Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle
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For 393 reviews, this critic has graded:
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52% higher than the average critic
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44% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.9 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Edward Guthmann's Scores
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| Average review score: | 65 |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 234 out of 393
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Mixed: 111 out of 393
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Negative: 48 out of 393
393
movie reviews
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Edward Guthmann 25
A half-baked disappointment...never flies, never comes close to meeting its own expectations. -
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Edward Guthmann 25
The schmaltz is relentless in The Legend of 1900, the newest film from "Cinema Paradiso'' director Giuseppe Tornatore. It comes in waves, it leeches onto every surface and it turns decent actors into sticky-sweet fuzzballs. -
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Edward Guthmann 25
It's a bitter pill to swallow, featuring a quartet of unsympathetic characters and an unrelenting air of misanthropy. -
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Edward Guthmann 25
Isn't some sober history lesson that bogs down in long speeches and tedious facts. It's about style, it's about fashion, it's about rock 'n' roll busting out in medieval France. -
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Edward Guthmann 25
In concept alone, Ravenous is anything but appetizing, but in execution it's worse than you'd imagine. -
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Edward Guthmann 25
They try to make Beverly adorable, and the movie comes off strained and dishonest as a result. -
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Edward Guthmann 25
Alan Bates and Charlotte Rampling are the brave stars of this pretty but sterile adaptation of the Anton Chekhov stage classic. -
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Edward Guthmann 25
Despite its technical defects and negligent production values, The Flip Side will probably appeal to a Filipino-American audience. -
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Edward Guthmann 25
Dredges up every cliche about druggy, obnoxious dreamers on the fringes of Hollywood and assumes that said cliches have the power to shock and surprise. -
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Edward Guthmann 25
This is a sloppy hash of a movie, poorly directed and plotted in a way that looks as if it were improvised on the spot. -
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Edward Guthmann 25
Knows its audience and doesn't stint on the flatulence jokes, poop jokes, leg-humping dogs and moments of homo-panic. -
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Edward Guthmann 25
This is the downside of Roberts' giant success and her dazzling ability to charm: Every time she goes plain, as she did in the little-seen "Mary Reilly" and "Michael Collins," our princess simply fizzles. -
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Edward Guthmann 25
It isn't simple bad taste that Formula 51 deals in, but a total vacuum of feeling. -
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Edward Guthmann 25
Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty draw everything in simplistic, overstated terms. The good guys are pure and spunky, the bad guys bellicose and one-dimensional, the conflicts stripped of nuance. -
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Edward Guthmann 25
Cynical to an extreme, it doesn't illustrate its points but blasts them at us -- in italics, boldface and capital letters. -
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Edward Guthmann 25
Might be a blast of ridiculous fun -- the way truly bad movies tend to be -- if it weren't so noxious and reprehensible. -
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Edward Guthmann 25
In a movie as hackneyed and as dull as Evolution, the small favors of Duchovny's performance stand out. -
