Kent Turner

Kent Turner

Agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

Publications:
Film-Forward.com , School Library Journal
Critics' Group:
Online Film Critics Society
Total Reviews:
654
Total QuickRatings:
5

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
3/4 —— Our Nixon () " An insular time capsule, and a somewhat snarky tweak, of the country's most complicated president." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Mar 26, 2013
3/4 —— Anton tut ryadom (Anton's Right Here) () " And boy, has the director found a compelling story line ... Remarkably, the overall point of view remains sober-it's uplifting, but no Kleenex is necessary." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Mar 26, 2013
3/4 —— Eles Voltam (They'll Come Back) () " Though geared for adults, this quiet and enfolding film feels like a remarkably perceptive YA novel." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Mar 26, 2013
2.5/4 79% Reality (2013) " The effect of watching this beautifully crafted and sincere film about desire run amok is virtually hypnotic, thanks to the long gilding takes." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Mar 15, 2013
2.5/4 —— Mauvaise Fille () " The film refuses to embrace even its audience. Take that as praise and a warning." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Mar 7, 2013
3/4 71% Le magasin des suicides (The Suicide Shop) () " After the success of the irreverent The Book of Mormon, this would be a natural for the stage-Broadway would be so lucky." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Mar 7, 2013
3/4 —— Le jour des corneilles () " Gorgeously animated ... smart enough for adults and appealing for anyone with abandonment issues. " — Film-Forward.com
Posted Mar 7, 2013
2.5/4 —— Une Estonienne à Paris () " At 84, actress Jeanne Moreau gives out a dangerous and a high-voltage charge in the otherwise sweet and straightforward A Lady in Paris." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Mar 7, 2013
3/4 —— Jappeloup () " The drama really takes off during the competitions, filmed with an aerobic camera that moves everywhere ... Even if you're not an equestrian, this is a knuckle-biter. " — Film-Forward.com
Posted Mar 7, 2013
2.5/4 45% Beautiful Creatures (2013) " If the film survives the poxes and put-downs from fans, it will be due, in no small part, to the breezy charms of actor Alden Ehrenreich as Ethan. He has the looks of mid-1950s Tony Curtis and a goofy affability." — School Library Journal
Posted Feb 14, 2013
3/4 92% Night Across the Street (2013) " The film's like wandering unescorted in someone else's mind ... It becomes more beautifully melancholic as you remember it." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Feb 12, 2013
3/4 93% Zero Dark Thirty (2013) " The film has recently been slammed, perhaps as backlash to its early critical raves, but on close examination, it's not a work to readily dismiss." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Jan 11, 2013
2.5/4 66% The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) " The overgenerous running time is somewhat to the film's advantage, but there are warning signs that Jackson might be stretching the tale to its limit." — School Library Journal
Posted Dec 13, 2012
3/4 80% Wagner & Me (2012) " The composer has no better advocate than Fry." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Dec 6, 2012
3/4 88% Life of Pi (2012) " The film ... will make you firmly believe in the power of movies. " — School Library Journal
Posted Nov 20, 2012
2.5/4 48% The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012) " Immortality becomes Bella. After moping and mewing throughout the first four film adaptations of Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" paranormal romance series, the heroine takes charge." — School Library Journal
Posted Nov 15, 2012
2/4 89% A Royal Affair (2012) " It wants to burst out of its corset and get down-and-Dangerous Liaisons dirty ... the political backstabbing becomes less personal and more like a history lesson in fancy dress." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Nov 13, 2012
2/4 26% War of the Buttons (2012) " The film's trailer doesn't lie. What you see is what you'll get ... A warning for those who can't watch The Sound of Music all the way through: the adorable factor hits the roof" — Film-Forward.com
Posted Oct 14, 2012
2.5/4 68% Wuthering Heights (2012) " Arnold knocks the work off its high-culture pedestal back into the mud." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Oct 7, 2012
3/4 82% Fat Kid Rules the World (2012) " Like Going's award-winning book, the film is frank and doesn't sugarcoat the source material. " — School Library Journal
Posted Oct 6, 2012
3/4 —— Memories Look at Me (2013) " Watching Memories's like listening to the secrets of this family's history." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Oct 3, 2012
2/4 60% Camille Redouble () " The film plays the scenario straight and seriously ... the lessons learned don't take much of a detour from what Peggy Sue discovered in her time travel." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Oct 3, 2012
2.5/4 —— Linhas de Wellington (Lines of Wellington) () " A film to admire, with moments here and there to fully embrace" — Film-Forward.com
Posted Oct 3, 2012
3/4 —— Bwakaw () " A terrific mix of black comedy and subtle sentimental drama" — Film-Forward.com
Posted Oct 3, 2012
2.5/4 85% The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) " [The] characters, though familiar, become multidimensional and transcend stereotypes and the hot-button issues." — School Library Journal
Posted Sep 19, 2012
3.5/4 100% A Hijacking (2013) " This sharp psychological drama should serve as a calling card for the lean-and-mean director Tobias Lindholm." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Sep 17, 2012
2/4 81% Something in the Air (2013) " A subdued portrayal of youthful idealism, even with surging hormones" — Film-Forward.com
Posted Sep 17, 2012
2/4 —— Superstar () " The prescient Network was way ahead of the curve, even predicting reality TV, while Superstar is just catching up." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Sep 17, 2012
2.5/4 86% The Master (2012) " The ghost of There Will Be Blood lingers in the background, except this time around there are two antisocial megalomaniacs descending into their own insular, myopic forms of crazy." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Sep 17, 2012
3/4 42% To The Wonder (2013) " This may be the only film where Oklahoma has ever looked as stunning as France ... The film comes to life when [Rachel] McAdams appears on the screen; she oozes with vulnerability." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Sep 17, 2012
3.5/4 —— Fill the Void (2013) " For its clarity and lack of pretension alone, Void stands apart ... beautifully acted " — Film-Forward.com
Posted Sep 6, 2012
3.5/4 75% Chicken with Plums (2012) " The visual equivalent of an intoxicant. One beautiful setting or image hazily dissolves into another, producing an enthralling kaleidoscope..." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Aug 23, 2012
3/4 70% Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012) " We want the pie-in-the-face moments, and the script figurative splatters them on Celeste, but never completely humiliates her. She has some dignity intact. Barely." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Aug 2, 2012
3/4 67% Trishna (2012) " Not wasting any time, Michael Winterbottom hurls Thomas Hardy's 1891 novel into the 21st century ... He's indebted to, but not weighed down, by the literary classic" — Film-Forward.com
Posted Jul 15, 2012
2.5/4 43% To Rome with Love (2012) " Ellen Page takes narcissism to new heights. Coldly manipulative, Monica is not quite an all-out villain, but she's close. " — Film-Forward.com
Posted Jun 23, 2012
2.5/4 95% Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present (2012) " How do you react when you walk through an entryway between a naked man and woman standing less than a foot a part ... and where do you put your hands?" — Film-Forward.com
Posted Jun 13, 2012
2.5/4 —— Shun LI And The Poet (2013) " Quietly moving and unassuming" — Film-Forward.com
Posted Jun 9, 2012
2/4 —— La leggenda di Kaspar Hauser () " The sketchy film has the best score that Giorgio Moroder never wrote. The movie may be a bit daft and draggy, but disco lives on." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Jun 9, 2012
3.5/4 —— Cavalli (Horses) () " A beautifully filmed and sentimental period piece with a quickening pulse" — Film-Forward.com
Posted Jun 9, 2012
2.5/4 75% The Intouchables (2012) " You'll wearily throw in the towel, and the take-no-prisoners performance of Omar Sy will win you over against your better judgment." — Film-Forward.com
Posted May 25, 2012
3/4 94% Moonrise Kingdom (2012) " Anderson has imagined the '60s on the East Coast as if from an Eddie Bauer catalog and Boys' Life, with the sensibility of The New Yorker." — Film-Forward.com
Posted May 25, 2012
3/4 93% Elena (2012) " Absorbing" — Film-Forward.com
Posted May 18, 2012
3/4 81% Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog (2012) " [The director] delivers a sentimental tale for dog lovers, grounded by the man-and-his-dog bond that has made the novels Where the Red Fern Grows and Old Yeller perennially popular. " — Film-Forward.com
Posted May 18, 2012
3/4 94% I Wish (2012) " Never for a moment did I think that the two boys at the heart of Hirokazu Kore-eda's simply told and layered film I Wish were actors." — Film-Forward.com
Posted May 13, 2012
3/4 94% Wagner's Dream (2012) " An engrossing look behind the curtain of the Metropolitan Opera ... it will wear down any resistance to the composer" — Film-Forward.com
Posted May 7, 2012
3/4 89% Whores' Glory (2012) " Whatever qualms there may be, it's never less than compelling: entirely atmospheric, vulgar, and boundary bursting." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Apr 26, 2012
3/4 —— Room 514 (Heder 514) (2013) " One of the finds this year is the Israeli pressure cooker Room 514" — Film-Forward.com
Posted Apr 26, 2012
3/4 95% Side by Side (2012) " A wonky gabfest for film buffs ... you're bound to learn something" — Film-Forward.com
Posted Apr 26, 2012
2.5/4 —— Grupo 7 (Unit 7) () " It also features a major star turn by Mario Casas, a Spanish star who is bound to break out internationally. " — Film-Forward.com
Posted Apr 26, 2012
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