull Island is a smart SciFi action movie that doesn’t rely on a handful of monsters and random scenes of computerized destruction to run out the clock. It has a smart script, imaginative filmmaking and a cast of fine actors that actually get to act.
  12. The Shack is unshakable in its religious message, and that’s admirable in a cynical world. But viewed objectively as cinema, it’s just not a very good film.
  13. This is how bad Table 19 gets: At a certain point in the movie, there is absolutely no reason that any of the characters would remain at the wedding or anywhere near it. So the movie devises a false reason to keep them in the general vicinity.
  14. It’s moving but not maudlin, and there’s humor in addition to compassion.
  15. The documentary is gentle and observational, unfolding slowly and smoothly. No overarching drama here, just a slice of daily life.
  16. If one can forgive its derivativeness and predictability, Before I Fall is well-acted and directed, and its message of acceptance and responsibility reads as heartfelt.
  17. Logan takes its indestructible metal claws to comic book movie norms and destroys them, and it’s a wonderful thing.
  18. It’s always fun to watch the charismatic Bernal.
  19. It’s the kind of observational humor that instills a knowing chuckle and nod of the head, as opposed to an all-out chortle.
  20. Get Out reveals an underlying unease. It diffuses tension, even as it points to its source. It may be somewhat rough and unrefined and even ill-considered in some of its particulars. Yet it may stand as a kind of pop culture document of this historical moment, a moment that’s not nearly as funny as this movie.
  21. Too lackluster to be praised highly, yet too benign to be excoriated, “Rock Dog” is the perfect family film for a rainy day with no other options. It does not deserve mention in any animation history book; and yet it’s completely satisfactory in the moment.
  22. Breezily bounces back and forth from Baja to Los Angeles, and it’s a pleasant diversion, on both sides of the border.
  23. It’s not a bad film, just, strangely, not a good one.
  24. The film is a plodding 2 ½ hours long, with an abundance of livestock gore, endless dental trauma and a violent sex scene.
  25. The narrative is clumsy, and the monster scenes are ridiculous, but not ridiculous enough to be funny, just ridiculous enough to be boring.
  26. For at least an hour of its hour and a half running time, Fist Fight is a complete failure, a sour comedy without laughs. But then something happens in the movie’s last quarter. It doesn’t exactly redeem itself, but it comes into focus and starts making sense on its own weird terms.
  27. No, this is not good. This is just not good.
  28. A strange good movie, bad in every way but its effect. And it’s an effective woman’s story, not exactly believable, but with another kind of truth, a truth of the heart. If that’s not enough, it’s close.

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