San Francisco Chronicle's Scores
- Movies
- TV
For 5,344 reviews, this publication has graded:
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53% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.1 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2,892 out of 5344
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Mixed: 1,562 out of 5344
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Negative: 890 out of 5344
5,344
movie reviews
- By critic score
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Critic Score 25
It's a ho-hum-er, almost a complete bummer. [6 Jan 1989, Daily Datebook, p.E1] -
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Reviewed by
Edward Guthmann 25
In concept alone, Ravenous is anything but appetizing, but in execution it's worse than you'd imagine. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
It's one of those self-consciously cute pictures, about as hard to take as a person who stands in front of a mirror and preens all day. [23 Mar 1990, Daily Datebook, p.E1] -
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Carla Meyer 25
Gets everything wrong, starting with a title that indicates a somewhat innocent romantic transgression. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
The picture, for all its slickness and style, is empty, empty-headed and emotionally false… [It] has no more depth than "Pretty Woman" and occupies the same moral landscape. [5 Apr 1991, Daily Datebook, p.E11] -
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Mick LaSalle 25
Just awful… There is probably not one interrupted 60-second stretch in which a line of dialogue doesn't clunk, an action doesn't ring false or an irritating plot turn doesn't present itself. [25 May 1991] -
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Critic Score 25
Without a compelling - and convincingly compelled - character at its center, the details in this film lack an agonizing drop-by-drop tension. The various pieces fall apart like the shattered mirrors that figure in the crimes. [15 Aug 1986] -
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Reviewed by
Edward Guthmann 25
They try to make Beverly adorable, and the movie comes off strained and dishonest as a result. -
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Carla Meyer 25
Nearly every bodily fluid makes an appearance in "Rules," a mean-spirited paean to hedonism set at an East Coast college where students attend class only occasionally, and then only to perform oral sex on instructors. -
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Bob Graham 25
This lurid thriller comes to life in fits and starts, and then sinks into the bog of its own cleverness once again. -
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Peter Stack 25
It's both amazing and depressing how much talent goes to waste in the lame adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s 1973 absurdist novel. -
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Peter Stack 25
Has an unrelenting staccato quality. Some would say a jackhammer quality. -
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Bob Graham 25
There are barrages of fast cuts to distract us from the fact that the director is showing us no real action. -
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Mick LaSalle 25
Just awful. But uniquely awful -- awful in a way that might just attract a cult audience. [3 Sept 1993] -
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Mick LaSalle 25
With most movies that fail, the fault can be ascribed to carelessness or lack or inspiration or cynicism. But Chelsea Walls, directed by actor Ethan Hawke, is clearly a labor of love. -
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Edward Guthmann 25
Alan Bates and Charlotte Rampling are the brave stars of this pretty but sterile adaptation of the Anton Chekhov stage classic. -
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C.W. Nevius 25
What this really is is a great deal of screaming and running from room to room, wacky chase scenes, the old bag switcheroo, dim-bulb crooks and zany antics. Everyone is working hard, but as with Sofia Vergara's costumes, there isn't enough material. -
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Reviewed by
Edward Guthmann 25
Despite its technical defects and negligent production values, The Flip Side will probably appeal to a Filipino-American audience. -
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