Richard Knight
Tomatometer-approved critic
| Publications: | Windy City Times, Knight at the Movies |
| Critics' Group: | Chicago Film Critics Association |
| Official Websites: | knightatthemovies.com |
Movie Reviews Only
| Rating | T-Meter | Title | Year | Review |
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| 60% | Lazy Eye (2016) |
Writer-director Tim Kirkman's Lazy Eye is also performance-driven, quietly powerful and palpably sexy, although it's filled to the brim with dialogue-tons of it. ‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Oct 6, 2017
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| 90% | Loving (2016) |
Negga is a wonder as the quiet storm at the center of the film, conveying much of her performance through her amazing eyes that telegraphs enormous strength.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Nov 15, 2016
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| 59% | Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (2016) |
Best of all, of course, are those two incorrigibles Edina and Patsy -- as endearingly, hilariously awful as ever.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Aug 9, 2016
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| 91% | The Witness (2016) |
The result is both a loving homage and a truly thought-provoking redress of history.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Aug 9, 2016
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| 95% | Eye In The Sky (2016) |
A thought-provoking and very entertaining ride driven by [Helen] Mirren's uncompromising performance.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Apr 13, 2016
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| 83% | Hello, My Name is Doris (2016) |
A charming ugly duckling story with some surprising and very welcome turns.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Apr 13, 2016
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| 88% | Tab Hunter Confidential (2015) |
Those with an interest in both Hollywood and queer history will find much to like here.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Dec 1, 2015
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| 72% | Suffragette (2015) |
Mulligan's richly detailed performance holds you and makes the sometimes unbearable journey that is Suffragette worth the trip back in time.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Oct 28, 2015
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| 98% | Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2014) |
Sensationally entertaining.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Jan 5, 2015
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| 96% | The Innocents (1961) |
That rare ghost story that fires on all cylinders: it's tremendously acted, sensationally photographed in deep-focus black and white, sumptuously produced and, best, genuinely frightening.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Oct 2, 2014
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| 32% | At The Devil's Door (2014) |
McCarthy's marvelously unnerving set pieces are in service to a headscratcher of a story that never coagulates.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Oct 2, 2014
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| 42% | This Is Where I Leave You (2014) |
deserves to get left behind‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Oct 2, 2014
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| 82% | The Two Faces of January (2014) |
Stylish, cinematically lush and well-acted by its gorgeous three leads.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Oct 2, 2014
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| 87% | The Skeleton Twins (2014) |
Announces the arrival of a remarkable talent and I eagerly await (Craig) Johnson's next film.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Oct 2, 2014
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| 30% | The Last Of Robin Hood (2014) |
The careful handling of the story has the unintended effect of sucking the life ( and practically all the juice ) out of what could have been a more-than-delicious piece of cinema trash.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Oct 2, 2014
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| 44% | Yves Saint Laurent (2014) |
stylish-boy, is it stylish-but lacking in substance. ‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Oct 2, 2014
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| 91% | To Be Takei (2014) |
A lively and warm tribute.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Oct 2, 2014
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| 93% | Love Is Strange (2014) |
Driven by the tour de force performances of John Lithgow and Alfred Molina, Love Is Strange...is artful and beautifully realized.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Oct 2, 2014
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| 35% | The Giver (2014) |
Vaguely enjoyable but rather pedestrian-a quasi-Pleasantville.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Oct 2, 2014
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| 91% | The Dog (2014) |
As entertaining as its central subject.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Oct 2, 2014
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| 21% | Into The Storm (2014) |
(Will) blow out of town as quickly as it came.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Oct 2, 2014
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| 69% | The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014) |
Familiar yet diverting‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Oct 2, 2014
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| 84% | Violette (2014) |
The movie really captures the often lonely, torturous existence of the true artist-a huge feat in itself.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Oct 2, 2014
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| 91% | Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) |
An exhilarating delight-a tongue-in-cheek, big-budget sci-fi blockbuster that could easily be this generation's Star Wars.‐ Knight at the Movies
Read More | Posted Oct 2, 2014
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| 66% | Lucy (2014) |
Faster than the speed of light, Lucy is certainly the best film I've seen this summer.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Oct 2, 2014
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| 24% | Tammy (2014) |
An amiable but rather thin road comedy.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Jul 6, 2014
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| 53% | Jersey Boys (2014) |
Ironically, as the credits are rolling, Eastwood finally deigns to elevate the music and the energy to a level that the preceding 132 minutes could have desperately used.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Jun 28, 2014
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| 92% | The Case Against 8 (2014) |
The fight for marriage equality has never been more thrillingly recorded than in this at turns exciting and deeply moving film.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Jun 28, 2014
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| 27% | Burning Blue (2014) |
Describing Burning Blue as a gay variation on Top Gun with heart and soul ( and one with more than a dash of Brokeback Mountain thrown in for good measure ) just about sums up its appeal perfectly.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Jun 28, 2014
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| 90% | X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) |
The picture has the energy of a classic cliffhanger serial and really zips along, skipping from one plot point to the next.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Jun 28, 2014
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| 94% | The Normal Heart (2014) |
The collaboration between Murphy and Kramer seemed like a natural from the moment it was announced, and now we have the proof of that sensible decision -- in all its incendiary, heart-wrenching magnificence.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Jun 28, 2014
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| 91% | Big Joy (2014) |
As spritely put together as its subject -- another winning aspect of this charming look at the life of a free spirit whose life and work are an important part of queer history.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Jun 28, 2014
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| 100% | God Loves Uganda (2013) |
A vitally important film that hopefully will also serve as a reminder to the U.S. LGBTQ movement that complacency about our hard-won freedoms is far from being a global thing. Far from it.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Jun 28, 2014
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| 73% | Neighbors (2014) |
You either agree to partake in the beer pong of a plot before laying down your money or stay home.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Jun 28, 2014
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| 36% | The Quiet Ones (2014) |
Things certainly do go bump in the night--and the day and the morning and at just about every other possible moment that Pogue can toss in an amped-up sound effect to scare the pants off his hopefully susceptible viewers.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Jun 28, 2014
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| 96% | Blue Ruin (2014) |
A crafty little thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat--in all the ways that are good and familiar. ‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Jun 28, 2014
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| 91% | Child's Pose (2014) |
Child's Pose, in addition to featuring [its] sensational mother-son act, is a fascinating look into a corrupt society that is at times equally jaw-dropping.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Jun 28, 2014
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| 51% | Hateship Loveship (2014) |
Director Liza Johnston elicits some very affecting performances from her talented actors but these are in service to [Wiig's] rather colorless character whose blossoming is a bit hard to fall for.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Jun 28, 2014
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| 89% | Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) |
I will pay $50 to anyone who can prove that one single audience member worldwide texted "OMG, this plot is fantastic!" at any point during or after the movie.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Jun 28, 2014
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| 65% | Bad Words (2014) |
Bateman...is one of those actors whose immense warmth can't be concealed no matter how disagreeable the character and he manages...to keep the fraying edges...forgivable.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Jun 28, 2014
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| 91% | The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) |
The ultimate reason why [it] feels fresh and vibrant [is because] it harkens so far back in movie history to find its inspiration that it proves the old "everything old is new again" maxim is true.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Jun 28, 2014
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| 30% | The Monuments Men (2014) |
A fidgety movie that because of its star wattage, great subject matter and shoehorned-in random jaunty moments sometimes entertains but never really satisfies.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Jun 28, 2014
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| 66% | Reaching for the Moon (2013) |
Baretto's movie, which is sensual and emotionally intense, benefits from [its] traditional approach and I don't think audiences who love to revel in this kind of movie will mind it, either.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Jun 28, 2014
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| No Score Yet | Pit Stop (2013) |
One of those small miracles that cinemaphiles justly revel in and it's a supreme addition to the queer-cinema canon. ‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Jun 28, 2014
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| 94% | Her (2013) |
A lyrical, deeply felt movie with a surprisingly gentle spirit.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Jun 28, 2014
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| 78% | The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) |
[An] ultimately hollow exercise in movie excess.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Jun 28, 2014
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| 65% | August: Osage County (2013) |
New Hollywood motto: Never act with kids, dogs or Streep--when she's in Mommie Dearest mode, that is.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Jun 28, 2014
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| 93% | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) |
A perfectly realized period piece, so gorgeously shot it looks almost painterly but it's so god-awful grim and...so tightly focused on such a disagreeable character that I greeted its fade out as the equivalent of the end of a migraine headache.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Jun 28, 2014
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| 93% | American Hustle (2013) |
An entertaining but bloated, starry, Grand Hotel-sized con artist caper that looks, sounds and feels like Scorsese without a smidgen of the electricity he effortlessly brings to his pictures.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Jun 28, 2014
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| 100% | Six By Sondheim (2013) |
A rich portrait of this great treasure of the American musical.‐ Windy City Times
Read More | Posted Jun 28, 2014
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