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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The movie is decidedly old-fashioned, aiming to send kids and their parents out of the theater feeling good about themselves.- 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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Walter Addiego
A dimwitted, fill-in-the-blanks horror opus that slanders a fine and useful mammal.- San Francisco Examiner
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It's a truly strange coupling of mooning romanticism and rank stupidity that fairly screams, "Teenage America, we love your money!"- San Francisco Examiner
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Wesley Morris
There's gangsta rap with funnier insights into the opposite sex.- San Francisco Examiner
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The best that can be said about this film is that it's watchable, and that's not the way it could or should be.- San Francisco Examiner
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This is not a movie for the squeamish, by any means. But for those who like their thrillers dark and their heroes a bit more complicated and flawed than the average shoot-without-a-blink type so prevalent in today's movies, 8MM fills the bill.- San Francisco Examiner
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Wesley Morris
It's a movie so foul even the folks at the NAACP Image Awards would have to look the other way.- San Francisco Examiner
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While it may be true that in space no one can hear you scream, groaning should be a perfectly audible way of saying the intergalactic alien-buster Wing Commander sucks.- San Francisco Examiner
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Wesley Morris
An archaic rail-ride into the heart of boredom.- San Francisco Examiner
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An hour into the picture, Spade offers a pretty funny imitation of belter Neil Diamond, but it's a long 60 minutes for such a pitiful payoff.- San Francisco Examiner
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Korine's trying to offer a radical vision of rotten America, but the whole thing feels warmed over.- San Francisco Examiner
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Barbara Shulgasser
Hush, which is an absurdly bad mixture of "Rosemary's Baby" and any Bette Davis movie from the 1960s, seems to be a classic case of a grasping mother trying to possess her beloved son.- San Francisco Examiner
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Barbara Shulgasser
Especially fine are Spade and Louiso, the latter possessing a quality of injured integrity that is priceless here.- San Francisco Examiner
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Wesley Morris
You're smarter than this, but occasionally it tricks you into thinking it might be up to something you haven't considered, like an above-average, extra-bloody episode of "Scooby Doo."- 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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Barbara Shulgasser
This is right up there with the dumbest pictures of the year.- San Francisco Examiner
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The movie is a dismal and misguided special-effects romp featuring two of the deadest performances recorded this year so far.- 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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If filmmaking has ever been less thrilling and more disengaging, I'd like to see it.- 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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