ROTTEN TOMATOES: Ken Hanke - Rotten Tomatoes

Official Websites:
Mountain Xpress (Ashe…

KEN HANKE

Agrees with the Tomatometer 80% of the time.

Biography: Author of books KEN RUSSELL'S FILMS, CHARLIE CHAN AT THE MOVIES, A CRITICAL GUIDE TO HORROR FILM SERIES, TIM BURTON: AN UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY OF THE FILMMAKER. Associate Editor: SCARLET STREET magazine. Movie reviewer/movie coordinator, MOUNTAIN XPRESS. Member Southeastern Film Critics Association.

Favorites: TOMMY THE RULING CLASS LOVE ME TONIGHT MOULIN ROUGE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN

Publications: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Critics' Group: Southeastern Film Critics Association

Total Reviews: 1696
Total QuickRatings: 2069

Location: Asheville NC

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

# a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

Results for All Genres

Showing 1 - 50 of 1696

Previous | Next

Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date (default)

Fresh 4/5	Fresh 80%	Black Rain (1989)	" Powerfully effective, and it addresses the issue of the national scarring of the bombings in a way that no one else ever has." Posted Nov 18, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 94%	An Education (2009)	" A good deal of this works because of Mulligan, who deserves every accolade and Audrey Hepburn comparison she's received for her performance." Posted Nov 18, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Rotten 37%	2012 (2009)	" Emmerich's desire to cram as many hairbreadth escapes and eternities of suspense as possible into one movie ultimately feels more like an eternity plain and simple." Posted Nov 18, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Rotten 59%	Pirate Radio (2009)	" I fell in love with it and have yet to fall out of love with it. I don't expect I shall. This is a movie I suspect I will only come to treasure more with the passage of time." Posted Nov 18, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Rotten 54%	The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)	" A likable little movie that feels more indie than most indies, isn't afraid to shamble along, and, sadly, seems oblivious to the fact that it's in need of a bigger ending." Posted Nov 12, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 18%	The Fourth Kind (2009)	" *The first line in The Fourth Kind* has Milla Jovovich calling herself an 'actress,' so we know right away the film is lying.**" Posted Nov 12, 2009
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 55%	Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009)	" It's a film so determined to make you notice it, that it comes across like an obnoxious child screaming, 'Look at me!'" Posted Nov 12, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 82%	Thirst (2009)	" What sets Park's film apart from the standard vampire picture has more to do with its tone, characterizations, and its strange blend of lyricism and pitch-black comedy." Posted Nov 4, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 65%	Coco Before Chanel (2009)	" Fontaine manages to create a film that captures both the essence of its subject and the times and circumstances that helped to shape her." Posted Nov 4, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 69%	Paris (2009)	" It may occasionally seem a little too facile, but all in all the movie scores more points than not and becomes a film of genuine merit." Posted Nov 4, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 80%	Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009)	" Calling it a documentary is something of a misnomer. It's both more and less than that because, let's face it, the film is the official party line." Posted Nov 4, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 86%	The Baader Meinhof Complex (2009)	" A richly detailed, emotionally complex, character-filled examination." Posted Oct 31, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Rotten 20%	Amelia (2009)	" In one fell swoop, Mira Nair and company have set the genre back 64 years. That's probably some kind of accomplishment." Posted Oct 31, 2009
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 45%	Saw VI (2009)	" Saw movies and Halloween go together like ho and hum." Posted Oct 31, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 83%	Paranormal Activity (2009)	" Works better than it has any right to." Posted Oct 31, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 77%	It Might Get Loud (2009)	" *It might not snag Davis Guggenheim another Oscar, but his It Might Get Loud* proves that Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White make for livelier viewing than Al Gore.**" Posted Oct 25, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 92%	S�raphine (2008)	" Where the film scores -- and scores very highly -- is in the characterizations of S�raphine and Uhde, both of whom emerge as wholly formed complex creations." Posted Oct 25, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 82%	Whip It (2009)	" Its refreshingly unjaded look at humanity is not something I'm prepared to sneer at." Posted Oct 25, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 89%	Zombieland (2009)	" The overall results are savvier and cheekier than not." Posted Oct 25, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Rotten 56%	The Invention of Lying (2009)	" One of the best and most thought-provoking American comedies to come along in some considerable time." Posted Oct 25, 2009
Rotten .5/5	Rotten 11%	The Stepfather (2009)	" What is there to be said about this utterly worthless, addle-brained waste of 101 minutes except that it's an utterly worthless, addle-brained waste of 101 minutes?" Posted Oct 25, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 70%	Where the Wild Things Are (2009)	" It's all very clever and very creative. It's intellectually stimulating. But how much of it actually had any emotional impact?" Posted Oct 25, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 82%	Pierrot Le Fou (1965)	" An idiosyncratic work by a filmmaker trotting out his obsessions of the moment and committing them to film without much regard for actual meaning." Posted Sep 30, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Fresh 75%	Humpday (2009)	" Possibilities are at least flirted with, if not realized, the results waver between interesting and tedious, only to come up with the inevitable lemon of a resolution." Posted Sep 30, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 64%	Basquiat (1996)	" *Schnabel made his* film about Basquiat, which carries its own validation. He's also made something of a work of art in its own right.**" Posted Sep 30, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 75%	Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)	" If the film entertains you and outrages you, it's done its job remarkably well." Posted Sep 30, 2009
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 27%	Pandorum (2009)	" It's moderately amusing if you're in the mood, but it's incredibly lacking in invention." Posted Sep 30, 2009
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 28%	Fame (2009)	" I think the term 're-imagining' is code for 'dumbing down.' 'Re-imagining' may sound better, but the results are unchanged." Posted Sep 30, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 93%	Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2009)	" You'll get more bang, boobs and blood for your buck here than with any other show in town." Posted Sep 22, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 87%	Timecrimes (2008)	" That rarest of rare things: an intelligent time-travel movie that actually holds together on closer examination." Posted Sep 22, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 89%	And the Ship Sails On (1984)	" *For a movie that revels in its very artificiality, And the Ship Sails On* possesses an astonishing emotional resonance in its last scenes.**" Posted Sep 22, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 70%	My One and Only (2009)	" You don't have to care anything about George Hamilton in order to enjoy this surprisingly entertaining little movie that will remind you why you once liked Ren�e Zellweger." Posted Sep 22, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 83%	Bright Star (2009)	" A little too genteel for my tastes. Or rather, it would be were it not for Paul Schneider's complex and often refreshingly rude performance." Posted Sep 22, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 75%	Cold Souls (2009)	" Any work that purports to be about the nature of the soul is pretty high in the pretension realm. In this case, it's also one of the most fascinating movies of 2009." Posted Sep 22, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 45%	Jennifer's Body (2009)	" Never as frightening as it should be, and it's certainly never as hip and funny as it would like to be, but neither is it a disaster." Posted Sep 22, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 76%	The Informant! (2009)	" *Whatever else The Informant!* is, it's odd. No, it's more than odd. It's strange -- at least for a movie sent out into wide release as a mainstream offering.**" Posted Sep 22, 2009
Fresh 4/5	N/A	Otello (1987)	" Big, sweeping and gorgeous to look at. Scarcely a minute of it is dull." Posted Sep 16, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 94%	Shoot the Piano Player (1960)	" One of those rare movies that you're sorry to see end." Posted Sep 16, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 84%	Soul Power (2009)	" It's hard not to wish that maybe there was a little less of Muhammad Ali promoting himself and a little more of the concert." Posted Sep 16, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Rotten 56%	9 (2009)	" *Shane Acker brings a lot of visual panache to his film 9. Unfortunately, it's all one* flavor of panache, housed in a film that's entirely in one tone.**" Posted Sep 16, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 23%	Sorority Row (2009)	" Ruined by Hendler's pointlessly artsy direction, a stab at postmodern snarkiness and an unconscionable 101-minute running time." Posted Sep 16, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Fresh 62%	Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself (2009)	" Lurches around for nearly two hours before concluding that all its heroine needed all along was a good (and hunky) man and Jesus." Posted Sep 16, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Fresh 60%	Paper Heart (2009)	" An uninvolving simulacrum of romance between a pair of mumbling, inarticulate boobs who have no discernible personalities apart from a shared taste in hoodies." Posted Sep 9, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 65%	Adam (2009)	" An undeniably pleasant film about an unusual subject that just happens to be topped off by a really good performance from the massively underrated Hugh Dancy." Posted Sep 9, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 85%	World's Greatest Dad (2009)	" Bobcat Goldthwait has established himself as a unique, if not prolific, voice in filmmaking." Posted Sep 9, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 63%	Extract (2009)	" Unusual in the realm of modern comedy in that it's about adults and aimed at adults." Posted Sep 9, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Rotten 29%	Gamer (2009)	" Perhaps the most deliriously demented film of the year. I say that with honest admiration for the deliriously demented." Posted Sep 9, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 100%	Rear Window (1954)	" As close to 'perfect' as a film is likely to get." Posted Sep 2, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 24%	Patch Adams (1998)	" Indulges to the hilt every obnoxious, hyperactive, oh-what-I-wouldn't-give-for-a-tranquilizer-gun aspect of Robin Williams' performing style." Posted Sep 2, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Rotten 54%	The Stoning of Soraya M. (2009)	" The film does have a certain crude power. But that's part of the problem with it: It's too crude." Posted Sep 2, 2009

Results for All Genres

Showing 1 - 50 of 1696

Previous | Next

Sort by Rating:
Sort results by this critic's rating. This option is only available for critics with a rating system (4 star, letter grade, 1-10, etc.)
Sort by T-meter:
Sort results by the Tomatometer (percentage of critics recommending a certain movie)

5/5	Citizen KaneOffsite
4/4	The Indian TombOffsite
4.5/5	Two LoversOffsite
4/5	DuplicityOffsite
3.5/5	Monsters vs. AliensOffsite
3/5	WatchmenOffsite
2.5/5	FightingOffsite
2/5	Fast & FuriousOffsite
1.5/5	OrphanOffsite
1/5	The Last House on the LeftOffsite
.5/5	Miss MarchOffsite

5/5	Pirate RadioOffsite
5/5	Rear WindowOffsite
4/4	The Indian TombOffsite
5/5	Inglourious BasterdsOffsite
5/5	Boudu Saved from DrowningOffsite
5/5	Fanny and AlexanderOffsite
5/5	TetroOffsite
5/5	Whatever WorksOffsite
5/5	Easy VirtueOffsite
5/5	The Brothers BloomOffsite

0/4	EnoughOffsite
.5/5	The StepfatherOffsite
.5/5	Post GradOffsite
.5/5	Transformers: Revenge of the FallenOffsite
.5/5	Land of the LostOffsite
.5/5	Next Day AirOffsite
.5/5	C Me DanceOffsite
.5/5	Miss MarchOffsite
.5/5	Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-LiOffsite
.5/5	The Day the Earth Stood StillOffsite

KEN HANKE

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

Sort by Rating:

Sort by T-meter:

Best to Worst Sampling

Best Reviewed

Worst Reviewed

Sponsored Links