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:
687
Total QuickRatings:
5

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
3/4 80% The Summit (2013) " The Summit joins a small but distinguished canon, which include Jon Krakauer's best-selling Into Thin Air and Kevin Macdonald's gripping documentary Touching the Void." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Oct 4, 2013
88% Captain Phillips (2013) " With its twists and turns and at 99 minutes, A Hijacking outsmarts the 132-minute long Captain Phillips." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Sep 30, 2013
2.5/4 —— Je m'appelle Hmmm... (My Name Is Hmmm...) () " The film is quietly observational and, in terms of style, all over the place. The director obviously borrows from the looseness of the early French New Wave." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Sep 30, 2013
2/4 78% Abus de faiblesse (Abuse of Weakness) () " The physical demands of the role offer a new opportunity for Huppert, who is otherwise on automatic pilot, aloof and disdainful." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Sep 30, 2013
2.5/4 55% Child Of God () " This is a tough sell, a heavy-duty Southern gothic that makes the Coen brothers' No Country for Old Men seem lightweight." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Sep 30, 2013
3/4 —— Club Sándwich (Club Sandwich) () " A more intimate mother and son relationship is hard to imagine. " — Film-Forward.com
Posted Sep 30, 2013
3/4 100% Le Week-End (2013) " Delightfully tart ... you can feel elated and sad at the same time." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Sep 30, 2013
3.5/4 —— Eastern Boys () " Fascinating and suspenseful" — Film-Forward.com
Posted Sep 23, 2013
3/4 —— L'armée du salut (Salvation Army) () " Beautifully observed and melancholic" — Film-Forward.com
Posted Sep 23, 2013
2.5/4 —— The Dog () " An unexpurgated blast of gay 1970s New York" — Film-Forward.com
Posted Sep 23, 2013
3.5/4 —— Pelo malo (Bad Hair) () " The most endearing film I saw out of 36 films [at the Toronto International Film Festival] was Bad Hair." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Sep 23, 2013
3.5/4 95% Enough Said (2013) " Even without the foreknowledge of [Gandolfini]'s recent death, the film has a lingering sense of regret, despite its Hollywood ending. " — Film-Forward.com
Posted Sep 23, 2013
2.5/4 —— Amazonia () " In a visually resplendent French/Brazilian live-action co-production, a scene-stealer little capuchin monkey survives a plane clash and has to learn to fend for himself ... Run, little monkey, run! " — Film-Forward.com
Posted Sep 23, 2013
3/4 98% Gravity (2013) " High-class hokum 600,000 feet in orbit" — Film-Forward.com
Posted Sep 23, 2013
3/4 97% 12 Years a Slave (2013) " The drooping Spanish moss is about the only visual icon that this film shares with Gone With the Wind." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Sep 23, 2013
2/4 12% The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) " A passable late-summer stand-in for its core audience until the new fall CW television season begins." — School Library Journal
Posted Aug 21, 2013
2.5/4 68% The Artist and the Model (2013) " With understated performances and unabashed arty nudity, it's drama au natural." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Aug 16, 2013
2/4 38% Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013) " {Percy] wants to prove that he's not a "one-quest wonder," but this movie franchise-wannabe doesn't escape that dig." — School Library Journal
Posted Aug 7, 2013
3/4 98% Wadjda (2013) " It engages largely because of its rebellious title character, an enterprising, plucky, and very obstinate 10-year-old girl." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Aug 4, 2013
3/4 84% Smash & Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers (2013) " The film will more than scratch an itch for heist film fans waiting for the next Topkapi, Rififi, or The Thomas Crown Affair." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Aug 1, 2013
3/4 91% The Spectacular Now (2013) " The director's attention to well-rounded, non-stereotypical characterization is spread evenly throughout the ensemble." — School Library Journal
Posted Jul 30, 2013
3/4 —— Jîn () " Every frame tells a story." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Jul 28, 2013
3/4 100% The Rocket (2013) " The director moves the incident-packed story line at an energetic pace; there's never a dull moment. You're bound to hear applause as the final credits roll." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Jul 28, 2013
3/4 —— Stand Clear Of The Closing Doors () " An indirect tribute to the 1951 independent landmark The Little Fugitive" — Film-Forward.com
Posted Jul 28, 2013
2.5/4 —— Sunlight Jr. (2013) " An atypical American social realist film that offers a low-key and somber look at the country's underclass" — Film-Forward.com
Posted Jul 28, 2013
2/4 —— Bluebird () " Without a variation in the film's morose tone, it comes off as a slice of rust belt misery." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Jul 28, 2013
3/4 —— Six Acts (2013) " The tyranny of popularity among high schoolers has rarely been depicted so brutally. It's a different kind of teen horror movie." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Jul 28, 2013
3/4 91% Blue Jasmine (2013) " Though it's still early, this will likely be the best-written and most layered female character in an American film this year." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Jul 26, 2013
2.5/4 40% The Secret Disco Revolution (2013) " Much will be familiar, though this is the first time I've heard that the original discotheques came about in France under the Nazi Occupation." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Jul 10, 2013
3/4 —— Les garçons et Guillaume, à table () " [It reminded] the Cannes audience that it was okay to laugh. Lightweight, but winningly amusing." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Jul 10, 2013
2.5/4 92% The Selfish Giant () " And apparently there's life after Downton Abbey. In a 180-degree departure from that show's scheming Miss O'Brien, actress Siobhan Finneran plays Swifty's abused, soft-spoken mum. She and the boys are wonderful." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Jul 10, 2013
2.5 67% Magic Magic (2013) " For viewers stuck on this island for 90 minutes with three boisterous extroverts and one semi-catatonic, semi-hysteric guest, it's like coming down with a case of both schizophrenia and high cabin fever." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Jul 10, 2013
3/4 —— La Jaula De Oro (1991) " The point of view is effortlessly empathetic. In a year where there have already been numerous films showcasing great non-professional casts ..., this one joins the ranks." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Jul 10, 2013
2.5/4 —— My Sweet Pepperland () " The lead actors have chemistry, and with Baran's hazel eyes and Govend's high cheek bones, what else do you need?" — Film-Forward.com
Posted Jul 10, 2013
2.5/4 —— Dast-Neveshtehaa Nemisoosand (Manuscripts Don't Burn) () " The film observes rather than thrills, methodically demonstrating: this is how it happens. This tone and the even-keel direction avoid the trappings of a screed. It's actually a quiet but angry film." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Jul 10, 2013
2.5/4 64% Tiger Eyes (2013) " Guided by a gentle pace, this is a quiet film, in tone and in its acting." — School Library Journal
Posted Jun 18, 2013
3/4 92% Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) " May be the Coens' saddest yet" — Film-Forward.com
Posted Jun 11, 2013
3/4 81% Nebraska (2013) " A straightforward road trip with an embracing sense of melancholia" — Film-Forward.com
Posted Jun 11, 2013
2.5/4 40% Only God Forgives (2013) " Gosling plays it cool, maybe too much so. He's on no-emote control ... Though morally and emotionally superficial, the film mesmerizes visually" — Film-Forward.com
Posted Jun 11, 2013
3.5/4 84% A Touch of Sin (2013) " This was one film that I gladly wished was longer. It's the best omnibus in quite some time." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Jun 11, 2013
3/4 88% La Vénus à la fourrure (Venus in Fur) () " Polanski knows the jig is up: this is a beautifully framed mounting of a play, filmed elegantly with simply composed shots. " — Film-Forward.com
Posted Jun 11, 2013
4/4 94% The Past (2013) " A great novelist-as-filmmaker, Farhadi has written another mystery where every plot detail counts, beginning simply and innocuously enough." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Jun 11, 2013
2.5/4 95% Blue Is The Warmest Color (2013) " Forget the on-screen sex, it's the emotions that are too explicit." — Film-Forward.com
Posted Jun 11, 2013
3/4 91% Our Nixon (2013) " 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
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