San Francisco Examiner's Scores
- Movies
For 928 reviews, this publication has graded:
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49% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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47% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.8 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
| Highest review score: | Big Night | |
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| Lowest review score: | Luminarias |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 524 out of 928
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Mixed: 227 out of 928
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Negative: 177 out of 928
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Wesley Morris
A depressing show of how truly, madly, deeply outmoded Hollywood can be.- San Francisco Examiner
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Several times during this film, you wish you were a bottle rocket so you could explode out of your seat and leave this tedious mess behind.- San Francisco Examiner
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The entire film rings totally fake and the resulting dishonest sentimentality makes you fidget in your seat and count the seconds until the sweet but completely predictable ending.- San Francisco Examiner
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Wesley Morris
It's too cryptic and unfulfilled to serve as a tool for anything beyond its own obfuscation.- San Francisco Examiner
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Wesley Morris
Cult shocker has been turned into throwaway megaplex fodder.- San Francisco Examiner
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Wesley Morris
Like two hours of outtakes in search of a studio audience.- San Francisco Examiner
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Walter Addiego
Grumpier Old Men certainly isn't relying on its mawkish and hokey story to put warm bodies in the seats. There's no reason to see the picture - a sequel to their 1993 hit, “Grumpy Old Men" - other than to relish the talents of these two veterans, plus Sophia Loren, a newcomer to the series.- San Francisco Examiner
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Wesley Morris
If filmmaking has ever been less thrilling and more disengaging, I'd like to see it.- San Francisco Examiner
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Like "Rocky Horror Picture Show," Heavy Metal makes most sense as a midnight weekend feature, when many of its viewers are likely to be herbally and chemically addled. Without the help of intoxicants, Heavy Metal comes across as what it is - a wildly sophomoric and stupid cartoon celebrating gore, rape and bad music.- San Francisco Examiner
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Wesley Morris
Most of American Psycho just sits there, looking at trouble, rather than looking for it - complacent, overjoyed in fact to exist at all.- San Francisco Examiner
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G. Allen Johnson
A terribly bad movie, one of the worst of its kind in recent years.- San Francisco Examiner
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Wesley Morris
If your name's on the marquee, chances are your agent's already dead.- San Francisco Examiner
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Wesley Morris
Breaks new ground both as an abominable enterprise in guy-talk and as no-budget hackwork.- San Francisco Examiner
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Wesley Morris
It's an experience as frustrating as watching Jeff Gordon drive a stock car through a bowl of oatmeal.- San Francisco Examiner
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Unfortunately, the contemporary horror movie has ceased being an individual work full of surprises and fresh manifestations of the Gothic imagination - it has, instead, been reduced to the level of an inflexible, repetitious, ritualistic event.- San Francisco Examiner
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G. Allen Johnson
If only director Luis Llosa and his cast could see the joke and seize upon it; instead, like its computer-morphed snake, the film doesn't have a clever bone in its body.- San Francisco Examiner
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Wesley Morris
Overlong, naggingly pretentious, more absurd than absurdist and a cruel, cruel bore.- San Francisco Examiner
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Wesley Morris
It is a traffic jam of broken hearts, fluxing racial identities and deplorable outfits that has everything but a salsa overhaul of "I Will Survive."- San Francisco Examiner
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This film may set an all-time record for shortest time between the big screen and your local video store.- San Francisco Examiner
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Barbara Shulgasser
That Berkley cannot act is indisputable. But her dancing looks like a seizure.- San Francisco Examiner
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Barbara Shulgasser
One long offensive treatise on just how vile two human beings can be.- San Francisco Examiner
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