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Richard Knight

Richard Knight

Agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

Publications:
Knight at the Movies , Windy City Times
Critics' Group:
Chicago Film Critics Association
Total Reviews:
253

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
12% Love Ranch (2010) " Familiar to the point of blandness. But then again, every time The Mirren walks into view ... " — Windy City Times
Posted Jul 6, 2010
35% Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) " The picture seems like it would be perfect Saturday matinee fodder but it's missing the exhilaration of many of its cheesier forebears." — Windy City Times
Posted Jun 15, 2010
15% Sex and the City 2 (2010) " It might be time for Carrie & Company to hang up the ManoloBlahniks." — Windy City Times
Posted Jun 15, 2010
37% The City of Your Final Destination (2010) " Among other problems, the material has maddening character and situation gaps that require one to suspend disbelief." — Windy City Times
Posted Jun 15, 2010
15% A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) " A bland, unncessary return to Freddyland" — Windy City Times
Posted May 11, 2010
19% The Back-up Plan (2010) " It seems to have been filmed and hermetically sealed yearsago and only now, belatedly found on a shelf and trotted out. " — Windy City Times
Posted May 11, 2010
28% Clash of the Titans (2010) " A sexless, joyless remake of a trashy guilty pleasure." — Windy City Times
Posted Apr 12, 2010
28% Remember Me (2010) " calculated and ham handed" — Windy City Times
Posted Mar 17, 2010
18% Valentine's Day (2010) " A perfect movie personification of the holiday -- crass, commercial and guaranteed to make a zillion dollars off the love struck masses. Ugh." — Windy City Times
Posted Feb 16, 2010
60% Frozen (2010) " Both the audience and the characters are stuck in their chairs waiting and waiting and waiting and..." — Windy City Times
Posted Feb 8, 2010
26% The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2009) " This is not the galvanizing, deep fried melodrama of Tennessee Williams at his height but rather, the low fat version." — Windy City Times
Posted Feb 8, 2010
37% Nine (2009) " Daniel Day-Lewis' miscasting throws the entire movie off kilter and one is left to contemplate the holes in the material." — Windy City Times
Posted Feb 8, 2010
53% Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) " The real nightmare before Christmas - way too scary for the kiddies and not nearly warm enough for audiences of all ages." — Windy City Times
Posted Nov 10, 2009
21% Amelia (2009) " Reduces the story of this feminine icon into a typical Hollywood romantic triangle, albeit one with some beautifully staged aerial set pieces." — Windy City Times
Posted Nov 3, 2009
63% Coco avant Chanel (Coco Before Chanel) (2009) " As essayed by Audrey Tautou through Anne Fontaine's lens, this Chanel is dry as toast and the antithesis of her sensual sartorial creations." — Windy City Times
Posted Nov 3, 2009
82% Bright Star (2009) " I wanted to love it because it's so damn literary and exquisitely put together but ultimately it felt like a very long two hours." — Windy City Times
Posted Nov 3, 2009
7% Whiteout (2009) " Kate Beckinsale, adrift in a blizzard of cliches, doesn't have enough star presence or her Stevie Nicks black leather vampire drag to keep audiences from drifting away. Bland and predictable." — Windy City Times
Posted Sep 19, 2009
13% The Ugly Truth (2009) " This lackluster, stereotypical movie attempts to update its shopworn formula with a stream of four letter words and sexually crude phrases in Judd Apatow fashion but ends up turning off everyone in the process." — Windy City Times
Posted Aug 26, 2009
43% The Proposal (2009) " The movie, duly enjoyable, joins a long list of Bullock's previous audience pleasing romance-centric films. For fans of Bullock and Ryan Reynolds' spectacular abs only." — Windy City Times
Posted Jul 1, 2009
33% Terminator Salvation (2009) " More machine than movie. Sleek, human-like but ultimately cold steel and unfeeling." — Windy City Times
Posted Jun 6, 2009
27% Land of the Lost (2009) " A big budget, limp comedic exercise in male adolescence." — Windy City Times
Posted Jun 6, 2009
78% The Hangover (2009) " The Polaroids of the bachelor party shown during the end titles deliver the genuine laughs the movie has promised; they're better than the entire movie that preceded it." — Windy City Times
Posted Jun 6, 2009
56% The Soloist (2009) " Too many notes." — Windy City Times
Posted May 15, 2009
37% X-Men Origins - Wolverine (2009) " Such a blandly predictable sci-fi blockbuster that one can focus on different parts of Hugh Jackman's extraordinary physique without fear of losing out on a single plot point." — Windy City Times
Posted May 15, 2009
37% Angels & Demons (2009) " Oh Sister, I have such doubt. Doubt about an audience getting conned into taking seriously such a rickety piece of movie junk like this." — Windy City Times
Posted May 15, 2009
64% Duplicity (2009) " I can't believe I'm writing this in a dumbed down age at the movies but Duplicity is a film that's too smart for its own good." — Windy City Times
Posted Mar 20, 2009
25% Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) " Isla Fisher does her best with a shopworn, shopped out premise." — Windy City Times
Posted Mar 7, 2009
65% Watchmen (2009) " The film could have easily lost an hour on its running time." — Windy City Times
Posted Mar 7, 2009
58% Taken (2009) " This silly hokum is so full of plot holes that it truly lives up to its title." — Windy City Times
Posted Feb 10, 2009
61% Valkyrie (2008) " Stripped of the over the top special effects that have driven Cruise's most successful vehicles Valkyrie doesn't offer much in its place." — Windy City Times
Posted Dec 28, 2008
26% Seven Pounds (2008) " It's a movie about death and taxes (yes, really), a phony baloney tearjerker, one of those "noble" dramas that movie stars love filled with characters heavy with the weight of regret." — Windy City Times
Posted Dec 21, 2008
92% Frost/Nixon (2008) " I've seen one too many movies about the disgraced president to find the material compelling." — Windy City Times
Posted Dec 21, 2008
88% Bolt (2008) " Disney Lite - thin and familiar but love that digital animation!" — Windy City Times
Posted Nov 29, 2008
49% Twilight (2008) " Basically Rebel Without a Cause with fangs -- except no one in it is nearly as talented as James Dean or Natalie Wood was." — Windy City Times
Posted Nov 29, 2008
39% Tru Loved (2008) " Wade's extremely low budget film is hampered by badly recorded dialogue and a script that tries to cram too many issues and characters in." — Windy City Times
Posted Oct 30, 2008
53% City of Ember (2008) " If you've ever dreamed of seeing Brazil, Dark City, City of Lost Children, or the Quay Brothers animated, Kafkaesque classic Street of Crocodiles reimagined for kids now you have your chance." — Windy City Times
Posted Oct 13, 2008
43% What We Do Is Secret (2007) " Grossman's movie never delves much below the surface." — Windy City Times
Posted Sep 4, 2008
40% Hancock (2008) " A strange hybrid of a movie; a film that never congeals and is the first misstep that I can recall Smith making since he refused to kiss Eric Thal on screen in Six Degrees of Separation 15 years ago." — Windy City Times
Posted Jul 7, 2008
14% The Love Guru (2008) " Both the tissue thin character and the movie are hardly sustainable beyond an SNL sketch which makes the 90 minute running time almost as interminable as one of those Deepak Chopra sanctimonious self-help tapes." — Windy City Times
Posted Jun 24, 2008
18% The Happening (2008) " If Shyamalan wanted to commit career suicide he couldn't have chosen a more likely vehicle than this laugh inducing 'thriller.'" — Windy City Times
Posted Jun 15, 2008
56% Flawless (2008) " The picture is mildly entertaining, aided strongly by the retro period and Caine's authoritative performance. As for Moore, the script doesn't offer her much - certainly not the intensity that brought her equal parts fame and derision." — Windy City Times
Posted May 22, 2008
16% Untraceable (2008) " The movie's run of the mill stuff - fairly entertaining but not particularly inventive - with the standard twists and turns. Yet another film featuring a cute but horrific serial killer fixated on a beautiful and intelligent female law officer." — Windy City Times
Posted May 22, 2008
35% Vantage Point (2008) " To fall for Vantage Point you have to throw away any connection to reality." — Windy City Times
Posted May 22, 2008
30% Chaos Theory (2008) " The movie lives up to its title. How else to explain the random switch from such a dizzy set up with such promise to a typical, by the numbers relationship drama?" — Windy City Times
Posted May 22, 2008
50% Smart People (2008) " Audiences who love seeing cranky, emotionally blocked characters find a chance to bloom will be happy to endure the withering onscreen insults but I didn't have much use for these dyspeptic folks and was happy to see them go." — Windy City Times
Posted May 22, 2008
47% My Blueberry Nights (2007) " My Blueberry Nights at any length doesn't begin to answer the question why Jones, who seems nice in a bland, girl next door way, would ever be tapped to star in a movie." — Windy City Times
Posted May 22, 2008
66% The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) " If this is a movie for children than I can only guess the filmmakers had Donald Rumsfeld's grandkids in mind when they made it" — Windy City Times
Posted May 22, 2008
48% La MISSION (2010) " An entertaining, sincere effort livened by the magnetic performance of Bratt." — Windy City Times
Posted Jul 9, 2010
93% The Kids Are All Right (2010) " One of those small cinematic miracles that movie audiences hope and pray for. That it makes a powerful social argument in favor of LGBT families without breaking a sweat in the process is a wonderful bonus." — Windy City Times
Posted Jul 9, 2010
80% I Am Love (2010) " A cinematic repast so delicious that one can only stand back in awe at its sheer artistry and hail it as a masterpiece." — Windy City Times
Posted Jul 6, 2010
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