Katherine Pushkar

Katherine Pushkar's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s): New York Daily News

Publications: New York Daily News

Movie Reviews Only

Movies

	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Review
3.5/5	80%	Pee-wee's Big Holiday (2016)	It floats along, offering goofy gags and relentlessly silly jokes that will have you LOLing - sometimes in spite of yourself. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Mar 18, 2016
4/5	98%	Zootopia (2016)	Right there with the likes of "Up" and "Inside Out," "Zootopia" is so well done I forgot it was animated. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Mar 2, 2016
2/5	87%	Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)	Unfortunately, looks aren't everything. The plot is plodding and predictable. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 28, 2016
3/5	15%	Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015)	Let's just get it out of the way right now: Reader, I liked it. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Dec 16, 2015
3/5	87%	The Peanuts Movie (2015)	Theirs is a world where kids can't wait to go outside and play on a snow day, and there aren't any parents policing the park for hurt feelings and peanut butter. And it's a lo-fi delight. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 4, 2015
2/5	45%	Cooties (2015)	Despite the funny premise, "Cooties" doesn't live up to its potential. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 16, 2015
3/5	46%	Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)	Yes, these "Trials" go on too long. But they're never dull, and the kids are always good company. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 16, 2015
1/5	No Score Yet	Chloe & Theo (2015)	This tale of an Inuit coming to New York City to warn about the perils of climate change is like a 1970s PSA, complete with stock, one-note characters and message-y dialogue. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 3, 2015
2/5	27%	Dirty Weekend (2015)	The only thing more boring than this comedy about two colleagues on a layover in Albuquerque might be an actual layover in Albuquerque. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 3, 2015
2/5	20%	Zipper (2015)	On all counts, "Zipper" comes up short. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 26, 2015
1/5	16%	Sinister 2 (2015)	Baghuul ... looks like the lead singer in a Norwegian forest metal band. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 19, 2015
3/5	91%	Grandma (2015)	The light-handed pacing belies all that writer-director Paul Weitz packs in: abortion, politics, aging, health care, sexuality, economics and the radical notion that a woman can be the subject of her own life. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 19, 2015
1/5	14%	Return to Sender (2015)	Pike phones in a reprise of her Oscar-nominated "Gone Girl" performance, complete with brittle perfection and a loose screw. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 12, 2015
2/5	58%	Ten Thousand Saints (2015)	The cast all do well with banal material that's beneath them, especially Emily Watson, as Eliza's mom, and Hawke, who's everyone's dope-smoking, curfew-less fantasy friend-Dad. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 12, 2015
4/5	76%	People Places Things (2015)	This is boilerplate rom-com fare with few plot surprises. But thanks to witty dialogue, strong performances and sure-handed direction, the movie's also smart, hilarious and an absolute delight. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 12, 2015
3/5	92%	The Gift (2015)	Edgerton seems to have pulled "The Gift" right out of a time capsule from 1992. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 7, 2015
4/5	85%	Call Me Lucky (2015)	Angry, quixotic, tragic, heroic - Crimmins' life is stunning. Catch this portrait and you can definitely call yourself lucky. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 5, 2015
1/5	25%	Jenny's Wedding (2015)	It all feels outdated, simplistic and insulting to both the characters and the audience. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Jul 29, 2015
2/5	76%	The Kindergarten Teacher (Haganenet) (2015)	Slightly mesmerizing performances from Larry and young Shnaidman just manage to sustain interest in this quiet story. Even if it's going nowhere. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Jul 29, 2015
2/5	20%	Extinction (2015)	The film's core problems: too little zombie and too much plot. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Jul 29, 2015
2/5	11%	Frank The Bastard (2015)	Why doesn't Wendy Vanden Heuvel do more film? As Clair's cranky cousin Alice, she does more acting with a smirk and a turtleneck than the rest of the cast combined. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Jul 22, 2015
4/5	62%	Samba (2015)	There are just a few too many scenes, and they go on a tick too long. But, well, you could just as easily call that breathing room and fine direction. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Jul 22, 2015
2/5	36%	Ardor (2015)	Writer-director Pablo Fendrik may well have been shooting here for "Pale Rider." But "Ardor" is more like pale imitation. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Jul 16, 2015
3/5	40%	Lila & Eve (2015)	What is vital is Davis' wrenching performance as a mother who's done everything right, but remains powerless to keep her children safe. Then there's Lopez, dialing up slow-burning weariness into a crackling heat, and reminding you why you like her. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Jul 16, 2015
0/5	No Score Yet	Mad Women (2015)	It's a good thing writer-director Jeff Lipsky is a film distributor in real life. He's his own best hope for getting this dreck out there. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Jul 9, 2015
2/5	86%	Tap World (2015)	Director Dean Hargrove's claim to fame was inventing "Matlock." After sitting through "Tap World," I can assure you it still is. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Jul 8, 2015
3/5	62%	Jackie & Ryan (2015)	For a Katherine Heigl vehicle, "Jackie & Ryan" stars a whole lot of Ben Barnes. Not that there's anything wrong with that. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Jul 1, 2015
3/5	91%	Fresh Dressed (2015)	[An] engaging history of hip-hop fashion ... - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Jun 25, 2015
2/5	24%	7 Minutes (2015)	Well, that was the longest seven minutes of my life. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Jun 24, 2015
3/5	75%	Rubble Kings (2015)	"Rubble Kings" is the rare movie I actually wished were longer. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Jun 17, 2015
2/5	50%	Manglehorn (2015)	Al Pacino's pathetic is really, really pathetic. Even with a halfhearted drawl and in an uneventful story. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Jun 17, 2015
1/5	13%	The 11th Hour (2015)	Overwrought, underwritten and pure cynicism. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Jun 10, 2015
3/5	86%	The Wolfpack (2015)	There is a train-wreck quality to this film. The story is so astounding, you can't look away. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Jun 10, 2015
4/5	63%	Hungry Hearts (2015)	You can't take your eyes off Rohrwacher as she weaves back and forth between passionate and loving and obsessive and nuts. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Jun 4, 2015
3/5	59%	Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015)	"I was scared at least 10 times," I heard someone say upon leaving the theater. Not bad. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Jun 4, 2015
1/5	89%	I Believe in Unicorns (2015)	It's a teen-girl fantasy, Penthouse Forum for the Sassy set - a 1990s nostalgia trip complete with smoking, pay phones and developing pictures from film. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted May 27, 2015
3/5	69%	Sunset Edge (2015)	The one thing that's lacking? A payoff. [But] director Daniel Peddle gets great performances from his non-professional cast and expertly builds a taut and disturbing atmosphere. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted May 27, 2015
2/5	16%	Aloft (2015)	Deep - deep! - in this impenetrable block of ice is an actual, OK story. But the patience it takes to get to it? The return on investment just isn't there. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted May 21, 2015
3/5	92%	Sunshine Superman (2015)	An informative, if not engrossing, history of a sport. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted May 20, 2015
1/5	32%	Every Secret Thing (2015)	"Every Secret Thing" is far less than the sum of its parts. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted May 13, 2015
4/5	93%	I'll See You in My Dreams (2015)	The movie is by turns a romance, a chick flick, a coming-of-age film and even a stoner movie. There's something for everyone, with the possible exception of cretins who don't appreciate great writing, casting, directing and especially acting. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted May 13, 2015
1/5	60%	Saint Laurent (2015)	A shallow, confusing, 2-1/2-hour slog through the life of legendary French designer Yves Saint Laurent. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted May 7, 2015
1/5	53%	The D Train (2015)	Black's narcissistic, obsessive, stunted Dan is so careless about all his relationships - with his wife, son, boss - that you wonder how he ever had them in the first place. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted May 7, 2015
2/5	50%	Ride (2015)	Here's the thing about playing someone who's tiresome and unpleasant: You run the risk of creating a movie that's tiresome and unpleasant. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Apr 30, 2015
2/5	46%	Gerontophilia (2015)	Katie Boland is ... a force of nature as Lake's feminist ex - who gets off on reciting the names of her favorite female revolutionaries. But neither she nor Borden can mitigate this film's ultimately creepy premise. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Apr 28, 2015
2/5	48%	Adult Beginners (2015)	The not-funny-enough dialogue can't mask writer Kroll's unoriginal plot. Still, he can smirk with the best of them. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Apr 23, 2015
3/5	56%	The Age of Adaline (2015)	Plausibility, shmausibility. This is pretty schmaltz done right. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Apr 23, 2015
2/5	74%	Alex of Venice (2015)	The film is so uneven, the characters and relationships so undeveloped, it's hard to work up much sympathy. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Apr 16, 2015
2/5	70%	5 to 7 (2015)	There must have been pretty slim pickings at the Neil Simon store by the time "5 to 7" writer-director Victor Levin got there. - New York Daily News EDIT Read More \| Posted Apr 2, 2015