Kirk Honeycutt

Kirk Honeycutt

Agrees with the Tomatometer 70% of the time.

Publications:
Hollywood Reporter , honeycuttshollywood.com
Critics' Group:
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
Total Reviews:
1541

Best Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
9/10 87% The Dark Knight Rises (2012) " This film really is, arguably of course, the conclusion of the best film trilogy in popular cinema." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Jul 17, 2012
4/5 47% A Liar's Autobiography - The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman (2012) " Shockingly, little of this 3D cartoon is funny apart from Graham Chapman's own humorous narration." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Nov 6, 2012
7 100% Behind the Candelabra () " The lifestyles of the rich, famous and queer get a provocative examination in Steven Soderbergh's 'Behind the Candelabra.'" — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted May 15, 2013
8 73% Love Is All You Need (2013) " Susanne Bier is unwilling to abandon her own clear-eyed, skeptical view of mankind and its troubles even when in a lighthearted mood." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted May 3, 2013
7 24% Arthur Newman (2013) " Ariola is genuinely into character, making sure you get enough glimpses into the lives of these people so you may glean a sense of what ails these damaged souls." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Apr 24, 2013
6 77% 42 (2013) " It's not easy to steal home when you've got a halo over your head but Boseman somehow manages." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Apr 15, 2013
8 80% The Story Of Luke (2013) " The first comedy gem of 2013." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Apr 5, 2013
7 69% The Croods (2013) " The Croods reps one of DreamWorks' better efforts since the action takes place in a world of startling beauty and striking life forms." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Mar 18, 2013
6 52% Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) " Studios will continue to roll these CGI, 3D fantasias out, but the question I'm raising is why does Bryan Singer keep getting involved?" — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Mar 1, 2013
7 92% No (2013) " The film highlights the sad fact that logical arguments don't win political debates or elections. Sloganeering and advertising do." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Feb 15, 2013
6 27% Saving Lincoln (2013) " The film suggests a way modestly budgeted movies can approach historical epochs and figures in a provocative and arresting manner." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Feb 15, 2013
5 46% Beautiful Creatures (2013) " For a while, in the early going, you sense the filmmakers may entertain greater ambitions, that they see sly possibilities." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Feb 15, 2013
6 93% Lore (2013) " Lore is a remarkable film that explores characters, often unlikable, in situations of unbearable stress." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Feb 5, 2013
8 37% Stand Up Guys (2013) " The movie is a star vehicle for Pacino, Walken & Arkin but this instance, it works terrifically." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Jan 30, 2013
8 85% Side Effects (2013) " This is Steven Soderbergh's post-modern Hitchcock thriller" — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Jan 29, 2013
6 40% Parker (2013) " For fast-paced, no frills, mindless action, you could do a lot worse than Parker." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Jan 25, 2013
7 86% Tabu (2012) " The influences of Murnau's 1931 black-and-white Tabu are more thematic than stylistic in this uncategorizable new film" — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Jan 24, 2013
8 69% Les Misérables (2012) " Once the film acknowledges the exaggeration and two-dimensionality of the story's gleefully villainous characters, 'Les Mis' starts to resemble a party with great music." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Dec 23, 2012
6 61% Jack Reacher (2012) " As producer and star, Tom Cruise has made a film that is at once a vanity project, possible franchise and, if one is to be honest, a crowd pleaser." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Dec 19, 2012
7 81% The Impossible (2012) " While the final third of the film feels forced, its emotional power comes earlier - in the catastrophe of the tsunami, the immediate aftermath and random acts of heroism." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Dec 18, 2012
5 69% Not Fade Away (2012) " Like many a semi-autobiographical piece, characters and events don't fall into place with the rigor of those 10-Step Programs of Good Screenwriting." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Dec 18, 2012
6 88% Django Unchained (2012) " While inventive and clever, it doesn't add up to much more than a minor film from a major director." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Dec 13, 2012
8 77% Any Day Now (2012) " Alan Cumming's brilliant performance is eye-catching and provocative, imbued with such feeling that this turns a social-issue film into a must-see movie." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Dec 12, 2012
9 93% Amour (2012) " Haneke's challenge to audiences is to experience real love - it's tough and brutal and definitely not for the faint of heart." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Dec 10, 2012
6 38% Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) " A presidential mistress makes a good window into events of worldwide importance." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Dec 6, 2012
9 93% Zero Dark Thirty (2013) " The film is a calm, concentrated, densely detailed description of a manhunt on a global scale - moviemaking at its engrossing best." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Dec 5, 2012
6 35% Cheerful Weather For The Wedding (2012) " A welcome addition to the wedding comedy sub genre, light on its feet and brimming with vivid character portraits." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Dec 5, 2012
8 65% The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) " Wild slides into caves, pell-mell chases, absurd cliffhangers and other such "thrill-rides" in 3D give the film a playfulness." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Dec 4, 2012
7 74% Rise of the Guardians (2012) " The film is fun and clever with a post-modern re-invention of nearly all your childhood fantasy figures" — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Nov 26, 2012
9 88% Life of Pi (2012) " The film's resplendent images create a modern-day fable that reaches out to the unknown." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Nov 21, 2012
8 63% Hitchcock (2012) " Clearly, the filmmakers are in the mood for fun and not worrying how accurate anything is." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Nov 6, 2012
9 89% Lincoln (2012) " A brilliantly articulated, rigorously accurate, tough-minded historical drama that focuses on character and meaning over spectacle." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Nov 6, 2012
9 92% Skyfall (2012) " The best Bond movie in decades." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Nov 6, 2012
7 94% The Central Park Five (2012) " What the film does best is explain the psychology behind police and prosecurtorial attachment to a false story." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Nov 3, 2012
6 76% The Bay (2012) " A mixed bag - some of it is quite entertaining and thought-provoking while other parts are plain silly." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Nov 3, 2012
5 49% The Man With the Iron Fists (2012) " While fun and made to fully maximize the stylized action, the movie is the work of a serious student of the genre rather than a master with a gift for reinvention." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Nov 3, 2012
9 94% The Sessions (2012) " This filmmaker knows exactly what he's doing every step of the way and is absolutely right in all his choices." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Oct 16, 2012
6 68% Step Up To The Plate (2012) " Culinary idolatry where the camera takes up residence in the kitchen of a world-renowned chef to gaze in awe." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Oct 12, 2012
8 87% Middle of Nowhere (2012) " The fim's emotions bubble to the surface in ways that don't seem acted, in scenes that don't seem scripted." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Oct 12, 2012
7 96% Argo (2012) " A solid crowd-pleaser but one awaits a tougher-minded movie from Ben Affleck. 'Argo' proves he has it in him." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Oct 11, 2012
7 44% The Paperboy (2012) " 'The Paperboy' is one seriously demented film but what glorious melodrama oozes from that dementia!" — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Oct 4, 2012
9 87% Frankenweenie (2012) " A glorious, visually sumptuous stop-motion, black-and-white animated film that kids will see on one level while adults will read it on a completely different level." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Oct 4, 2012
8 32% Won't Back Down (2012) " By skillfully navigating a minefield of political, social and moral issues involving the mostly broken American educational system, 'Won't Back Down' earns its happy ending" — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Sep 27, 2012
6 —— Almost Perfect (2012) " 'Almost Perfect' is a slight romantic comedy that refreshingly views people of color and a mixed marriage without that being its central focus." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Sep 26, 2012
7 81% Pitch Perfect (2012) " Delving into the peviously unexplored world of collegiate a cappella singing, there's a smarty-pants, tongue-in-cheek tone to 'Pitch Perfect.'" — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Sep 26, 2012
9 84% Detropia (2012) " 'Detropia' is a tone poem, an impressionistic mosaic that gives you a sense of the city and a pandemic of pessimism that challenges those who elect to stay." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Sep 26, 2012
6 43% Hotel Transylvania (2012) " The cartoon has funny moment but most of its ingenuity has gone into the critter design." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Sep 26, 2012
8 79% The Other Son (2012) " "The Other Son" may be wishful thinking but does show what might happen - what can happen - when the luxury of hatred is taken away from a Palestinian and an Israeli family." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Sep 20, 2012
8 94% Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel (2012) " It quickly becomes clear in this film that "Diana Vreeland" invented herself. She is a marvelous creation and totally original." — honeycuttshollywood.com
Posted Sep 20, 2012
7 85% End of Watch (2012) " It's every cop movie you've ever seen but from a fresh angle: You go into each situation without a clue about its outcome." — Hollywood Reporter
Posted Sep 20, 2012
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