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.
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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
Visually stunning, it meshes haunting images with a complex multilevel story about the enchantment of youth. -
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Ruthe Stein 100
To say it is about a debilitating disease is as reductive as saying "Little Miss Sunshine" is about a beauty pageant. Both are intimate stories of family ties that bind but sometimes also choke. -
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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
The movie is a stunner, so hypnotic that the length hardly matters. -
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Ruthe Stein 100
Immediately has you in its thrall and doesn't let go -- a reminder of how powerful and moving cinema set in wartime can be when all the elements align. -
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Ruthe Stein 100
The Visitor, is, if anything, more imaginative and touching than his first. -
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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
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
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
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
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
One of very few films to accurately portray the experience of growing up male. -
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Ruthe Stein 100
Notes on a Scandal won't be everyone's cup of tea. But if you like your films strong, this one is not to be missed. -
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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
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
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
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
There's an edge to this exemplary family movie, just as there is in the story. -
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Ruthe Stein 100
The humor manages to be simultaneously sophisticated, supremely silly and very dark. -
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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
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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