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Hank Sartin

Hank Sartin

Agrees with the Tomatometer 80% of the time.

Biography:
Chicago Reader film critic.
Publications:
Chicago Reader , Time Out , Time Out New York , Time Out Sydney
Total Reviews:
362

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
1/6 13% The Ugly Truth (2009) Time Out Chicago
Posted Jan 14, 2010
1/6 30% Underworld: The Rise of the Lycans (2009) " Take our advice: Buy a rubber mallet and strike yourself repeatedly until you start to black out. Same basic feeling." — Time Out New York
Posted Jan 29, 2009
1/6 33% Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) " The Black Friday setting suggests that this was meant to be a holiday release, but it's not hard to see why the studio dumped this suckfest in January." — Time Out New York
Posted Jan 21, 2009
1/5 5% Good Luck Chuck (2007) " We've never gotten the appeal of Cook, and this did nothing to explain it." — Time Out Chicago
Posted Feb 8, 2012
1/5 58% Paper Heart (2009) Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
1/5 64% Harry Brown (2010) Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
1/5 30% Underworld: The Rise of the Lycans (2009) Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
1/5 33% Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
1/5 64% Adam (2009) Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
1/5 7% Babylon A.D. (2008) Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
1/5 81% Panique au village (A Town Called Panic) (2009) Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
1/5 13% The Spy Next Door (2010) Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
1/5 6% Who's Your Caddy? (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
1/5 24% The Life Before Her Eyes (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
1/5 36% Sydney White (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
1/5 4% In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2006) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
1/5 40% The Bucket List (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
1/5 19% The Back-up Plan (2010) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
1/5 25% Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha (2008) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
1/5 7% Waiting For Dublin (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
1/5 25% The Narrows (2008) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
1/5 1% Daddy Day Camp (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
1/5 13% The Ugly Truth (2009) Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
1/5 16% Revolver (2005) Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
1/5 21% Leap Year (2010) Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
1/5 33% Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) Time Out Chicago
Posted Sep 22, 2011
1/5 13% The Ugly Truth (2009) Time Out New York
Posted Sep 22, 2011
1/5 25% The Narrows (2008) Time Out Chicago
Posted Sep 16, 2011
1/5 6% All About Steve (2009) " A talented director might have made Bullock seem like a comic genius, but Phil Traill has no control over tone, leaving the audience unsure whether to laugh or cry." — Time Out New York
Posted Sep 9, 2009
1/5 25% The Narrows (2008) " Imagine Mean Streets with less grit, unconvincing casting and none of Scorsese's tortured Catholic guilt." — Time Out New York
Posted Jun 17, 2009
74% Abril Despedaçado (Behind the Sun) (2001) " The appearance of circus performers in any film not by Fellini usually bodes ill, and it does so here." — Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 1, 2010
42% Nabbeun namja (Bad Guy) (2001) " The audience is subjected to a series of emotional contortions, encouraged to experience them like a voyeur, and then scolded for doing so." — Chicago Reader
Posted Feb 8, 2010
10% Bad Company (2002) " Director Joel Schumacher does a fair job of managing the chaos, but after a while you get tired of being dragged from setup to setup." — Chicago Reader
Posted Feb 5, 2010
14% The Young Unknowns (2000) " This bleak little drama started as a play, and I'd bet that even onstage it felt contrived." — Chicago Reader
Posted Jul 20, 2009
74% Signs (2002) " 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
8% Extreme Ops (2002) " 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
10% Taxi (2004) " 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
4% The Whole Ten Yards (2003) " Every joke is stretched to the breaking point, and no one seems to be having any fun." — Chicago Reader
Posted Jan 8, 2007
0% National Lampoon's Gold Diggers (2004) " Nothing's quite so painful as failed comedy, and this atrocity is equivalent to a compound fracture." — Chicago Reader
Posted Jan 5, 2007
5% Serving Sara (2002) " Romantic comedy ought to have some romance and laughs, but this extraordinarily flat effort has neither." — Chicago Reader
Posted Jan 3, 2007
26% Poster Boy (2006) " 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
2/6 34% Not Easily Broken (2009) " That's a reasonable message, but it might feel more resonant if the script were a little fairer to both sexes." — Time Out
Posted Apr 17, 2009
2/6 34% Alien Trespass (2009) " All that's missing from this would-be spoof are laughs." — Time Out New York
Posted Apr 1, 2009
2/6 17% The Haunting in Connecticut (2009) " Cornwell delivers shock-cut scares with metronomic regularity; all you can do is sit numbly, waiting for the next pummeling." — Time Out Chicago
Posted Apr 1, 2009
2/6 72% The Great Buck Howard (2009) " The younger Hanks is a blander version of his father, without any sense of the elder's hidden zaniness; Malkovich, unsurprisingly, is quite convincing as a man whose ego surrounds him like an enveloping fog." — Time Out New York
Posted Mar 18, 2009
2/6 22% Push (2009) " Paul McGuigan's jittery editing and shaky cameras make the action confusing rather than thrilling, and nothing can save this movie from the screenplay's nearly incomprehensible twists." — Time Out New York
Posted Feb 11, 2009
2/6 34% Not Easily Broken (2009) " [Has] a reasonable message, but it might feel more resonant if the script were a little more fair and balanced in the battle of the sexes." — Time Out New York
Posted Jan 7, 2009
2/6 16% Max Payne (2008) " No one actually cares if the story adds up in a movie based on a video game. Audiences expect to have their nerve endings stimulated (or frayed), as they will be by the aggressive, bass-heavy sound mix." — Time Out New York
Posted Oct 15, 2008
2/6 31% Nights in Rodanthe (2008) " Nicholas Sparks's novels are to Harlequin romances as international coffees are to Nescafé: Marketed as having a little dash of class, they're still ersatz java." — Time Out New York
Posted Sep 24, 2008
2/6 36% Igor (2008) " A few inspired bits can't save this piece of candy from its own gooey center." — Time Out New York
Posted Sep 17, 2008
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