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 3.8 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 75
At its warmhearted center, Beauty Shop is a workshop in how to walk around like Oprah with a feeling of confidence and entitlement. -
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Ruthe Stein 75
A marital comedy as perceptive as it is delectable. -
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Ruthe Stein 75
The sooner you let yourself go with Kim's flow, the more likely you are to come away satisfied. Think of it as South Korea's answer to "Memento," just don't think too hard. -
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Ruthe Stein 75
Though overly long and difficult to digest, it's a feast you won't want to miss. -
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Ruthe Stein 75
An argument could be made that too many bad things happen to the good members of this sisterhood. The movie does occasionally teeter on the brink of soap opera, but then, so does life. -
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Ruthe Stein 75
The humor is all over the place, veering from light to dark and from broad to subtle -- as if an "I Love Lucy" episode had been retooled by Woody Allen. -
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Ruthe Stein 75
Mate swapping is so '70s. But Alan Rudolph, who wrote and directed Afterglow, avoids making it seem dated by presenting the menage a quatre as accidental. -
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Ruthe Stein 75
That the would-be buddies are played by Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt ensures enough star power to keep things moving even during the sluggish early scenes that set up their relationship. -
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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
Like its singular central character, Before the Fall stands out from the pack. -
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Ruthe Stein 75
Richard Jenkins gives the standout supporting performance, worthy of Oscar consideration, as Josey's father, a miner unable to conceal his anger at his daughter for having a child out of wedlock and, now, creating dissension at his workplace. -
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Ruthe Stein 75
An emotionally satisfying example of a genre whose sketchiness can be off-putting. -
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Ruthe Stein 75
It works as an intriguingly offbeat character study while offering Nicolas Cage a chance to show why he used to be considered one of the top actors of his generation. -
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Ruthe Stein 75
The movie harks back to a time before state-of-the-art technology when writers and directors had to rely mostly on imagination. -
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Ruthe Stein 75
Funny, original, occasionally poignant and almost all of it too dirty to repeat in a newspaper. -
