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Rick Kisonak

Rick Kisonak

Agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

Publications:
Film Threat , MovieWeb
Total Reviews:
255
Total QuickRatings:
1

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88% Rush (2013) " An overrated racing picture that literally goes nowhere fast. " — Film Threat
Posted Oct 2, 2013
—— Manhattan Short Film Festival 2011 () " Every one of these ten shorts is a winner in its own way and proves beyond a shadow of a digital doubt that less, in the right hands, definitely can be more." — Film Threat
Posted Sep 25, 2013
33% The Family (2013) " Obviously Robert De Niro was abducted by aliens, and the fellow we've watched sleepwalk through nearly 20 years of shlock is a pod person. A pod person with a terrible agent." — Film Threat
Posted Sep 18, 2013
91% The Spectacular Now (2013) " Director James Ponsoldt has a drinking problem. The problem is that he apparently can't stop making movies about drinking. " — Film Threat
Posted Sep 12, 2013
64% One Direction: This Is Us (2013) " Spurlock makes inventive use of 3-D technology. The picture is trippy in places, making it more pleasant to sit through the forgettable songs than it otherwise would be. But Beatles comparisons? Please. One Direction is less a band than a business plan." — Film Threat
Posted Sep 4, 2013
91% Blue Jasmine (2013) " After all the great things I'd heard, I felt like I must've stumbled into the wrong theater as I watched the sloppy, misanthropic sitcom that is Blue Jasmine" — Film Threat
Posted Aug 28, 2013
26% Jobs (2013) " The picture's most significant problem is simply that it's pointlessly truncated. It's the truth, just not the whole truth. Stern and Whiteley's is a story about big business when it should've been a story about big ideas. " — Film Threat
Posted Aug 26, 2013
47% We're The Millers (2013) " Certainties are few in this life, but you can take it from me: Though the movie listings might suggest otherwise, there's no such thing as Miller time." — Film Threat
Posted Aug 14, 2013
60% War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State (2013) " The film doesn't so much unfold as detonate. It's a swift kick in the pants at 66 minutes and utilizes a deft blend of archival footage, graphs, subject interviews and bites from knowledgeable talking heads such as David Carr." — Film Threat
Posted Aug 7, 2013
85% The Way Way Back (2013) " A moving bit of business about a boy learning the secret to making life a day at the beach and the best work yet from two guys who really do go way, way back. " — Film Threat
Posted Jul 31, 2013
86% The Conjuring (2013) " James Wan's 2004 breakthrough, Saw, was the definition of torture porn. His latest, on the other hand, is simply torture." — Film Threat
Posted Jul 24, 2013
8% Grown Ups 2 (2013) " Sandler and his pals are in the enviable position of having the muscle to do their thing for fun and profit. " — Film Threat
Posted Jul 22, 2013
67% World War Z (2013) " Plot holes are barely outnumbered by the undead. How, for example, did the zombie apocalypse bring civilization to the brink of collapse without folks hearing about it on CNN? The film's writers, as Ricky Ricardo would say, 'have some splainin to do.'" — Film Threat
Posted Jun 26, 2013
84% This Is the End (2013) " The dirty half dozen may find God at the last minute, but they've all been disciples of Judd Apatow for years. So the absence of taste is balanced by an abundance of heart." — Film Threat
Posted Jun 19, 2013
35% The Internship (2013) " Nothing wipes the smiles off their faces-even when jobs vaporize, girlfriends bail and homes go into foreclosure. After a while, their positivity actually began to creep me out. They're like Stepford bros." — Film Threat
Posted Jun 13, 2013
50% Now You See Me (2013) " The final act reaches up its sleeve and pulls out a big twist that's supposed to take us by surprise - but, instead, just takes us for idiots." — Film Threat
Posted Jun 5, 2013
19% The Hangover Part III (2013) " Well, the wolves have packed it in and anyone who coughed up 10 bucks for a ticket to this fecal threequel has my deepest condolences." — Film Threat
Posted May 29, 2013
89% A Place at the Table (2013) " A must-see dispatch from the front lines of this struggle packed with sobering statistics and infuriating facts - among them, that one in four American children is chronically hungry." — Film Threat
Posted May 22, 2013
72% Renoir (2013) " A portrait of the artist as an old fart. " — Film Threat
Posted May 15, 2013
92% The Sapphires (2013) " By-the-numbers in every sense of the word, the film tracks a tried-and-true sort of triumph while featuring renditions of soul classics so bursting with energy and joy you won't care that the originality meter is leaning on empty." — Film Threat
Posted May 8, 2013
93% Lore (2013) " Think "Little Red Riding Hood" meets The Road." — Film Threat
Posted May 1, 2013
54% Oblivion (2013) " You know a picture's derivative when a list of titles in the same genre technically constitutes a spoiler. It's not so much that these films provide the picture's DNA as that Kosinski uses them as his personal cinematic ATM. " — Film Threat
Posted Apr 24, 2013
79% 42 (2013) " Helgeland's handling of the material is simply too by the book, giving us the milestone in place of the man. " — Film Threat
Posted Apr 17, 2013
93% The Gatekeepers (2013) " Many secrets are revealed and examined in director Dror Moreh's mind-blowingly fine film. If I have a quibble, it's that he never reveals the most tantalizing secret of all: how the hell he pulled it off." — Film Threat
Posted Apr 10, 2013
44% On the Road (2012) " Considering the central characters would become the dominant figures of the Beat movement, it's unbelievable how pedestrian their antics prove, not to mention how through-the-roof the picture's corn quotient is. Could the soundtrack have more bongo music?" — Film Threat
Posted Apr 3, 2013
47% Olympus Has Fallen (2013) " big and dumb and more fun than a barrel of Bruce Willises." — Film Threat
Posted Mar 27, 2013
44% The Call (2013) " Breslin makes the leap from Little Miss Goofball to scream teen seamlessly, but there isn't much else in this once-promising director's cell-out to make it worth your time to take this call." — Film Threat
Posted Mar 20, 2013
38% Dead Man Down (2013) " I'm not sure what the attraction was supposed to be here - plot holes and pretentious patter?" — Film Threat
Posted Mar 13, 2013
52% Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) " With marketing costs, the tab for this 3-D dud tops $300 million. So it's safe to say that, while the fabled goose never makes an appearance, one hell of an egg got laid." — Film Threat
Posted Mar 6, 2013
37% Dark Skies (2013) " Not screening movies like Dark Skies for critics is a ploy generally met with disapproval. But that's the wrong way to look at the practice. Maybe studios should be encouraged to go a step further and not screen movies like Dark Skies for anyone at all." — Film Threat
Posted Feb 27, 2013
80% Quartet (2013) " The point isn't that Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut suffers in comparison with other films about old age, such as Amour. The point is that it's so spectacularly silly and sentimental, it simply suffers in comparison with other films." — Film Threat
Posted Feb 20, 2013
93% Amour (2012) " The furthest thing from sweet sorrow imaginable, Amour gets real about the pain of parting in every sense of the word." — Film Threat
Posted Feb 13, 2013
38% Stand Up Guys (2013) " Stevens' second feature proves unexpectedly thoughtful and affecting, thanks in large part to virtuoso interplay between its leads." — Film Threat
Posted Feb 6, 2013
15% Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) " A mess on every conceivable front, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is unable to generate so much as a minute of movie magic." — Film Threat
Posted Jan 30, 2013
82% De rouille et d'os (Rust and Bone) (2012) " Filmmaking this self-indulgent screams "refund" in any language." — Film Threat
Posted Jan 23, 2013
32% Gangster Squad (2013) " A better name for this rip-off of The Untouchables would've been The Unwatchables." — Film Threat
Posted Jan 16, 2013
93% Zero Dark Thirty (2013) " It's safe to say the creators of Zero Dark Thirty expected to be hearing more about Oscar nominations and less about Senate panels as their movie neared wide release. " — Film Threat
Posted Jan 10, 2013
63% Hitchcock (2012) " Gervasi's latest stretches the truth so frequently and so far it ends up less the story of the genius behind Psycho than a bunch of biographical hooey that's for the birds." — Film Threat
Posted Dec 19, 2012
93% The Central Park Five (2012) " A miscarriage of justice on this scale would have been tragic had it resulted from an honest mistake - but, as this meticulously researched movie makes clear, honesty had little to do with it. " — Film Threat
Posted Dec 12, 2012
75% Killing Them Softly (2012) " You may find yourself wishing these hooligans would raise a little more hell and watch a little less C-SPAN." — Film Threat
Posted Dec 5, 2012
64% Anna Karenina (2012) " Unless I miss my guess, this is the first motion picture in which a director uses eye-poppingly bizarro visuals to distract his audience while he sneaks it a dose of art." — Film Threat
Posted Nov 28, 2012
89% Lincoln (2012) " Never before in American cinema have politics and poetry combined to make such spellbinding bedfellows." — Film Threat
Posted Nov 21, 2012
94% The Sessions (2012) " an unusually frank and frequently humorous meditation on the transformative power of connection" — Film Threat
Posted Nov 14, 2012
78% Flight (2012) " Think twice before buying the hype. This Flight wouldn't be a tragedy to miss." — Film Threat
Posted Nov 7, 2012
30% Chasing Mavericks (2012) " An unhappy reminder of the creative wipeout Curtis Hanson's career has unexpectedly become." — Film Threat
Posted Oct 31, 2012
94% The House I Live In (2012) " A devastating dispatch from the front lines of America's war on drugs, the film tracks the rise of the prison-industrial complex as masterfully as the filmmaker's previous work took on its older military-industrial cousin." — Film Threat
Posted Oct 24, 2012
96% Argo (2012) " For a story about out-of-the-box thinking and high-risk heroism, Argo plays it surprisingly safe." — Film Threat
Posted Oct 17, 2012
21% Taken 2 (2012) " If you're hoping for even a hint here of the original's appeal, allow me to quote the immortal words of Marko from Tropoja: 'Good luck.'" — Film Threat
Posted Oct 11, 2012
87% Arbitrage (2012) " Jarecki's feature debut is handsome and assured, with flashes of insight and the pleasures of a decent procedural. Given the brains and talent invested in it, however, Arbitrage should've yielded greater dividends." — Film Threat
Posted Oct 3, 2012
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