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Ken Tucker

Agrees with the Tomatometer 87% of the time.

Biography:: New York Magazine film critic.
Publications:: Entertainment Weekly , New York Magazine , NPR.org

Total Reviews:: 58

Best Reviewed Films

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
B+	60%	Tuck Everlasting (2002)	" Any movie that signals the menace of a potential lynching by zooming its camera through the loop of a gallows noose cannot claim subtlety, but director Jay Russell never lets the swirling emotions of Tuck become too drippy." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Oct 17, 2002
	58%	Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)	" Mr. & Mrs. Smith works on almost every level and against all odds." — New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2006
	74%	War of the Worlds (2005)	" Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds is huge and scary, moving and funny-another capper to a career that seems like an unending succession of captivations." — New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2006
	46%	Constantine (2005)	" Reeves, meanwhile, has confidently entered his self-parodic period." — New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2006
	78%	Sin City (2005)	" If Raymond Chandler and Daffy Duck could have produced a child, Sin City would be their baby." — New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2006
	82%	Serenity (2005)	" Go out and see Joss Whedon's witty whizbang of an action movie, or we will kill a kitten." — New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2006
	87%	A History of Violence (2005)	" A remarkably convincing examination of heroism, hero worship, and the seductive allure of villainy." — New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2006
	82%	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)	" As the star who's framed in the center of nearly every shot he's in, Depp is a constantly surprising Willy Wonka." — New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2006
	74%	Chinjeolhan geumjassi (Lady Vengeance) (Sympathy for Lady Vengeance) (2005)	" South Korean director Park Chan-wook's tremendous conclusion to his Vengeance trilogy is a modern classic." — New York Magazine Posted May 5, 2006
	88%	Broken Flowers (2005)	" Murray manages, almost impossibly, to come up with still another rich variation on his Depleted Man persona, and his performance is at once enormously generous and fiercely, concisely witty." — New York Magazine Posted Dec 9, 2005
	93%	Paths of Glory (1957)	" Paths of Glory is all about that greatest of all movie subjects: power." — New York Magazine Posted Dec 9, 2005
	86%	Pride and Prejudice (2005)	" Keira's cat-smile suggests such supernal all-knowingness that, with Austen's adapted dialogue (via Deborah Moggach) tripping off her tongue, she comes off as an eighteenth-century Maureen Dowd." — New York Magazine Posted Dec 9, 2005
	72%	Syriana (2005)	" As he did in Traffic, Gaghan intertwines his disparate subplots with impeccable pacing -- his screenplay is a model of how to arrange scenes so that each one ends leaving you wanting to know more." — New York Magazine Posted Dec 9, 2005
	77%	The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)	" The film is filled with positive messages ..." — New York Magazine Posted Dec 9, 2005
	75%	In Her Shoes (2005)	" I think one reason this movie is so appealing is that it's the anti-Sex and the City-its earnestness and relative lack of rank bawdiness or cynicism seem novel in the present pop-culture atmosphere." — New York Magazine Posted Dec 9, 2005
	87%	Brokeback Mountain (2005)	" Ang Lee conveys maddening delirium rendered in the way one man's eyes gaze at another's, and then look away, and the looking-away amounts to the murder of two souls as surely as if they'd drawn guns and hit each other in the heart." — New York Magazine Posted Dec 9, 2005
	93%	Good Night, And Good Luck (2005)	" ... it telescopes -- with no loss of accuracy -- Murrow's last few fifties hurrahs as the hardest diamond in Bill Paley's 'Tiffany network.'" — New York Magazine Posted Dec 9, 2005
	71%	Thumbsucker (2005)	" Unlike so many movies in which a character changes in order to propel the plot forward, this one stops to follow up on the consequences of those changes." — New York Magazine Posted Dec 9, 2005
	83%	The Constant Gardener (2005)	" ... Ralph Fiennes gives one of the year's subtlest, yet most exciting, screen performances ..." — New York Magazine Posted Dec 9, 2005
	86%	Howl's Moving Castle (2005)	" There is giggling, belly-laughing, and gasping to be done watching Howl's Moving Castle." — New York Magazine Posted Dec 9, 2005
	76%	Crash (2004)	" It's smart, therefore, that Haggis has written such novel, precisely observed, often unpleasant characters as the ones Bullock, Dillon, and Cheadle inhabit." — New York Magazine Posted Dec 9, 2005
	61%	Jarhead (2005)	" Jarhead is utterly predictable (boys endure tough training; boys encounter another culture and are baffled), studded with first-rate performances." — New York Magazine Posted Dec 9, 2005
	80%	The Aristocrats (2005)	" ... The Aristocrats proves that sometimes you don't have to be a great filmmaker to make a great documentary." — New York Magazine Posted Dec 9, 2005
	89%	Paradise Now (2005)	" ... remarkable ..." — New York Magazine Posted Dec 9, 2005
	61%	Shopgirl (2005)	" A slim, charming, romantic story, full of intentionally mild humor about strong themes -- passion, commitment, loneliness." — New York Magazine Posted Nov 18, 2005
	87%	Tell Them Who You Are (2005)	" [A] tremendously moving documentary." — New York Magazine Posted Oct 13, 2005
	83%	Inside Deep Throat (2005)	" [A] valuable document of a cultural shift." — New York Magazine Posted Jul 18, 2005
	65%	Coach Carter (2005)	" Saved by bursts of energy and inventiveness." — New York Magazine Posted Jul 5, 2005
	60%	Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)	" Fishburne even manages to make crass violence witty." — New York Magazine Posted Jul 5, 2005
	87%	The Aviator (2004)	" The result is an admirably bumpy ride of a biopic, a rare one that leaves you feeling not safe but bracingly unsettled." — New York Magazine Posted Dec 19, 2004
	68%	Closer (2004)	" Nichols is back, his instincts for intimacy as cutting as ever..." — New York Magazine Posted Dec 11, 2004
	90%	Kinsey (2004)	" It's a new Neeson as Dr. Alfred Kinsey, all spiky-haired and harried, and he's enormously appealing in the role." — New York Magazine Posted Nov 23, 2004
	97%	The Incredibles (2004)	" The sleek beauty, crafty wit, family warmth, and impeccable slapstick suffusing The Incredibles immediately vaults it to a new, higher level of entertainment." — New York Magazine Posted Nov 3, 2004
B-	100%	Road House (1948)	— Entertainment Weekly Posted Oct 24, 2008
C+	30%	Screamers (1996)	" Based on a short story by the great nutball sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick, Screamers is more like a high-pitched rip-off of Alien." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Jul 6, 2010
C-	67%	The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)	" Harlin and Davis don't seem to realize that the results aren't refreshingly revisionist - they're eye-avertingly embarrassing." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Oct 11, 1996
D+	47%	The Banger Sisters (2002)	" Dolman's directorial debut betrays his stars." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Sep 19, 2002
D+	22%	Money Train (1995)	" A big, noisy headache of a movie..." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Nov 22, 1995
	25%	Bewitched (2005)	" What the hell is Will Ferrell doing to his career?" — New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2006
	80%	Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)	" Lucas is a brilliant technician but a poor philosopher, and his lurchingly thought-out rendering of futuristic politics prevents the entire series from achieving the greatness to which it aspires." — New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2006
	53%	Melinda and Melinda (2005)	" Neither version of Melinda, despite Mitchell�(TM)s game try at making them distinctive beyond their different hairdos, is funny or tragic enough to fully engage us; there�(TM)s no opportunity for an audience to be moved." — New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2006
	57%	The Interpreter (2005)	" Penn is terrific in his low-key doggedness." — New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2006
	85%	Batman Begins (2005)	" A nonstarter." — New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2006
	83%	Finding Neverland (2004)	" If it didn't have Johnny Depp as its star, Finding Neverland would barely pass muster as an average PBS Masterpiece Theatre entry." — New York Magazine Posted Feb 13, 2005
F	14%	Molly (1999)	" Bizarrely inept." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Jan 1, 2000

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