San Francisco Chronicle's Scores
- Movies
- TV
For 5,345 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 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 2,892 out of 5345
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Mixed: 1,563 out of 5345
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Negative: 890 out of 5345
5,345
movie reviews
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Mick LaSalle 100
An intelligent, well-made film about a seemingly well-adjusted, likable and loquacious woman. -
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Bob Graham 100
This is a transcendent film, deeply committed and beautifully wrought. It will make anyone who sees it look at the world with new eyes. -
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Mick LaSalle 100
An exquisite and powerful documentary -- one whose elegance only heightens its devastating impact. -
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Mick LaSalle 100
From the outside, Sunshine sounds like the most boring film on Earth. In fact, it's glorious. -
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Mick LaSalle 100
Qualifies as director Giuseppe Tornatore's second full-fledged masterpiece. His first: "Cinema Paradiso." -
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Edward Guthmann 100
It's an horrific and tragic story, but somehow made beautiful through the care and attention of Schnabel's direction and Bardem's tender, unforgettable performance. -
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Bob Graham 100
Anybody with a soft spot for fakers, who either identifies with them or just admires their chutzpah, is going to get a kick out of Happy, Texas. -
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Mick LaSalle 100
Presents us with characters of such humanity and dignity that it begins to seem obscene that until now we haven't exactly given all that much thought to the Kurds. -
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Edward Guthmann 100
Wise, delicate and impeccably performed, Yi Yi is a three- hour drama that looks at one middle-class family in transition -- and does so with such a kind and probing eye that we all see our lives reflected through Yang's lens. -
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Peter Stack 100
A poetry of love, longing and affirmation bleeds through the music of Cuba, and some of the best sounds the island ever created are captured with embracing humanity. -
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Peter Stack 100
So wonderfully odd, even spiritual, that audiences won't be able to do anything but smile. -
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Edward Guthmann 100
An indelible statement on loneliness and spiritual thirst. -
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Mick LaSalle 100
At its slowest, the film has value as a historical document. At its best, the film gives a human face to stories of unimaginable suffering and unexpected triumph. -
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Bob Graham 100
Maybe it's no mystery how they did it, considering the aggregate comic talent, but this bunch achieves peaks of sublime nuttiness. -
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Mick LaSalle 100
Philippe Blasband's screenplay is witty and economical, and the film's editing is crisp. -
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Wesley Morris 100
Her (Anderson) performance is a study in the difference between hubris and pride, remarkable for how unshowy but profoundly devastating it is. -
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Mick LaSalle 100
Few who see it will be sorry. Sometimes being humane means not being squeamish. -
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Edward Guthmann 100
A first-rate crime thriller and further proof that Soderbergh is one of our great contemporary film stylists. -
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Edward Guthmann 100
This is a smart film, told in a minor key, that augurs well for Whaley's directing career. -
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Mick LaSalle 100
Fascinating in its depiction of presidential leadership in action. -
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Edward Guthmann 100
The writing, by Rapp and Catherine Dussart, is exquisite, and the performers, including Francois Truffaut's old colleague Jean-Pierre Leaud as a magistrate, are all first-rate. -
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Edward Guthmann 100
The result is a sprightly, entertaining film, but one in which the satire is neutralized for laughs. -
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Peter Stack 100
French director Claude Berri's exquisite, methodical Lucie Aubrac is a romantic thriller so tightly drawn it almost leaves one breathless. -
