Ken Hanke

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:
4364
Total QuickRatings:
1901
Location:
Asheville NC

Listing Of All Reviews & Articles

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
4.5/5 —— Penguin Pool Murder (1932) " The mystery that follows is good enough without being particularly dazzling, but that's less the selling point than the clever characters, the unusual leads, and the bright dialogue." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Oct 2, 2013
4.5/5 —— Private Detective 62 (1933) " It's not the kind of film that's ever going to make anyone's Ten Best list, but it's so enjoyable that it ought to be better known." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Oct 2, 2013
4/5 95% Enough Said (2013) " Consistently entertaining and funny (without ever being hysterically so) -- and, yes, I'd recommend it as a very nice way to spend 90 minutes at the movies." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Oct 2, 2013
4/5 89% Hamlet (1948) " So stylistically influenced by Welles that it might have been called Citizen Dane. " — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Oct 2, 2013
4.5/5 99% Short Term 12 (2013) " There is no way I ought to have liked this movie -- yet I kind of loved it." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Oct 2, 2013
4/5 83% Don Jon (2013) " I find it a film that's much easier to admire than actually like." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Oct 2, 2013
3.5/5 88% Rush (2013) " Works reasonably well in its Hollywoodized way. " — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Oct 2, 2013
4/5 80% Prisoners (2013) " While all this industrial strength acting is going on, there's also a pretty engrossing mystery afoot that keeps your attention." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Oct 2, 2013
4.5/5 46% Parkland (2013) " The sheer sense of urgency, tragedy and confusion surrounding that world-changing assassination has never been so compellingly presented." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Oct 2, 2013
3.5/5 43% The Human Stain (2003) " So finely tooled that it feels like it ought to be bound in Morocco leather and placed on a display case in a department store for a last minute Christmas gift." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Sep 18, 2013
4/5 50% Thanks For Sharing (2013) " If it's not quite as worthwhile as it wants to be, it's still OK." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Sep 18, 2013
4/5 31% Austenland (2013) " A reasonably successful, entertaining and genial spoof." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Sep 18, 2013
4/5 35% Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) " Chapter 2 might be the better film, though, frankly, it's hard to separate the two pictures. I honestly have never seen a sequel that's as completely organic as this one." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Sep 18, 2013
3.5/5 93% Still Mine (2013) " In essence, it's a TV movie with all the simplifications that suggests. But it's a TV movie raised to something more by Cromwell and Bujold." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Sep 12, 2013
4/5 81% Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013) " Not perfect and its dense quality isn't for everyone, but for the things it does right, and the performances it elicits, it's still special." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Sep 12, 2013
4.5/5 91% In a World... (2013) " It heralds the arrival of a fresh new voice on the filmmaking scene. That by itself makes it something you should see." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Sep 12, 2013
4/5 81% Crystal Fairy (2013) " Somehow or other, I ended up finding the movie strangely compelling. There's something appealing here. " — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Aug 27, 2013
3/5 91% The Spectacular Now (2013) " Maybe I'm missing something, but I found The Spectacular Now a good bit shy of spectacular." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Aug 27, 2013
4/5 73% Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) " Daniels certainly flirts with greatness, and even if he doesn't quite get there -- except on occasion -- he's made a very worthy film." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Aug 27, 2013
4.5/5 89% The World's End (2013) " Doesn't quite live up to its immediate predecessor, Hot Fuzz, but handily bests the first film, Shaun of the Dead." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Aug 27, 2013
2.5/5 75% You're Next (2013) " An unevenly acted, moderately efficient home-invasion picture with an old-as-the-hills plot Scotch-taped to it." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Aug 27, 2013
4.5/5 46% Closed Circuit (2013) " Intelligent, compelling drama of a kind we don't get very often." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Aug 27, 2013
4/5 —— Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935) " If Gold Diggers of 1935 wasn't quite up to its predecessor, it's probably the fault of the newly enforced Production Code." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Aug 14, 2013
4/5 79% The Innkeepers (2012) " What finally sells The Innkeepers is the fact that the payoff really pays off." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Aug 14, 2013
4/5 85% The Way Way Back (2013) " Provides a much-needed respite from overbearingly big summer movies. Think of it as a soothing breeze in the midst of a lot of blustering gales." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Aug 14, 2013
4/5 —— Murder, He Says () " One of those movies that never becomes one of the 'great' comedies, but it's sufficiently entertaining and funny that it ought to be better known." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Aug 14, 2013
4.5/5 83% Murder At The Vanities (1934) " One of the unsung gems of pre-Code film." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Aug 14, 2013
3.5/5 54% Lovelace (2013) " Lovelace isn't a bad movie. In fact, it's a pretty good one, but it definitely feels constrained and compromised." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Aug 14, 2013
4/5 64% Unfinished Song (2013) " The simple fact is that Unfinished Song works on nearly every level -- thanks in large part to the presence of Terence Stamp and the always remarkable Vanessa Redgrave." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Aug 14, 2013
4/5 76% The Kings of Summer (2013) " The first two-thirds of the movie felt rather special, while the last third less so. Still, it has its charms, the kids are appealing and it's worth catching." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Aug 14, 2013
3/5 69% The Wolverine (2013) " The Wolverine can proudly take its place with most of the rest of its comic book brethren this summer - high atop the mountain of the Massively OK." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Aug 14, 2013
3.5/5 86% The Conjuring (2013) " As a solid spook show, The Conjuring works, though the ending doesn't strike me as big enough for the story leading up to it." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Aug 14, 2013
.5/5 14% The Smurfs 2 (2013) " I took my inner-5-year-old to see The Smurfs 2 and what happened? The little weasel sneaked out of the theater and went to watch something else. " — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Aug 14, 2013
4/5 68% Elysium (2013) " While I find more problems with Neill Blomkamp's Elysium as time passes, I still come down pretty strongly for the film." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Aug 14, 2013
3/5 47% We're The Millers (2013) " Pretends to be edgy and hip, but in reality is so conventional it makes an old Osmond Family Christmas special look subversive." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Aug 14, 2013
4/5 80% Call Me Madam (2004) " Isn't a whole lot more than a solid film version of Irving Berlin's Ethel Merman stage show. But it doesn't really need to be." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Jul 16, 2013
4/5 84% Fill the Void (2013) " It's the movie's attention to detail that sells it, especially because the humanity of all the characters shines through." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Jul 16, 2013
4/5 20% Girl Most Likely (2013) " As a pleasant couple of hours at the movies, it'll more than do." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Jul 16, 2013
4.5/5 40% Only God Forgives (2013) " I won't say that I liked it -- that's not a word I'd care to use here -- but I was mesmerized by it. And I remain haunted by its otherworldliness." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Jul 16, 2013
4/5 72% Pacific Rim (2013) " What makes Pacific Rim work -- and work far better than it probably has any right to -- is the way del Toro embraces the movie's deliberately corny tone." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Jul 16, 2013
4/5 99% 20 Feet From Stardom (2013) " Not the deepest documentary you're likely to come across this year -- in fact, it's not deep at all -- but it may well be the most enjoyable one." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Jul 9, 2013
2.5/5 75% Despicable Me 2 (2013) " It's not that the movie is unlikable. It's that it feels like a trip through a random checklist of things that played well in the first film." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Jul 9, 2013
5/5 31% The Lone Ranger (2013) " A film that is at once divinely silly, surprisingly deep and deceptively complex." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Jul 9, 2013
4.5/5 17% At Long Last Love (1975) " Looked at today, without the baggage of 1975, At Long Last Love is much more artistically successful than is generally allowed." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Jul 2, 2013
4/5 95% We Steal Secrets: The Story Of Wikileaks (2013) " This look at WikiLeaks -- and founder Julian Assange -- makes its case long before the film stops talking." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Jul 2, 2013
1.5/4 65% The Heat (2013) " I chuckled once." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Jul 2, 2013
4.5/5 84% Much Ado About Nothing (2013) " A simple charmer and refreshing change of pace during blockbuster season." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Jun 19, 2013
3.5/5 59% The Bling Ring (2013) " It's not that it's a bad movie. Mostly, it's just on the inconsequential side." — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Jun 19, 2013
3.5/5 56% Man of Steel (2013) " I'm convinced there's probably a pretty darn good 105-minute movie wrapped inside this unwieldy 143-minute one -- not that we'll ever see it" — Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Jun 19, 2013
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