San Francisco Examiner's Scores
- Movies
For 878 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 4.7 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: | Big Night | |
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Lowest review score: | Luminarias |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 488 out of 878
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Mixed: 227 out of 878
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Negative: 163 out of 878
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Walter Addiego
If you know Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita," you'll be unable to watch The Great Beauty without thinking about it. This gorgeous Italian movie, like its predecessor, balances pungent satire and a more melancholy mood in portraying the dissolute world of the upper crust in contemporary Rome.- San Francisco Examiner
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An excellent human-interest documentary that unlike so many others has a genuine appeal beyond someone already interested in the subject matter.- San Francisco Examiner
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Walter Addiego
This splatter film is set in Norway, but rest assured, it sticks with the formula. The young people to be killed off are just as obnoxious as their counterparts in American gorefests.- San Francisco Examiner
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Walter Addiego
This is grim material, but director Hilary Brougher -- working from her own script that won a Sundance award -- examines the lives of these two suffering women without sensationalism or preaching.- San Francisco Examiner
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Some nice performances and modest laughs highlight this amiable British comedy.- San Francisco Examiner
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A remarkable study of the corrosive effects of fear and power on an establishment insider who puts duty above all else.- San Francisco Examiner
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Walter Addiego
Besides some fine dogfight sequences, it often feels threadbare, just an exercise in recycling.- San Francisco Examiner
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Wesley Morris
Leave it to Ron Howard to turn a plaintive Dr. Seuss ditty into a C-grade Tim Burton psychodrama.- San Francisco Examiner
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Walter Addiego
Modestly better than last year's awful "End of Days," though it falls well short of Arnold's "Terminator" peak period.- San Francisco Examiner
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Wesley Morris
Little Nicky is but a meek gross-out cousin of "The Waterboy."- San Francisco Examiner
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Wesley Morris
Simply an endurance contest, one almost worth staying the 82 minutes to see who wins.- San Francisco Examiner
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Wesley Morris
It's hard not to like a movie like Men of Honor, but it's entirely possible.- San Francisco Examiner
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Wesley Morris
As entertaining, charming and conceited as other Robert Redford joints, but it's also insufferably obvious.- San Francisco Examiner
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Wesley Morris
So phenomenal that Bill Murray can't even steal it. And he tries. So excellent that Murray's MTV progeny Tom Green can't sink it.- San Francisco Examiner
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Wesley Morris
The welcome hints at emotional excess are compromised by the blunt force of the movie's political point-making.- San Francisco Examiner
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There's more gymnastic yammering in Loving Jezebel than in a season of "Dawson's Creek."- San Francisco Examiner
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Wesley Morris
Cult shocker has been turned into throwaway megaplex fodder.- San Francisco Examiner
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Wesley Morris
Has no intention of taking a more sophisticated path to make its point.- San Francisco Examiner
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Feels like an interminable pilot for a show to fill that deadly 8:30 slot between "Friends" and "Will and Grace."- San Francisco Examiner
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Wesley Morris
There's the world-alteringly scary possibility that (Leder) might be trying to kill us with a star-studded "After School Special."- San Francisco Examiner
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A finely coiffed, cream-cheese "8 1/2" remix with Gere, a Marcello Mastroianni for Oprah Winfrey times.- San Francisco Examiner
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