Kirk Honeycutt
Tomatometer-approved critic
| Publications: | Hollywood Reporter, honeycuttshollywood.com |
| Critics' Group: | Los Angeles Film Critics Association |
Movie Reviews Only
| Rating | T-Meter | Title | Year | Review |
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| 100% | 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
Read More | Posted Nov 20, 2018
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| 59% | Face (2002) |
[Pan's] actors are exceptional.‐ Hollywood Reporter
Posted Oct 19, 2018
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| 98% | Say Anything... (1989) |
Say Anything is an easy film to like.‐ Hollywood Reporter
Read More | Posted Apr 14, 2017
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| 7/10 | 66% | Tommy's Honour (2017) |
Jason Connery's 'Tommy's Honour' unpacks early history of golf to satisfying dramatic results.‐ honeycuttshollywood.com
Read More | Posted Apr 13, 2017
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| 4/10 | 35% | The Great Wall (2017) |
The vision here is that of producers with eyes on box office and little concern for creativity.‐ honeycuttshollywood.com
Read More | Posted Feb 22, 2017
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| 7/10 | 89% | 20th Century Women (2017) |
Mike Mills gets just the right bittersweet tone here.‐ honeycuttshollywood.com
Read More | Posted Jan 23, 2017
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| 4/10 | 80% | Patriots Day (2017) |
Too many compromises undermine the latest Peter Berg/Mark Wahlberg collaboration.‐ honeycuttshollywood.com
Read More | Posted Jan 16, 2017
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| 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
Read More | Posted Nov 21, 2016
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| 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
Read More | Posted Nov 14, 2016
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| 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
Read More | Posted Oct 31, 2016
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| 4/10 | 37% | 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
Read More | Posted Oct 24, 2016
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| 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
Read More | Posted Sep 2, 2016
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| 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
Read More | Posted Aug 31, 2016
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| 5/10 | 65% | 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
Read More | Posted Aug 12, 2016
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| 9/10 | 97% | Hell or High Water (2016) |
"Hell or High Water" may be the best picture released so far in 2016.‐ honeycuttshollywood.com
Read More | Posted Aug 11, 2016
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| 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
Read More | Posted Aug 10, 2016
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| 8/10 | 87% | Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) |
Stephen Frears' film achieves that remarkable and nearly unobtainable artistic plateau of sad-funny.‐ honeycuttshollywood.com
Read More | Posted Aug 9, 2016
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| 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
Read More | Posted Aug 5, 2016
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| 6/10 | 84% | Tallulah (2016) |
"Tallulah" is one of those films on a filmmaker's resume that denotes promise more than accomplishment.‐ honeycuttshollywood.com
Read More | Posted Jul 26, 2016
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| 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
Read More | Posted Jul 20, 2016
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| 5/10 | 70% | 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
Read More | Posted Jul 14, 2016
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| 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
Read More | Posted Jul 9, 2016
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| 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
Read More | Posted Jul 8, 2016
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| 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
Read More | Posted Jul 5, 2016
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| 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
Read More | Posted Jul 1, 2016
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| 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
Read More | Posted Jun 30, 2016
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| 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
Read More | Posted Jun 28, 2016
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| 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
Read More | Posted Jun 28, 2016
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| 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
Read More | Posted Jun 24, 2016
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| 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
Read More | Posted Jun 20, 2016
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| 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
Read More | Posted Jun 16, 2016
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| 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
Read More | Posted Jun 14, 2016
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| 4/10 | 53% | Genius (2016) |
"Genius" represents a failed opportunity to get at the heart of the creative process.‐ honeycuttshollywood.com
Read More | Posted Jun 9, 2016
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| 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
Read More | Posted May 12, 2016
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| 4 | 48% | X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) |
The end - of the movie, not the world -can't come soon enough.‐ honeycuttshollywood.com
Read More | Posted May 10, 2016
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| 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
Read More | Posted May 4, 2016
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| 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
Read More | Posted Apr 29, 2016
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| 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
Read More | Posted Apr 27, 2016
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| 7 | 77% | Elvis & Nixon (2016) |
'Elvis & Nixon' catches both men at a nexus of absurdist comedy and overwhelming personality disorders.‐ honeycuttshollywood.com
Read More | Posted Apr 20, 2016
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| 8 | 73% | 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
Read More | Posted Apr 19, 2016
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| 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
Read More | Posted Apr 13, 2016
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| 2 | 22% | The Boss (2016) |
Melissa McCarthy meet Michelle Darnell . You really should get to know each other better.‐ honeycuttshollywood.com
Read More | Posted Apr 7, 2016
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| 4 | 52% | Demolition (2016) |
When everything in a movie is reduced to a metaphor then nothing is the least bit real.‐ honeycuttshollywood.com
Read More | Posted Apr 6, 2016
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| 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
Read More | Posted Mar 16, 2016
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| 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
Read More | Posted Mar 15, 2016
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| 7 | 88% | The Clan (El Clan) (2016) |
Perhaps what disturbs a viewer the most is director Pablo Trapero is making none of this up.‐ honeycuttshollywood.com
Read More | Posted Mar 14, 2016
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| 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
Read More | Posted Mar 12, 2016
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| 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
Read More | Posted Mar 7, 2016
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| 2 | 26% | London Has Fallen (2016) |
The film bears a closer resemblance to a shooter video game than an actual movie.‐ honeycuttshollywood.com
Read More | Posted Mar 4, 2016
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| 8 | 97% | Zootopia (2016) |
Donald Trump would scream 'loser' were he to see Disney's 'Zootopia.'‐ honeycuttshollywood.com
Read More | Posted Mar 3, 2016
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