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HANK SARTIN
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• Chicago Reader
• Time Out
• Time Out New York

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Chicago Reader film critic.
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Total Reviews: 20


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3/6
 
"It’s frankly exhausting, and like that bag of Skittles, it won’t really satisfy your hunger. But look at all those bright, shiny colors." -- Time Out New York
Posted May 8, 2008
 
Speed Racer (2008)35%
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2/6
 
"Writer-director Eva Aridjis has a flat style that’s frankly numbing; Wood tries valiantly, but he and Donowho are both dragged down by the script." -- Time Out New York
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
The Favor (2008)17%
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"Jason Statham uses his smoldering charisma to great effect." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 16, 2008
 
The Transporter (2002)53%
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2/6
 
"A police thriller that’s desperate to be gritty, Street Kings boasts a protagonist so dumb it takes him an hour of screen time to realize a 'plot twist' we assumed was a given." -- Time Out New York
Posted Apr 10, 2008
 
Street Kings (2008)33%
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3/6
 
"After the shrewd, in-depth analysis of No Direction Home, we expect more from Scorsese than two hours of perfectly framed close-ups of Mick." -- Time Out New York
Posted Apr 3, 2008
 
Shine a Light (2008)86%
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"While Phillippe does a creditable job and Cornish is suitably torn by her divided loyalties to two men, Tatum and especially Gordon-Levitt are utterly wasted, used like extras when either of their stories seems interesting enough for a film of its own." -- Time Out New York
Posted Mar 27, 2008
 
Stop-Loss (2008)65%
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2/6
 
"The eternal battle between the hot-but-arrogant blond and the hot-and-likable brunet continues on new turf in the almost gleefully bad Never Back Down." -- Time Out New York
Posted Mar 14, 2008
 
Never Back Down (2008)25%
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"If [director] Bharat Nalluri can’t always sustain the fizz, it’s certainly not Adams’s fault; this is another eye-catching performance from the actor, who seems to be specializing in playing dumb." -- Time Out New York
Posted Mar 7, 2008
 
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)76%
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Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
August Rush (2007)37%
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3/6
 
"In legal terms, Mad Money isn’t a felony; it’s more like a misdemeanor." -- Time Out New York
Posted Jan 17, 2008
 
Mad Money (2008)20%
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"Eigeman has been in training for this kind of thing for years, but the pleasant surprise is Janssen, who shows a gift for clever dialogue. This is light fare, but it’s smart, enjoyable light fare." -- Time Out
Posted Aug 9, 2007
 
The Treatment (2007)68%
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"For the Broadway babies out there, ShowBusiness will make you want to schedule a trip to the Great White Way." -- Time Out
Posted Jul 12, 2007
 
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (2007)88%
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"Individual sequences generate an eerie tension that's always deflated, creating a jarring stop-and-go rhythm, and the atmospheric trickery never strays beyond a lot of smoke and mirrors." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Jun 6, 2007
 
Signs (2002)73%
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"All the uplift could easily get cloying, but director John Lee Hancock knows how to keep things in control, and the whole is surprisingly satisfying." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Mar 26, 2007
 
The Rookie (2002)82%
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"In their quest for the youth market, Hollywood hacks often dress up their old script ideas in baggy pants and backward baseball caps, but I hope American kids aren't dumb enough to swallow this awful extreme-sports adventure." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Mar 6, 2007
 
Extreme Ops (2002)6%
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"I expected this to be much funnier: Latifah coasts on her charm, and Fallon seems incapable of playing an actual character." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Feb 27, 2007
 
Taxi (2004)11%
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"Every joke is stretched to the breaking point, and no one seems to be having any fun." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Jan 8, 2007
 
The Whole Ten Yards (2004)5%
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"Nothing's quite so painful as failed comedy, and this atrocity is equivalent to a compound fracture." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Jan 5, 2007
 
National Lampoon's Gold Diggers (2004)0%
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"Romantic comedy ought to have some romance and laughs, but this extraordinarily flat effort has neither." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Jan 3, 2007
 
Serving Sara (2002)5%
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"Director Zak Tucker is a bit too fond of jump cuts as signifiers of edginess. Still, when the material doesn't get in the way he's pretty good at getting across the emotional content." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Aug 10, 2006
 
Poster Boy (2006)22%

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