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KEN HANKE
Ken Hanke

PUBLICATION(S)
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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STATS
Total Reviews: 1413
Total QuickRatings: 2109

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 Be Kind Rewind
4.5/5 There Will Be Blood
4/5 The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
3.5/5 Don Giovanni
3/5 Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert
2.5/5 Mad Money
2/5 The Bucket List
1.5/5 Prom Night
1/5 Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem
.5/5 Meet the Spartans
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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5/5 When Did You Last See Your Father?
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
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WORST REVIEWED
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0/4 Enough
.5/5 Disaster Movie
.5/5 Deadly Prey
.5/5 Step Brothers
.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
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

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4.5/5
 
"As adult entertainment, there's nothing around that can touch it."
Posted Sep 2, 2008
 
Elegy (2008)74%
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3/5
 
"I went as someone who finds religion a 50-50 mix of fascinating and indigestible. I came out the same and have no expectations of encountering a stucco savior any time soon."
Posted Sep 2, 2008
 
Henry Poole Is Here (2008)37%
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.5/5
 
"Every time one of these Friedberg-Seltzer movies is released the sum total of human knowledge is reduced."
Posted Sep 2, 2008
 
Disaster Movie (2008)0%
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3/5
 
"I'm not sure I've ever seen a film go straight to hell so quickly and so badly as this."
Posted Sep 2, 2008
 
Traitor (2008)53%
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1.5/5
 
"Much mayhem, brawling, dubious CGI, close encounters of the sexual kind and mystical gibberish ensue. Little of it makes sense. Less of it is exciting."
Posted Sep 2, 2008
 
Babylon A.D. (2008)7%
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4/5
 
"A kind of big-budget, all-star extravaganza the equivalent of which we really don't have today -- and for which mainstream movies are a little worse off."
Posted Aug 27, 2008
 
The Wind and the Lion (1975)67%
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.5/5
 
"No one gets out alive when Danton goes on the warpath, which seems a small price to pay for getting out of the movie."
Posted Aug 27, 2008
 
Deadly Prey (1987)n/a
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3.5/5
 
"There's also Alan Rickman as Steven Spurrier -- and when he's on-screen, all is right with this movie and the world."
Posted Aug 27, 2008
 
Bottle Shock (2008)46%
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3/5
 
"There's nothing all that wrong with The Rocker. It's just that it's ordinary to a spectacular degree."
Posted Aug 27, 2008
 
The Rocker (2008)35%
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3/5
 
"The new Death Race is awash in a kind of gray-brown desperation-chrome look. Any sense of cheeky, tasteless fun has vanished."
Posted Aug 27, 2008
 
Death Race (2008)40%
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3/5
 
"Plods along its bumbling, good-natured path to exactly the conclusion you expected before you were handed the ticket."
Posted Aug 27, 2008
 
The House Bunny (2008)40%
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4/5
 
"It's all a lot like early period John Waters -- only better acted and set in Madrid."
Posted Aug 20, 2008
 
What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1985)100%
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4/5
 
"One of the year's most charming and sly works -- as well as perhaps the saddest film in the filmmaker's entire oeuvre."
Posted Aug 20, 2008
 
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)81%
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3.5/5
 
"If you found Aja's previous films repellent, vile and stupid, this may make you rethink your probable decision to dismiss him as Eli Roth with a French accent."
Posted Aug 20, 2008
 
Mirrors (2008)16%
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4/5
 
"Launches a relentless satirical attack on Hollywood, good taste and political correctness -- and emerges the winner in the resulting best-two-falls-out-of-three grudge match."
Posted Aug 20, 2008
 
Tropic Thunder (2008)84%
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4.5/5
 
"A wonderfully entertaining, occasionally very funny, always involving thriller that never insults your intelligence."
Posted Aug 13, 2008
 
Tell No One (2008)92%
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4.5/5
 
"This is that rare film version of a book that captures the essence of the work, while at the same time bringing its own point of view to the table."
Posted Aug 13, 2008
 
Brideshead Revisited (2008)68%
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3.5/5
 
"A stoner comedy, an action comedy, an action thriller, a typical Apatovian man-boy opus or a male-bonding romance. The problem is it's not very good at any of these things."
Posted Aug 13, 2008
 
Pineapple Express (2008)68%
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4/5
 
"It's certainly worth a look -- perhaps as much for its silliness as its cinematic quality, though the latter shouldn't be sold short."
Posted Aug 6, 2008
 
Lucrezia Borgia (1935)n/a
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4/5
 
"A fascinating outburst of strangeness of almost Fellini-esque proportions."
Posted Aug 6, 2008
 
Having a Wild Weekend (1965)n/a
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5/5
 
"The film puts forth the idea that the best we ever get are reflections and fragmented images of others, as if we see things entirely through prisms or distorting glass."
Posted Aug 6, 2008
 
When Did You Last See Your Father? (2008)73%
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3.5/5
 
"A sometimes intriguing, sometimes maddening essay in the realm of informational overkill."
Posted Aug 6, 2008
 
The Rape of Europa ()100%
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2.5/5
 
"The toothlessness of this purported political satire is such that it would have a hard time chewing its way through a bowl of Cream of Wheat."
Posted Aug 6, 2008
 
Swing Vote (2008)39%
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2/5
 
"What's astonishing about such an assemblage of interesting material is that it's all pretty dull. There's something almost admirable about making a two-headed dog dull."
Posted Jul 30, 2008
 
The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)33%
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.5/5
 
"Heightened suspicions of the decline of civilization became inescapable this past Friday when Adam McKay's Step Brothers oozed its way into theaters."
Posted Jul 30, 2008
 
Step Brothers (2008)53%
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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)33%
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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)54%
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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)94%
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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)61%
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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)88%
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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)79%
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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)73%
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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)97%
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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)55%
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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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