Kirk Honeycutt

Tomatometer-approved critic

Publications: Hollywood Reporter, honeycuttshollywood.com

Critics' Group: Los Angeles Film Critics Association

Movie Reviews Only

Movies

	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Review
	95%	Position Among the Stars (2011)	Rentel Helmrich has intimately captured a family in transition as they adjust to bewildering gaps in education, outlook, religion and even class among three generations jammed into cramped quarters. - Hollywood Reporter EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 20, 2018
	59%	Face (2002)	[Pan's] actors are exceptional. - Hollywood Reporter EDIT Read More \| Posted Oct 19, 2018
	98%	Say Anything... (1989)	Say Anything is an easy film to like. - Hollywood Reporter EDIT Read More \| Posted Apr 14, 2017
7/10	66%	Tommy's Honour (2017)	Jason Connery's 'Tommy's Honour' unpacks early history of golf to satisfying dramatic results. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Apr 13, 2017
4/10	36%	The Great Wall (2017)	The vision here is that of producers with eyes on box office and little concern for creativity. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Feb 22, 2017
7/10	89%	20th Century Women (2017)	Mike Mills gets just the right bittersweet tone here. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 23, 2017
4/10	80%	Patriots Day (2017)	Too many compromises undermine the latest Peter Berg/Mark Wahlberg collaboration. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 16, 2017
4/10	74%	Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)	The story itself is unwieldy, padded and almost entirely reliant upon CGI for forward momentum. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 21, 2016
9/10	94%	Arrival (2016)	"Arrival" embarrasses the current mode of contemporary cinema to explore ideas, moods and a vision that belongs uniquely to this film. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 14, 2016
6/10	23%	Inferno (2016)	Ron Howard is good at detailing exactly how people escape a remorseless fate and pulp fiction such as "Inferno" is no exception. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Oct 31, 2016
4/10	38%	Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)	Thanks to Tom Cruise and Ed Zwick, 'Jack Reacher' does transcend the limitations of its genre and a by-the-numbers screenplay. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Oct 24, 2016
5/10	61%	The Light Between Oceans (2016)	Pictorial beauty in a David Lean sort of way and a mesmerizing quality might convince a viewer 'The Light Between Oceans,' a contrived and emotionally manipulative tale, has real credibility. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 2, 2016
3/10	37%	Morgan (2016)	The utter failure of 'Morgan' underscores what happens when a filmmaker enters strip-mined territory with nary an original idea. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 31, 2016
5/10	66%	Anthropoid (2016)	The shame is that for all the years of research and planning that went into making this film, Sean Ellis didn't allow himself the luxury of invention. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 12, 2016
9/10	97%	Hell or High Water (2016)	"Hell or High Water" may be the best picture released so far in 2016. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 11, 2016
6/10	88%	Pete's Dragon (2016)	With 'Pete's Dragon' you sense a rare opportunity for a Disney classic slipped through the filmmakers' fingers. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 10, 2016
8/10	88%	Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)	Stephen Frears' film achieves that remarkable and nearly unobtainable artistic plateau of sad-funny. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 9, 2016
4/10	27%	Suicide Squad (2016)	David Ayer is of the realist school of action filmmaking and this doesn't jibe well with fantastical fights and outrageous cartoon characters. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 5, 2016
6/10	85%	Tallulah (2016)	"Tallulah" is one of those films on a filmmaker's resume that denotes promise more than accomplishment. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Jul 26, 2016
7/10	98%	Don't Think Twice (2016)	"Don't Think Twice" is one of the better movies you'll see about what it takes to establish a viable career in show business. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Jul 20, 2016
5/10	71%	Café Society (2016)	The movie's final grace note is deeply felt, so much so you wish Woody Allen had chosen another route to get there. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Jul 14, 2016
6/10	82%	Captain Fantastic (2016)	Well worth catching if only for a lively debate afterwards about the advantages/disadvantages of unplugged rearing and education programs for children. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Jul 9, 2016
6/10	73%	The Secret Life of Pets (2016)	Illumination Entertainment has concocted an easy-to-like and easy-to-laugh animated feature for mostly smaller viewers. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Jul 8, 2016
2/10	36%	Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016)	What Mike and Dave really need are a few jokes, a coherent screenplay and some direction - any direction at all might have helped. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Jul 5, 2016
6/10	36%	The Legend of Tarzan (2016)	Given the challenges, which the filmmakers tiptoe through with surprising agility, the new 'Tarzan' is quite adequate in delivering old-fashioned adventures. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Jul 1, 2016
4/10	75%	The BFG (2016)	"The BFG" gets caught between old-fashioned Dickensian fairy stories and the new, exciting worlds imagined by the Pixar crew. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Jun 30, 2016
4/10	72%	Our Kind of Traitor (2016)	"Our Kind of Traitor" does many things well but the feeling afterwards is, unfortunately, one of disappointment. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Jun 28, 2016
8/10	46%	Free State of Jones (2016)	This may be one of the most honest American films about slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction ever made. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Jun 28, 2016
4/10	78%	The Shallows (2016)	The key missing ingredient in "The Shallows" is any motivation to make this movie other than a summer-time diversion. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Jun 24, 2016
7/10	91%	Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words (2016)	Thorsten Schüette's 'Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words' will, one hopes, restore Zappa to his rightful place in music history. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Jun 20, 2016
8/10	94%	Finding Dory (2016)	A world-wide aquatic playground filled with rambunctious slapstick, Dickensian sea creatures, astonishing visual beauty and relentless albeit implausible jeopardy. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Jun 16, 2016
7/10	95%	De Palma (2016)	Brian De Palma has been the most neglected of the '70s Movie Brats in recent critical discourse - and unfairly so. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Jun 14, 2016
4/10	53%	Genius (2016)	"Genius" represents a failed opportunity to get at the heart of the creative process. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Jun 9, 2016
5	58%	Money Monster (2016)	It's 'Dog Day Afternoon' meets 'Network' meets 'Inside Man' meets 'The King of Comedy' and that's far too many 'meets' to strike an original cord. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted May 12, 2016
4	47%	X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)	The end - of the movie, not the world -can't come soon enough. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted May 10, 2016
6	91%	Captain America: Civil War (2016)	The movie fumbles the question at the very heart of the Avengers but not before giving its fan base plenty of reasons to cheer. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted May 4, 2016
3	6%	Mother's Day (2016)	It's a hopeless task to point out incessant clichés, formulaic story structure and sappy nonsense that cheerfully take up residence in the Garry Marshall Experience - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Apr 29, 2016
7	62%	The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016)	Matthew Brown does a fine job of cutting through the math chat to give you the living, breathing men who collaborated and clashed a century ago. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Apr 27, 2016
7	77%	Elvis & Nixon (2016)	'Elvis & Nixon' catches both men at a nexus of absurdist comedy and overwhelming personality disorders. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Apr 20, 2016
8	72%	A Hologram for the King (2016)	'A Hologram for a King' is that fine and rare thing, a comedy that makes profound observations with the lightest of touches. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Apr 19, 2016
8	95%	The Jungle Book (2016)	'The Jungle Book' transports you back to childhood games surrounded by a photo-reality that commands awe with every frame. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Apr 13, 2016
2	22%	The Boss (2016)	Melissa McCarthy meet Michelle Darnell . You really should get to know each other better. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Apr 7, 2016
4	53%	Demolition (2016)	When everything in a movie is reduced to a metaphor then nothing is the least bit real. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Apr 6, 2016
5	35%	The Bronze (2016)	'The Bronze' is a sports movie that gets many things right although not enough to represent a game changer. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Mar 16, 2016
4	71%	Remember (2016)	Atom Egoyan chooses a risky approach to a Holocaust theme that many will find highly unsatisfying if not risible. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Mar 15, 2016
7	86%	The Clan (El Clan) (2016)	Perhaps what disturbs a viewer the most is director Pablo Trapero is making none of this up. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Mar 14, 2016
3	38%	The Brothers Grimsby (2016)	Sacha Baron Cohen - creator of Borat, Bruno and Ali G - loses his mojo big time in 'The Brothers Grimsby.' - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Mar 12, 2016
8	95%	Eye In The Sky (2016)	Never has a movie been able to wring so much tension from shots of people staring at screens and computer monitors. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Mar 7, 2016
2	26%	London Has Fallen (2016)	The film bears a closer resemblance to a shooter video game than an actual movie. - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Mar 4, 2016
8	97%	Zootopia (2016)	Donald Trump would scream 'loser' were he to see Disney's 'Zootopia.' - honeycuttshollywood.com EDIT Read More \| Posted Mar 3, 2016

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