Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly
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For 49 reviews, this critic has graded:
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57% higher than the average critic
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43% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 10.7 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Ken Tucker's Scores
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| Average review score: | 70 |
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100
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30
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 34 out of 49
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Mixed: 12 out of 49
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Negative: 3 out of 49
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movie reviews
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Ken Tucker 100
The visually stunning Sin City has grit to spare and a thrilling undercurrent of morality. -
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Ken Tucker 100
Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds is huge and scary, moving and funny--another capper to a career that seems like an unending succession of captivations. -
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Ken Tucker 90
When this long movie is over, all you want to do is clap and weep and watch it all over again immediately. -
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Ken Tucker 90
The result is an admirably bumpy ride of a biopic, a rare one that leaves you feeling not safe but bracingly unsettled. -
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Ken Tucker 90
In the best moments of Howl's Moving Castle and in his extraordinary body of work, Miyazaki teaches his viewers more valuable lessons. -
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Ken Tucker 90
Murray's performance is at once enormously generous and fiercely, concisely witty. -
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Ken Tucker 90
Ralph Fiennes gives one of the year's subtlest, yet most exciting, screen performances. -
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Ken Tucker 90
A film that transcends its obvious timeliness to say some elemental things about personal loyalty and institutional betrayal. -
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Ken Tucker 90
The remarkable thing director Ang Lee has done is to have made a film that remains firmly in the Western genre while never retreating from its portrayal of a tragic love story. -
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Ken Tucker 80
Closer is marred by some drippy music courtesy of Damien Rice and a small-surprise ending that feels like gimmicky irony. But the film's core idea is compelling. -
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Ken Tucker 80
Operates as stealth art: stately, moving, beautifully acted, and urgently subversive to our own status quo. -
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Ken Tucker 80
Reeves has confidently entered his self-parodic period. You’ll enjoy his wry post-Matrix murmurs and squinty stares. -
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Ken Tucker 80
The most blessedly traditional sort of documentary. It follows the twisty, complicated rise and fall of Enron in steady, chronological order, from the mid-eighties to the present. -
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Ken Tucker 80
One of the wonderful things about Thumbsucker is that, unlike so many movies in which a character changes in order to propel the plot forward, this one stops to follow up on the consequences of those changes. -
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Ken Tucker 80
I'd like to hear from some women about the sole scene I didn't buy--Bello getting angry, then super-turned-on when she learns about her calm Tom's tough-guy origins--but otherwise, A History of Violence is a remarkably convincing examination of heroism, hero worship, and the seductive allure of villainy. -
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Ken Tucker 80
A sci-fi saga that manages to be at once stirring and screwball, gut-busting and gut-wrenching, and more fun than you had at any bigger-budget movie this past summer. -
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Ken Tucker 80
When superb craftsmanship, discipline, and risk-taking (toning down Diaz and MacLaine; treating Collette as a desirous leading lady) are applied to accessible, even frivolous material, the results can be deeply pleasurable. In Her Shoes isn’t a masterpiece, but it’s the best Saturday-night movie millions of people are going to go to. -
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Ken Tucker 80
It's a film you won't stop thinking about, arguing over, debating, after the lights come up.- Posted Feb 15, 2011
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Ken Tucker 70
May be at once too gimmicky and too sincere. But it still exerts an uncanny power: Like the best of Almodóvar’s work, it throws you a first-love sucker punch that will stagger your heart, mind, and soul. -
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Ken Tucker 70
As one of the few movies around not pushing state-of-the-art animation or Jude Law, Alexander is a damn good date movie. -
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Ken Tucker 70
Jackson's wonderfully nuanced, witty performance, and a few unexpected plot turns, give Coach Carter a subtext that helps complicate such knee-jerk oversimplifications, redeeming the role with energetic humor and a loose-limbed grace. -
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Ken Tucker 70
It's simply an astringent action flick that uses the wounded sensitivity of Ethan Hawke and Fishburne's witty hauteur to give the shoot-'em-up scenes some juice. -
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Ken Tucker 70
Fortunately, director Ken Kwapis, who's done a lot of briskly unsentimental TV work with young people--"Malcolm in the Middle," most notably--knows how to avoid mawk, keeps the squawk to a minimum, and gets wonderful performances out of at least two of the sisterhood, "Gilmore Girls'" Alexis Bledel as the modest Lena, and America Ferrera ("Real Women Have Curves") as the stubborn Carmen. -
