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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2% same as 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 25
It would require a near-lethal injection of nitrous oxide to induce laughter. -
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Ruthe Stein 25
Mitchell may be another Russ Meyer -- a dubious honor -- but he's no Tony Kushner. -
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Ruthe Stein 25
It's as if a trumped-up biopic of Andy Warhol were to appear titled "Soup.'' -
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Ruthe Stein 25
The Fountain' never comes together. Like the time traveler at its center, it's all over the map. -
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Ruthe Stein 25
Although well intentioned, has the superficial gloss of a TV movie of the week. -
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Ruthe Stein 25
A half-baked script by Jacob Meszaros and Mya Stark admittedly gives Feig little to work with. But his young cast is capable of a lot more than is required of them in this so-called comedy. -
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Ruthe Stein 25
The best that can be said of this charmless animated picture is that whether or not it ends happily -- an outcome you're unlikely to give a hoot about -- it does, happily, end. -
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Ruthe Stein 25
A Western short on dialogue and long on pomposity, is little more than an extended chase scene down a snow-filled mountaintop to a desert floor. -
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Ruthe Stein 25
Every once in a while you catch glimpses of originality and see what Gray Matters might have been if it hadn't gone soft and safe. -
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Ruthe Stein 25
Although The Reaping' borrows elements from classics of the genre -- rips them off might be more accurate -- it fails to build the psychological tension that made them so creepily good. -
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Ruthe Stein 25
Save the price of admission to this dull retread and go have your hair done. -
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Ruthe Stein 25
Shoot 'Em Up is not only the title of Hollywood's latest descent into nonsensical mayhem but pretty much sums up the entire inane plot as well. -
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Ruthe Stein 25
A slow-moving family drama guaranteed to induce a nap if not somnambulism. -
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Ruthe Stein 25
An annoying little film that attempts to be lascivious but is merely ludicrous. -
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Ruthe Stein 25
Filth & Wisdom is dead in the water, an excruciating bore even at a compact 84 minutes. -
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Ruthe Stein 25
It is crystal clear who screwed up this tortuously slow-moving romantic drama. -
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Ruthe Stein 25
This is a movie of excesses that doesn't know when to settle down. It aims to be a slapstick comedy, a romantic comedy and a plain old romance but falls short of each goal. -
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Ruthe Stein 25
From watching this meandering, stilted movie, anyone unfamiliar with Charles Dickens' novel would be not only disinclined to pick it up but also clueless as to why it's considered great. -
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Ruthe Stein 25
Noirish thrillers live or die by their plot twists and dialogue -- talk literally being cheap compared to action shots. Unfortunately, the script by first-time filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson fails on both counts. -
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Ruthe Stein 25
The movie [Sugarman] made gives little indication that she understands teen girls, dramatic or plain. Much of Confessions seems clueless and -- even worse for moviegoers of any age -- listless. -
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Ruthe Stein 25
The biggest puzzlement about "What'' is what it's doing in major movie theaters around the country when it so clearly belongs on one of those small cable channels given to peculiar programming. -
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Ruthe Stein 25
Spending an hour and a half inside a uterus might be more entertaining than this tiresome sequel. -
