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 3.7 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
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movie reviews
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Ruthe Stein 75
McNally adapted his Tony-award winning play for the screen, and for once a movie is an improvement on the stage version. -
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Ruthe Stein 75
A frothy comedy with the most adorable buddies since "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." -
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Ruthe Stein 50
As a sports drama -- a genre that's gotten entirely too much play lately -- "Dreamer" is singularly unexciting. -
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Ruthe Stein 75
A wildly entertaining fantasy thriller that propels Russian cinema into the 21st century. -
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Ruthe Stein 75
Dark, disturbing and audaciously original in a way only indies are given license to be anymore, the film never telegraphs where it's heading. But you don't need a pathfinder to sense the general direction is toward hell. -
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Ruthe Stein 75
A marital comedy as perceptive as it is delectable. -
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Ruthe Stein 75
The filmmakers have wisely turned it into a comedy, and a wickedly entertaining one at that. -
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Ruthe Stein 75
For all its depiction of a descent into drug addiction, Candy is filled with surprisingly sweet moments and goes down more easily than seems possible given the subject matter. -
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Ruthe Stein 75
Suffused with a golden glow, the movie looks and sounds like a fairy tale. -
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Ruthe Stein 75
Boasts a collection of oddball characters, some more sharply written than others. -
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Ruthe Stein 75
The Last Kiss ponders what you give up -- and what you gain -- from sticking with what you've got. -
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Ruthe Stein 75
When the movie is viewed with fresh eyes, the most captivating feature is this surreal Vegas -- its neon signs askew, as if reconfigured by Andy Warhol, and its preternaturally glistening streets a siren's call to an ever-new batch of suckers. -
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Ruthe Stein 75
All along, you know something terrible is going to happen, and when it does, you leave the theater shaken and deeply moved. -
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Ruthe Stein 50
I'm not denying that a 40-year- old woman might be self-conscious about going around with someone this young. But the subject isn't interesting or provocative enough to sustain an entire movie. -
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Ruthe Stein 75
If the formula seems a little tired, it still has more sophistication and pizzazz than most action films. -
