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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: 1703
Total QuickRatings: 2067

Location: Asheville NC

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Fresh 5/5	Fresh 92%	Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)	" Witty, quirky, individual -- and the result is just possibly the most pure fun you'll have at a movie all year." Posted Dec 2, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 60%	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 5/5	Fresh 88%	Inglourious Basterds (2009)	" *A sprawling feast of a movie that's by turns funny, exciting, outrageous and just plain exhilarating, Inglourious Basterds* actually is the event it was touted to be.**" Posted Aug 26, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 67%	Tetro (2009)	" A rare cinematic experience on every level. There's been nothing like it on theater screens for a very long time, and it serves as a reminder of that fact." Posted Jul 29, 2009
Fresh 5/5	Rotten 47%	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 5/5	Rotten 51%	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
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 64%	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 98%	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
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 75%	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
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 62%	The Reader (2008)	" Demanding? Yes. But that's also why it's such a worthwhile accomplishment." Posted Dec 31, 2008
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 93%	Slumdog Millionaire (2008)	" It's a joyous, moving, living work that propels Boyle to the forefront of filmmakers working today." Posted Dec 17, 2008
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 98%	Let the Right One In (2008)	" What a relief -- and what a delight -- it is to be able to praise a horror film without a string of qualifiers and excuses!" Posted Dec 17, 2008
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 93%	Milk (2008)	" It's that rare case where the importance of the subject matter and the importance of the film are on equal footing." Posted Dec 10, 2008
Fresh 5/5	Rotten 59%	RocknRolla (2008)	" A richly entertaining work that overflows with stylish set pieces (including what is easily the funniest and most economical sex scene ever committed to film)." Posted Nov 5, 2008
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 73%	When Did You Last See Your Father? (2008)	" The film puts forth the idea that the best we ever get are reflections and fragmented images of others, as if we see things entirely through prisms or distorting glass." Posted Aug 6, 2008
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 100%	Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)	" Not a pleasant experience, but just as not every film needs to be 'important,' neither does every film need to be empty escapism." Posted Mar 19, 2008
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 65%	Be Kind Rewind (2008)	" Gondry has merely used the plot to celebrate community, friendship, love, creativity, making something out of nothing and the power of myth to sometimes be greater than truth." Posted Feb 27, 2008
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 98%	The Band's Visit (2007)	" A film of exquisite charm, beauty, humor and humanity -- with some of the best performances you're likely to encounter in some considerable time." Posted Apr 16, 2008
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 93%	Juno (2007)	" *When I first saw Jason Reitman's Juno, I liked it a lot -- maybe four-stars worth of a lot. When I watched it a second time, I loved it -- five-stars worth.*" Posted Dec 25, 2007
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 85%	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)	" Everything a Burton picture should be, everything a musical should be, everything the play should be and everything the venerable horror story of good old Sweeney should be." Posted Dec 19, 2007
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 67%	The Darjeeling Limited (2007)	" About as close to perfection as you're likely to get." Posted Oct 31, 2007
Fresh 5/5	Rotten 54%	Across the Universe (2007)	" *Julie Taymor's Across the Universe* is an imperfect film, but it's still five-full-stars' worth of imperfect film.**" Posted Oct 17, 2007
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 89%	Eastern Promises (2007)	" Grabs you, holds you, and won't let go. It's a film that you carry around with you for days after seeing it." Posted Sep 26, 2007
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 74%	Sunshine (2007)	" The blend of humanity -- frailty, ego, idealism, guilt and the capacity for self-sacrifice -- is presented in great complexity." Posted Sep 5, 2007
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 81%	Talk to Me (2007)	" Crackles with life and honesty in a way no picture I've seen in 2007 has." Posted Aug 29, 2007
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 76%	Stardust (2007)	" I will not hesitate in calling it the best film of the summer." Posted Aug 15, 2007
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 82%	Paprika (2007)	" Simply the most refreshing piece of cinema I've seen this year." Posted Aug 1, 2007
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 85%	Paris, Je T'aime (2007)	" *The bee's knees, the cat's pajamas and* the lobster's dinner shirt of movies currently playing.**" Posted Jun 20, 2007
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 89%	Venus (2006)	" Venus isn't just a small-scale character study, but a thing of beauty to be treasured -- just like its star." Posted Mar 7, 2007
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 91%	Volver (2006)	" Nothing short of moviegoing nirvana." Posted Jan 24, 2007
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 95%	Pan's Labyrinth (2006)	" Films this extraordinary don't come along every day -- or even every decade." Posted Jan 24, 2007
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 92%	Children of Men (2006)	" It's simply must-see filmmaking all the way around -- as art, as entertainment, as social commentary." Posted Jan 10, 2007
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 62%	The History Boys (2006)	" In the world of movies, it's a rare treat to find anything as sophisticated and witty as Alan Bennett's screenplay." Posted Dec 28, 2006
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 72%	Stranger Than Fiction (2006)	" *Beautifully written (the passages from Eiffel's book are stunningly good), acted and directed, there's not a false note in Stranger Than Fiction.*" Posted Nov 15, 2006
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 65%	Shortbus (2006)	" Simply a terrific movie -- the most courageous (not just because of the sex), inventive, moving and captivating film I've seen this year." Posted Nov 8, 2006
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 92%	The Departed (2006)	" A wholly remarkable work -- one that is considerably deeper and certainly more complex than its crime thriller status might imply." Posted Oct 11, 2006
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 69%	The Science of Sleep (2006)	" The most strikingly original film to hit movie screens this year -- or practically any other year for that matter." Posted Oct 4, 2006
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 90%	Little Miss Sunshine (2006)	" A completely accessible, hysterically funny, thoroughly delightful and incredibly human film on every level." Posted Aug 30, 2006
Fresh 5/5	Rotten 48%	Idlewild (2006)	" I'm not sure who this was made for, but I thank God -- along with Messrs. Barber, Benjamin and Patton -- that somebody made it at all." Posted Aug 30, 2006
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 81%	A Prairie Home Companion (2006)	" Keillor has handed Altman the script of a lifetime, and Altman has given him the perfect film of it -- while summing up so much of himself and his films in the bargain." Posted Jun 14, 2006
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 75%	Transamerica (2005)	" *By turns hysterically funny and heartbreaking, Transamerica* is a film of tremendous warmth, charm and perception anchored to a central performance of unique power.**" Posted Mar 1, 2006
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 93%	Saraband (2005)	" Powerful and more than a little depressing, but it's also essential filmmaking for anyone who cares about one of the giants of cinema. " Posted Feb 1, 2006
Fresh 5/5	Rotten 56%	Breakfast on Pluto (2005)	" *Neil Jordan's Breakfast on Pluto* bursts onto the screen ablaze with more color, more ideas, more nerve, more invention and more heart than just about anything imaginable.** " Posted Jan 18, 2006
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 86%	Brokeback Mountain (2005)	" *It's that it's the very powerful, very real love story of two men that gives Brokeback* its quality and universality -- and scares the hell out of its detractors.**" Posted Jan 4, 2006
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 72%	Syriana (2005)	" *Rich, complex, multilayered and by turns maddening and depressing, Syriana* emerges as one of the best films of the year.** " Posted Dec 14, 2005
Fresh 5/5	Rotten 42%	Bee Season (2005)	" Very worth 'going with' for both the things it has to say and the bold ways in which it says them. " Posted Dec 1, 2005
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 83%	Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (2005)	" This is at once a perfect depiction of a folk tale and a perfect Tim Burton movie." Posted Sep 29, 2005
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 83%	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)	" *There's more manic invention and sheer joy of filmmaking in any five minutes of Burton's Charlie* than in all the mainstream releases of 2005 put together.**" Posted Jul 20, 2005
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 85%	Howl's Moving Castle (2005)	" It's the combination of the characterizations, the of truths dropped here and there in the dialogue, and the sheer visual dazzlement that truly make the film what it is. " Posted Jul 6, 2005
Fresh 5/5	Fresh 73%	Mojados (2004)	" Unflinchingly real and never glamorous, the film presents a harrowing picture of these lives in a way rarely seen." Posted May 17, 2005

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