Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle
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For 398 reviews, this critic has graded:
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56% higher than the average critic
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42% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3.6 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Ruthe Stein's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 233 out of 398
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Mixed: 110 out of 398
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Negative: 55 out of 398
398
movie reviews
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Ruthe Stein 100
I don't claim to have seen every entry from around the world, but it's hard to imagine five better than this deliciously offbeat comedy, as wildly inventive as anything Billy Wilder ever conceived. -
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Ruthe Stein 100
Evokes grand emotions -- anxiety, sadness, joy -- sometimes within moments of one another. Broken Wings has heart and a poetic soul. -
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Ruthe Stein 100
Much of that appeal comes from compelling performances by the two main actors. -
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Ruthe Stein 100
A breed apart from anything coming off the Hollywood assembly line or, for that matter, from the saccharine romances Britain has lately produced. -
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Ruthe Stein 100
Daring in its affirmation that a dowdy woman in her late 60s still can let go of her inhibitions and exhibit a lascivious side. -
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Ruthe Stein 100
The very best thrillers -- a select group to which The Clearing clearly belongs -- exploit subconscious fears that bubble up at vulnerable moments. -
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Ruthe Stein 100
A revelatory independent film whose moments of incredible sadness are offset by the same state of grace that blesses its astonishing title character. -
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Ruthe Stein 100
Woody Allen's strongest and most mordantly funny movie in years, even if it is also his bleakest. -
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Ruthe Stein 100
One of very few films to accurately portray the experience of growing up male. -
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Ruthe Stein 100
Often is on the verge of spilling over into melodrama, but that doesn't bother me because life is the same way. -
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Ruthe Stein 100
Hauntingly tells a story older than the Odyssey and as timely as today's body count from Iraq. -
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Ruthe Stein 100
Nobody into lush melodramas dripping in sex should miss this pulsating Italian import. -
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Ruthe Stein 100
Totally original yet filled with familiar human frailties, "Everyone" leaps off the screen to become one of those rare movie-going experiences. -
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Ruthe Stein 100
It grabs you from a symbolic opening scene of gang members rolling the dice -- the odds, it soon becomes clear, are stacked against them getting lucky -- and never lets go. -
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Ruthe Stein 100
Richly satisfying entertainment the way movies are at their best, when they prod you to think. -
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Ruthe Stein 100
The thrills in Spike Lee's singularly savvy thriller are in small unexpected moments. -
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Ruthe Stein 100
The movie is a stunner, so hypnotic that the length hardly matters. -
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Ruthe Stein 100
A film that must be seen to understand the sad truths of our times. It's been made with a sensitivity and creativity that's come to exemplify Winterbottom's work. -
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Ruthe Stein 100
Glatzer and Westmoreland live in Echo Park, and they have given their film a remarkable sense of place. -
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Ruthe Stein 100
Unlike Sean Penn's demagogue in "All the King's Men," you're able to forget that Whitaker is acting. He embodies the role. When clips of the real Amin are shown at the end, it's almost shocking to realize the extent to which Whitaker has become him. -
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Ruthe Stein 100
There's an edge to this exemplary family movie, just as there is in the story. -
