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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: 1605
Total QuickRatings: 2081

Location: Asheville NC

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Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 66%	Public Enemies (2009)	" A strangely distant, quasi-demythification of the tale of John Dillinger that keeps threatening to turn into a truly fine movie without ever quite pulling it off." Posted Jul 8, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 89%	Moon (2009)	" Raises all the right and most interesting questions about what it means to be human in the manner of some of the best science fiction." Posted Jul 8, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Rotten 51%	Cheri (2009)	" A story that's as fragile as petals dropping from a flower." Posted Jul 8, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Rotten 46%	Whatever Works (2009)	" *If Annie Hall* put forth the idea of art making right that which couldn't be made right in life, Whatever Works is that idea put into practice.**" Posted Jul 8, 2009
Fresh 4/5	N/A	The Private Life of Don Juan (1934)	" It really is a nice change to see Fairbanks in a movie where his activities don't resemble those of a hopped-up cokehead." Posted Jun 30, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Rotten 46%	The Proposal (2009)	" Probably won't do you a permanent injury should you come into contact with it." Posted Jun 30, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 44%	My Sister's Keeper (2009)	" What might have been a pretty heady work quickly gives way to shameless manipulation and a screenplay that's both sloppy and contrived." Posted Jun 30, 2009
Rotten .5/5	Rotten 19%	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)	" Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen may not be the worst movie ever made, but with its 150-minute running time, it very likely is the most obnoxious." Posted Jun 30, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 100%	The Man Who Would Be King (1975)	" The film is supposed to be fun -- despite its ending -- and even that is an interesting departure from the �ber-serious tone of most epics of the time." Posted Jun 17, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 98%	Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009)	" In the end, we get the delight of a portrait of some guys who never packed it in, and the endorsement of the indomitability of the human spirit." Posted Jun 17, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Rotten 50%	Easy Virtue (2009)	" *Stephan Elliott is back with a vengeance. He's also back with a movie that's not only a worthy successor to Priscilla, it may be even better.*" Posted Jun 17, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 50%	The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)	" Apparently, the movie needed remaking with Arabic numerals, which is probably as good a reason as any." Posted Jun 17, 2009
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 11%	My Life in Ruins (2009)	" That they should learn Greek dancing from a Mexican-born actor in a film produced by 20th Century Fox is somehow less ironic than just about right for a movie like this." Posted Jun 10, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Rotten 55%	Lymelife (2009)	" Lymelife doesn't bring much new insight to bear on the topic of the horrors of suburban existence." Posted Jun 10, 2009
Rotten .5/5	Rotten 28%	Land of the Lost (2009)	" The ideal viewer would be, I guess, a 5-year-old who still thinks dinosaurs and urine jokes are cool, but realizes they pale in comparison with breasts and gropings." Posted Jun 10, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 94%	Goodbye Solo (2009)	" You'll realize you're in the presence of something very special." Posted Jun 10, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 78%	Brick (2006)	" That rarest of things: a movie called 'unique' that actually is." Posted Jun 3, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 89%	Everlasting Moments (2009)	" One of those strange movies -- like the films of Satyajit Ray -- that one seems to inhabit rather than watch." Posted Jun 3, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 93%	Drag Me To Hell (2009)	" *Think of this as Night of the Demon* on amphetamines as reimagined by the Three Stooges.**" Posted Jun 3, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 62%	The Brothers Bloom (2009)	" One of those movies that I wanted to see again the moment it was over -- and had this been anything other than a press screening where that was not possible, I would have." Posted Jun 3, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 97%	Up (2009)	" If it sounds like I can't find anything in Up to be curmudgeonly about, that's because I really can't." Posted May 27, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 32%	Terminator Salvation (2009)	" You wonder why everyone isn't so eaten up with malaise that they don't just sit down and forget about the whole thing." Posted May 27, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 44%	Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)	" This sequel's greatest claim to fame lies in turning its innocuously painless original into an overblown bore." Posted May 27, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 93%	The Magic Flute (1975)	" What Bergman does is to convey the actual magic of theater at its best." Posted May 20, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 77%	Valentino: the Last Emperor (2009)	" What we're left with is a touching love story, an outsized spectacle and a glorious bit of color in an often all too drab world." Posted May 20, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 67%	Is Anybody There? (2009)	" What we have here is a three-and-a-half-star movie boosted into the realm of four-and-a-half stars on the strength of one person: Michael Caine." Posted May 20, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 37%	Angels & Demons (2009)	" As amusing melodrama, it's enjoyable flapdoodle." Posted May 20, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 100%	Drunken Angel (1948)	" Brilliant filmmaking that remains powerful and moving today." Posted May 13, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 89%	Sin Nombre (2009)	" I only wish Fukunaga was as good a writer as he is a director -- but as this is his debut feature, I'll cut some slack on that score." Posted May 13, 2009
Rotten .5/5	Rotten 18%	Next Day Air (2009)	" Guy Ritchie never made anything this bad and boring on the worst Madonna-influenced, crypto-Kabbalistic day of his life." Posted May 13, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 95%	Star Trek (2009)	" It has some significant flaws and missteps, but on its own merits, it's entertaining -- and in one instance, it's even a little more than that." Posted May 13, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 76%	Shall We Kiss? (2008)	" Feels like not only a small masterpiece, but like an object lesson for everything that's wrong with the American romantic comedy." Posted May 6, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Rotten 36%	X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)	" It's not a great movie (though it's better than the third entry), and I doubt I'll ever feel compelled to see it again, but I enjoyed it well enough while it was on-screen." Posted May 6, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 28%	Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)	" Tired slapstick, an air of cheesiness, some bad '80s pop songs and spurious emotion -- at the service of an unlikable screenplay with a downright nasty tone." Posted May 6, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 74%	Tokyo! (2009)	" *With the three-director -- Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, Bong Joon-ho -- multistory film Tokyo!, the first really exciting piece of filmmaking of 2009 comes to town.*" Posted Apr 29, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Fresh 88%	Roxanne (1987)	" I'd call it reasonably successful, but I can't get excited about it." Posted Apr 29, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 91%	Chimes at Midnight (1967)	" *Perhaps the only one of Welles' films that can really give Citizen Kane* a run for its money as the filmmaker's finest work.**" Posted Apr 29, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Rotten 55%	The Soloist (2009)	" After finally seeing the film, there's no longer much mystery as to why the studio pulled it from awards season." Posted Apr 29, 2009
Rotten 2.5/5	Rotten 41%	Fighting (2009)	" Most damaging to the film is perhaps its futile insistence that it's somehow more than a bargain-basement B picture." Posted Apr 29, 2009
Rotten 1/5	Rotten 18%	Obsessed (2009)	" *I don't mind that Obsessed, is mindless, overheated, undercooked trash. I mind that it's boring* mindless, overheated, undercooked trash.**" Posted Apr 29, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 91%	The Lodger (1926)	" See it and see the birth of one of film's greatest directors." Posted Apr 22, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 84%	Cherry Blossoms (2009)	" A bare reading of the plot doesn't actually do justice to the subtle beauty of this exquisite little film." Posted Apr 22, 2009
Rotten 3/5	Rotten 15%	The Informers (2009)	" *I don't find The Informers* to be without interest -- unlike most critics -- but neither do I find it successful enough to recommend it.**" Posted Apr 22, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 62%	Crank High Voltage (2009)	" What you really get here is the same movie all over again -- only more so." Posted Apr 22, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 85%	State of Play (2009)	" A solid, intense, entertaining work that dares to ask its viewers to think while they watch." Posted Apr 22, 2009
Fresh 3.5/5	Fresh 83%	Iron Horse (1924)	" Surprising by virtue of how much of Ford's mature work is already in evidence." Posted Apr 15, 2009
Fresh 4/5	Fresh 73%	The Great Buck Howard (2009)	" By no means a great film, but it makes up in modest pleasantness what it lacks in weightiness." Posted Apr 15, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 13%	Dragonball: Evolution (2009)	" Dragonball's value -- such as it is -- is that it's too dumb to actively hate." Posted Apr 15, 2009
Rotten 2/5	Rotten 46%	Hannah Montana The Movie (2009)	" 'Real life' as envisioned by folks whose idea of such was obviously cobbled together from the more backward examples of 1950s sitcoms." Posted Apr 15, 2009
Fresh 4.5/5	Fresh 100%	The 400 Blows (1959)	" Alive with the joy of filmmaking for its own sake." Posted Apr 7, 2009

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