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KEN HANKE
Ken Hanke

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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

BIOGRAPHY
Author of books KEN RUSSELL'S FILMS, CHARLIE CHAN AT THE MOVIES, A CRITICAL GUIDE TO HORROR FILM SERIES, TIM BURTON: AN UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY OF THE FILMMAKER.
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Total Reviews: 1383
Total QuickRatings: 2114

CRITICS GROUP(S)
Southeastern Film Critics Association

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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
4.5/5 No Country for Old Men
4/5 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
3.5/5 Stephen King's The Mist
3/5 August Rush
2.5/5 Love in the Time of Cholera
2/5 The List
1.5/5 Prom Night
1/5 Awake
.5/5 Meet the Spartans
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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5/5 I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname
5/5 The Band's Visit
5/5 Titus
5/5 Taxi to the Dark Side
5/5 Excalibur
5/5 Be Kind Rewind
5/5 Juno
5/5 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
5/5 Jules And Jim
5/5 The Darjeeling Limited
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WORST REVIEWED
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0/4 Enough
.5/5 Troll 2
.5/5 Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
.5/5 Witless Protection
.5/5 Over Her Dead Body
.5/5 The Eye
.5/5 Meet the Spartans
.5/5 The Heartbreak Kid
.5/5 Good Luck Chuck
.5/5 Mr. Woodcock
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

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3.5/5
 
"It's all so delightfully over-the-top that it could only be disliked by persons approaching it as a serious drama."
Posted Jul 22, 2008
 
The Wicked Lady (1983)n/a
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.5/5
 
"There are movies that are bad. There are movies that are so-bad-they're-good. And then there's Troll 2 -- a movie that's so bad that it defies comprehension."
Posted Jul 22, 2008
 
Troll 2 (1992)0%
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2.5/5
 
"Modestly entertaining and moderately painless. Under the circumstances, perhaps it would be unfair to ask for more. In any case, you won't get it."
Posted Jul 22, 2008
 
Space Chimps (2008)38%
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2/5
 
"Unless you buy into this ersatz jubilance and its grim determination to make you feel good, you're apt to long for a tranquilizer gun by the 20-minute mark."
Posted Jul 22, 2008
 
Mamma Mia! (2008)53%
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4/5
 
"A must-see for Ledger alone, but there's more to it than that. If anything, the film is a grim portrait of our own paranoia, sense of hopelessness and selfishness."
Posted Jul 22, 2008
 
The Dark Knight (2008)95%
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4.5/5
 
"In many ways, Lelouch's film is -- in its somewhat old-fashioned way (which isn't a pejorative) -- the most bracing dose of cinema I've seen all year."
Posted Jul 16, 2008
 
Roman de Gare (2008)88%
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4/5
 
"The problem with the film, more than anything, is getting beyond the idea of it not being Bogie and Bacall up there on the screen."
Posted Jul 16, 2008
 
Big Sleep (1978)n/a
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3/5
 
"A pleasantly cast mediocrity that scores slightly higher marks in its 3-D incarnation."
Posted Jul 16, 2008
 
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)60%
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4.5/5
 
"Here's a comic-book movie with a heart, a soul, a brain and a personality of its own -- as personal in its own way as del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth."
Posted Jul 16, 2008
 
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)87%
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3.5/5
 
"Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood is such a good-natured mess of a movie that it's hard not to like it."
Posted Jul 9, 2008
 
Won Ton Ton, The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)n/a
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4/5
 
"As surprising as finding vegetables in a bowl of vegetable soup, Kit Kittredge still comes as a little oasis of thoughtfulness in a summer largely devoted to property damage."
Posted Jul 9, 2008
 
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)80%
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2/5
 
"The phony mythos turns into equally spurious pathos that plays like bathos because not one iota of the sentiment or sympathy has been earned."
Posted Jul 9, 2008
 
Hancock (2008)38%
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3.5/5
 
"Largely a reshuffling of tried and true (in some cases, trite and true) elements with a shiny new coat of paint."
Posted Jul 2, 2008
 
Wanted (2008)72%
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4/5
 
"As soon as WALL-E stows away on the spaceship in pursuit of EVE, the film turns into something a lot less special and a lot more like a fairly typical animated movie."
Posted Jul 2, 2008
 
WALL-E (2008)96%
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3.5/5
 
"Haunting as the film is, it never feels quite cohesive."
Posted Jun 25, 2008
 
The Ogre (1996)100%
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5/5
 
"Winner mixes kitchen-sink realism with flights of fantasy and Bergman-esque dream sequences in a spectacularly successful manner."
Posted Jun 25, 2008
 
I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname (1967)n/a
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4/5
 
"One of the best, most intelligent movies out there right now."
Posted Jun 25, 2008
 
Then She Found Me (2008)54%
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4/5
 
"A great picture? No, but an intriguing one."
Posted Jun 18, 2008
 
Black Rainbow (1991)n/a
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2/5
 
"What you end up with is a cross between Roland Emmerich's The Day After Tomorrow and Shyamalan's Signs."
Posted Jun 18, 2008
 
The Happening (2008)19%
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3.5/5
 
"A case of 'good for what it is' writ large."
Posted Jun 18, 2008
 
The Incredible Hulk (2008)67%
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4/5
 
"A surprisingly dense, multilayered documentary on the painter Alice Neel."
Posted Jun 11, 2008
 
Alice Neel (2007)73%
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2.5/5
 
"Isn't all that different from any number of old Adam Sandler pictures. That's to say that it's not very good, and you probably won't find it terribly funny."
Posted Jun 11, 2008
 
You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)34%
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4/5
 
"The near genius of the film -- big-name stars doing voices to one side -- is that it almost completely eschews the snarky postmodern, pop-culture-referencing sensibility."
Posted Jun 11, 2008
 
Kung Fu Panda (2008)88%
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4.5/5
 
"A breath of champagne on a warm summer night."
Posted Jun 11, 2008
 
Priceless (2008)83%
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3.5/5
 
"It's easier to admire Twilight for its intent and its astonishing cast than for what it actually achieves."
Posted Jun 3, 2008
 
Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)86%
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4.5/5
 
"Jennings has crafted a work that beautifully -- and humorously -- evokes childhood and the impact of movies on children."
Posted Jun 3, 2008
 
Son of Rambow (2008)75%
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1/5
 
"If you've seen the annoying trailer for Bryan Bertino's singularly pointless debut feature, you've seen all the film has to offer -- minus 88 minutes of tedious sadism."
Posted Jun 3, 2008
 
The Strangers (2008)41%
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3.5/5
 
"It's hard not to admire the film for its peculiar tone."
Posted Jun 2, 2008
 
The Comic (1969)n/a
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4/5
 
"A solid four stars worth of magnficent disaster."
Posted May 28, 2008
 
Candy (1968)80%
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3.5/5
 
"Crystal Skull can be an amusing couple of hours, even if it's hardly the 'event' it ought to have been."
Posted May 28, 2008
 
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)76%
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4.5/5
 
"The charms and wonders of the film lie in the performances of the leads, all of whom are better than perfect -- they feel real."
Posted May 28, 2008
 
The Visitor (2008)92%
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3.5/5
 
"As a fantasy action movie, there's enough about Prince Caspian that works to make it an enjoyable rather than punishing experience."
Posted May 21, 2008
 
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)66%
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4.5/5
 
"It's essentially a gloriously romantic film made by a very romantic filmmaker who can see beauty where none supposedly exists."
Posted May 21, 2008
 
My Blueberry Nights (2008)47%
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4.5/5
 
"The full flowering of Berkeley's particular genius -- and in incredibly saturated Technicolor, no less -- while being a lesser effort as concerns the nonmusical portions."
Posted May 14, 2008
 
The Gang's All Here (1944)n/a
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4/5
 
"There's a sense of pure evil clinging to the film like nothing I've ever experienced. I do not believe this is unintentional, nor do I believe it is pointless."
Posted May 14, 2008
 
Salo, Or The 120 Days of Sodom (1975)74%
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4/5
 
"In the running as one of the best horror pictures of the '30s."
Posted May 14, 2008
 
The Black Room (1935)n/a
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3.5/5
 
"The Wachowski's stand revealed -- for better or worse -- as having made something like a $100 million experimental movie."
Posted May 14, 2008
 
Speed Racer (2008)36%
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4/5
 
"A pretty good picture turned into something like a really good picture by virtue of Chiwetel Ejiofor's performance."
Posted May 14, 2008
 
Redbelt (2008)71%
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3.5/5
 
"Too much of a good thing being bombarded with an hour and a half of trippy images that appear to be lecturing me on how miserable, yet strangely beautiful, modern life is."
Posted May 7, 2008
 
Naqoyqatsi (2002)49%
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4/5
 
"Go spend 77 minutes with Pearl Fryar and his garden. You'll feel better for it."
Posted May 7, 2008
 
A Man Named Pearl (2008)63%
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4/5
 
"Iron Man has its flaws, but they're not enough to keep the film from being a good time at the movies."
Posted May 7, 2008
 
Iron Man (2008)93%
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4.5/5
 
"May not quite live up to the daunting implication of its title, but as a solid piece of beautifully acted and precisely written filmmaking, you'll find nothing better."
Posted May 7, 2008
 
Flawless (2007)59%
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3.5/5
 
"An engaging work of no small charm -- and one of the few exercises in first-person narrative filmmaking I've seen that really works."
Posted May 5, 2008
 
Fix (2008)n/a
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3.5/5
 
"Thoroughly watchable with flashes of inspired filmmaking, and it has a sincerity that, even when wrong headed, cannot be denied."
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
Under the Same Moon (2008)73%
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4/5
 
"By no means a great film, but it's a very good one that ought to be better known than it is."
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
The End of the Game (1976)60%
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4.5/5
 
"Ruzowitzky's film is certainly a worthy one -- and an entertaining, intelligent one -- anchored to one of the most mesmerizing performances I've seen in a while."
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
The Counterfeiters (2008)94%
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2.5/5
 
"Plays like desperate repackagings of the first movie's more successful set pieces -- with the accent on desperate and the freshness level down to zero."
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)54%
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2/5
 
"Deception isn't deceiving anybody, except maybe the folks who slapped that idiotically generic title on it."
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
Deception (2008)11%
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4/5
 
"Agreeable, nicely adult entertainment that's satisfying without ever being exciting."
Posted Apr 22, 2008
 
Married Life (2008)57%
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4/5
 
"Martin Scorsese comes as close as anyone is likely to get capturing the electricity of a Stones concert with Shine a Light."
Posted Apr 22, 2008
 
Shine a Light (2008)86%

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