San Francisco Examiner's Scores
- Movies
For 760 reviews, this publication has graded:
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49% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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47% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.3 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 59
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 421 out of 760
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Mixed: 201 out of 760
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Negative: 138 out of 760
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movie reviews
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Critic Score 75
Everything you would want from a Big Brother film: Good-looking, preachy in an Old West kind of way, wobbling between humor and murder, hellbent and periodically brilliant. -
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Wesley Morris 75
A shockingly eloquent, nearly moving feat of Y2K-trendiness. -
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Wesley Morris 75
There must be nine or 10 thwacks to the neck throughout Sleepy Hollow, and Burton finds a different way to make the resulting severed noggin fall as though you'd forgotten the last one. -
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Walter Addiego 75
Gets blue-ribbon results from its thoroughbred cast of improvisational comics. -
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Wesley Morris 75
A meticulously assembled dramatization of a grossly controversial moment in TV history. -
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Critic Score 75
This is not a movie for the squeamish, by any means. But for those who like their thrillers dark and their heroes a bit more complicated and flawed than the average shoot-without-a-blink type so prevalent in today's movies, 8MM fills the bill. -
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G. Allen Johnson 75
About as warm, pleasing and inviting as a film about divorce, infidelity and terminal cancer can be. -
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Wesley Morris 75
A collection of arbitrary sketches, bits and improvs jammed into a locker room-style variety show masquerading as some semblance of a narrative. -
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Critic Score 75
While this movie hasn't many surprises, it does offer strong performances, especially from Gyllenhaal. -
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Wesley Morris 75
Stooge-filled farce offers low laughs but lacks a point. -
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G. Allen Johnson 75
There's not a whole lot to Waking Ned Devine, but it may be enough for those who like their quirky comedies from the British Isles - a burgeoning genre now - both atmospheric and gentle. -
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Critic Score 75
Such an ambitious, well-acted film that it's easy to overlook its flaws as relatively minor. -
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Wesley Morris 75
An edgy, hypnotic entertainment that's like a Club Med production of "Lord of the Flies." -
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Wesley Morris 75
A film where suspense and exhilaration are incompatible, and a receding plot line is merely the platform for cars to fly through panes of glass. -
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Wesley Morris 75
One of Lee's unsung gifts as a filmmaker is his discovery of that place between eye-popping surrealism and wrenching Greek tragedy. -
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Wesley Morris 75
Prince-Bythewood's movie is an occasionally clunky, mostly engaging coming out party for herself. -
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Walter Addiego 75
Succeeds better than it ought to, largely because of the personality and prodigious talents of its director and star, the Italian comedian Roberto Benigni. -
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Wesley Morris 75
As formulaic, but occasionally outré multiplex-bound behemoths go, Gladiator is a foaming beast. -
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Barbara Shulgasser 75
Pi will not be for everyone, but for those who are fed up with the mainstream idiocy that gets dumped into theaters each summer, this movie willbe like a great big palate-clearing taste of sorbet. -
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Walter Addiego 75
A film that can be enjoyed by all ages and that insults no one's intelligence. -
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G. Allen Johnson 75
The emphasis is on comedic interaction, not plot - too bad, "48 HRS" had both - but the pair adds spice to the predictable opposites-detract gags. -
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Wesley Morris 75
In 80 minutes, the film accumulates a staggering gravity. -
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