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HANK SARTIN
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• Chicago Reader
• Time Out
• Time Out New York

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Chicago Reader film critic.
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Total Reviews: 37


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" Just take our advice and bring tissues. You’re going to need them." -- Time Out
Posted Nov 25, 2008
 
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)98%
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3/6
 
" [Hardwicke's] earnest, moody approach to Stephenie Meyer’s tremendously popular novel may be just the thing for the 14-year-old girl in all of us." -- Time Out New York
Posted Nov 20, 2008
 
Twilight (2008)44%
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3/6
 
" [Director] Mark Herman knows how to milk the melodrama from every scene, but viewers may feel a little icky about the experience." -- Time Out New York
Posted Nov 5, 2008
 
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)64%
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4/6
 
" With Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Smith seems eager to retake the fast-talking-filth crown, and also get in on a little of Apatow’s racket of throwing in some sentimentality." -- Time Out New York
Posted Oct 29, 2008
 
Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)64%
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2/6
 
" No one actually cares if the story adds up in a movie based on a video game. Audiences expect to have their nerve endings stimulated (or frayed), as they will be by the aggressive, bass-heavy sound mix." -- Time Out New York
Posted Oct 15, 2008
 
Max Payne (2008)18%
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3/6
 
" We’re not asking for another Brian’s Song, but does Davis’s tale have to seem like a rehash of Remember the Titans?" -- Time Out New York
Posted Oct 8, 2008
 
The Express (2008)61%
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3/6
 
" How to Lose is toothless, substituting broad humor and a romance for the needed cynicism." -- Time Out New York
Posted Oct 1, 2008
 
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)38%
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3/6
 
" Kinnear, a generally underappreciated actor, holds the picture together almost by force of will." -- Time Out New York
Posted Oct 1, 2008
 
Flash of Genius (2008)57%
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2/6
 
" Nicholas Sparks’s novels are to Harlequin romances as international coffees are to Nescafé: Marketed as having a little dash of class, they’re still ersatz java." -- Time Out New York
Posted Sep 24, 2008
 
Nights in Rodanthe (2008)30%
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2/6
 
" A few inspired bits can’t save this piece of candy from its own gooey center." -- Time Out New York
Posted Sep 17, 2008
 
Igor (2008)32%
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2/6
 
" Bafflingly, this poorly executed, undercooked comedy was the big winner at Sundance this year." -- Time Out New York
Posted Aug 22, 2008
 
Hamlet 2 (2008)63%
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2/6
 
" This ugly, lumbering mess feels strangely like a tired Star Wars wanna-be, but made by people with the rights to the characters." -- Time Out New York
Posted Aug 14, 2008
 
The Clone Wars (2008)19%
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3/6
 
" If you can let go of your memories of the novel and the outstanding 1981 miniseries, this is enjoyable enough as tasteful melodrama." -- Time Out New York
Posted Jul 24, 2008
 
Brideshead Revisited (2008)64%
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3/6
 
" This movie isn’t just unapologetic fluff; it’s aggressive, out-loud-and-proud fluff. Just like ABBA." -- Time Out New York
Posted Jul 16, 2008
 
Mamma Mia! (2008)53%
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3/6
 
" The only real fun is watching old pros like Arkin and Stamp sell material that doesn’t deserve the love they give it. There’s nothing terribly wrong here, but there’s nothing terribly right, either. Missed it by that much" -- Time Out New York
Posted Jun 18, 2008
 
Get Smart (2008)53%
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3/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted May 22, 2008
 
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)66%
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" This Cartoon Network feature-length animation manages to teach kids some good lessons and amuse the grown-ups without overdosing on pop-culture references." -- Chicago Reader
Posted May 20, 2008
 
The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002)64%
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3/6
 
" It’s frankly exhausting, and like that bag of Skittles, it won’t really satisfy your hunger. But look at all those bright, shiny colors." -- Time Out New York
Posted May 8, 2008
 
Speed Racer (2008)37%
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2/6
 
" Writer-director Eva Aridjis has a flat style that’s frankly numbing; Wood tries valiantly, but he and Donowho are both dragged down by the script." -- Time Out New York
Posted Apr 30, 2008
 
The Favor (2008)39%
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" Jason Statham uses his smoldering charisma to great effect." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Apr 16, 2008
 
The Transporter (2002)53%
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2/6
 
" A police thriller that’s desperate to be gritty, Street Kings boasts a protagonist so dumb it takes him an hour of screen time to realize a 'plot twist' we assumed was a given." -- Time Out New York
Posted Apr 10, 2008
 
Street Kings (2008)36%
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3/6
 
" After the shrewd, in-depth analysis of No Direction Home, we expect more from Scorsese than two hours of perfectly framed close-ups of Mick." -- Time Out New York
Posted Apr 3, 2008
 
Shine a Light (2008)86%
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3/6
 
" While Phillippe does a creditable job and Cornish is suitably torn by her divided loyalties to two men, Tatum and especially Gordon-Levitt are utterly wasted, used like extras when either of their stories seems interesting enough for a film of its own." -- Time Out New York
Posted Mar 27, 2008
 
Stop-Loss (2008)65%
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2/6
 
" The eternal battle between the hot-but-arrogant blond and the hot-and-likable brunet continues on new turf in the almost gleefully bad Never Back Down." -- Time Out New York
Posted Mar 14, 2008
 
Never Back Down (2008)23%
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4/6
 
" If [director] Bharat Nalluri can’t always sustain the fizz, it’s certainly not Adams’s fault; this is another eye-catching performance from the actor, who seems to be specializing in playing dumb." -- Time Out New York
Posted Mar 7, 2008
 
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)77%
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2/6
 
Click here to read article -- Time Out New York
Posted Jan 18, 2008
 
August Rush (2007)37%
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3/6
 
" In legal terms, Mad Money isn’t a felony; it’s more like a misdemeanor." -- Time Out New York
Posted Jan 17, 2008
 
Mad Money (2008)21%
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" Eigeman has been in training for this kind of thing for years, but the pleasant surprise is Janssen, who shows a gift for clever dialogue. This is light fare, but it’s smart, enjoyable light fare." -- Time Out
Posted Aug 9, 2007
 
The Treatment (2007)68%
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" For the Broadway babies out there, ShowBusiness will make you want to schedule a trip to the Great White Way." -- Time Out
Posted Jul 12, 2007
 
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (2007)88%
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" Individual sequences generate an eerie tension that's always deflated, creating a jarring stop-and-go rhythm, and the atmospheric trickery never strays beyond a lot of smoke and mirrors." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Jun 6, 2007
 
Signs (2002)74%
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" All the uplift could easily get cloying, but director John Lee Hancock knows how to keep things in control, and the whole is surprisingly satisfying." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Mar 26, 2007
 
The Rookie (2002)82%
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" In their quest for the youth market, Hollywood hacks often dress up their old script ideas in baggy pants and backward baseball caps, but I hope American kids aren't dumb enough to swallow this awful extreme-sports adventure." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Mar 6, 2007
 
Extreme Ops (2002)6%
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" I expected this to be much funnier: Latifah coasts on her charm, and Fallon seems incapable of playing an actual character." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Feb 27, 2007
 
Taxi (2004)11%
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" Every joke is stretched to the breaking point, and no one seems to be having any fun." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Jan 8, 2007
 
The Whole Ten Yards (2004)5%
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" Nothing's quite so painful as failed comedy, and this atrocity is equivalent to a compound fracture." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Jan 5, 2007
 
National Lampoon's Gold Diggers (2004)0%
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" Romantic comedy ought to have some romance and laughs, but this extraordinarily flat effort has neither." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Jan 3, 2007
 
Serving Sara (2002)5%
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" Director Zak Tucker is a bit too fond of jump cuts as signifiers of edginess. Still, when the material doesn't get in the way he's pretty good at getting across the emotional content." -- Chicago Reader
Posted Aug 10, 2006
 
Poster Boy (2006)26%

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