Bob Graham

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San Francisco Chronicle
For 229 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 35% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Bob Graham's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Lowest review score: 0 Pitch Black
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 123 out of 229
  2. Mixed: 71 out of 229
  3. Negative: 35 out of 229
229 movie reviews
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    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    Eyes Wide Shut
    Totally absorbing even when it, too, strays.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    Training Day
    It is so propulsive so much of the time, it almost looks as if it's going to go the distance. If Washington & Co. don't quite manage to bring it home, the getting there sure is something.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    A Dog of Flanders
    There are times when watching this film is like a near-death experience.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    The Yards
    Keeps sinking into its own grimness.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 25 Bob Graham
    How High
    Doesn't look like a movie somebody made. It looks like a movie somebody hallucinated and put up on the screen.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Bob Graham
    My First Mister
    A coming-of-age story that gets it all wrong.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    What Lies Beneath
    Goes Hitchcock one better by imagining what it would be like if the master had the advantage of digital technology.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    Stardom
    What makes it interesting is the story that the viewer must put together, of a model who lives her entire life -- or at least what we see of it -- in front of the camera.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Bob Graham
    Mission to Mars
    Something so sappy, no one would believe me if I told them. It has to be seen to be disbelieved.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    Brokedown Palace
    The specifics of their predicament are well handled -- being thrown in a Third World prison may be every tourist's nightmare -- even if the movie eventually goes soft and squishy.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 100 Bob Graham
    Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
    Jim Jarmusch has come up with something strange and amazing.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    Romeo Must Die
    Li is a phenomenon.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    What Dreams May Come
    Astonishing visualizations of the afterlife are coupled with a drawn-out allegory about communication between the living and the dead that becomes something of a trial to sit through.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    Finding Forrester
    Rich supplies some eloquent grace notes, and Van Sant uses them to make understated music.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    BASEketball
    Not half-bad. It's about three- quarters bad, actually, but what's left offers some goof-off fun.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    Little Nicky
    Adam Sandler finally has a good excuse: The devil made him do it.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 100 Bob Graham
    Requiem for a Dream
    He (Aronofsky) has put together a phantasmagoria of self-destructive obsession that is so visually astounding it becomes its own saving grace. Otherwise, we might not be able to bear it.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    Thomas and the Magic Railroad
    This land of sweetness and light may appeal to many, but to some it is going to seem like living hell.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 25 Bob Graham
    The Watcher
    A hodgepodge of half-baked visual styles can't disguise the fact that this dismal thriller is all situation and no story.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    The Count of Monte Cristo
    The stuff of high romance, brought off with considerable wit, too. People are going to love it.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    Madadayo
    This warm, celebratory and very public film is punctuated by sudden and luminous private visualizations.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Bob Graham
    Audition
    This movie can be recommended only to dyed-in-the-wool fans of the genre. Anyone who goes into one of Miike's films must be prepared to be put through the wringer.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 100 Bob Graham
    Bowfinger
    A venemous Valentine to Hollywood sugarcoated with laughs.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    Boiler Room
    Fascinating -- up to a point.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    The Wood
    The picture, directed by Rick Famuyiwa, becomes a juggling act, contrasting the efforts of the three grown-up buddies to get to a wedding on time, with flashbacks of their youth.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Bob Graham
    Six Days Seven Nights
    Action in an action comedy is supposed to be funny, too, as Jackie Chan well knows. The refitting of the crashed plane is so tedious we feel as if we're doing the work ourselves.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Bob Graham
    The Invisible Man
    Claude Rains' performance in the title role of The Invisible Man may be outtasight, but you can still see the hand of director James Whale.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 25 Bob Graham
    Autumn in New York
    Turns into one long wallow.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Bob Graham
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    The class act of action movies.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 100 Bob Graham
    Planet of the Apes
    The new Planet of the Apes is not a remake, and it's not a sequel. It is an amazing display of imagination.
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