Rick Kisonak, Film Threat
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For 137 reviews, this critic has graded:
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40% higher than the average critic
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60% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.6 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Rick Kisonak's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 59 out of 137
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Mixed: 67 out of 137
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Negative: 11 out of 137
137
movie reviews
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Rick Kisonak 60
This is a gentle, understated character-driven piece that has more in common with European romantic dramas than those made in this country as a rule. -
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Rick Kisonak 60
Until this past Friday, the worst werewolf film ever made was, hairy hands down, Mike Nichols' "Wolf." Cursed now assumes that dubious distinction and someone is going to have to try very hard to wrestle it away. -
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Rick Kisonak 60
Has its rollicking moments and snappy lines but even Pacino can't elevate them into more than a fleetingly juicy treat. This is a movie that desperately wishes it had been written by David Mamet. -
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Rick Kisonak 60
A touching, stirring story even if it has been given the Hollywood treatment. -
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Rick Kisonak 60
Full speed ahead fun, a rollicking caper romp that hearkens back to a quainter, pre-Ken Lay age when bigtime fraud could actually entail writing books as opposed to merely cooking them. -
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Rick Kisonak 60
On its own terms, the picture is at least as contrived as it is charming and its characters in many cases bear less resemblance to flesh and blood human beings than those in a Farrelly brothers farce. -
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Rick Kisonak 60
The chief triumph here, it seems to me though, is one of style over substance. The disaffected kids who shuffle through its universe have nothing to say, nothing to tell us. I’m not sure the movie has a whole lot more. -
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Rick Kisonak 60
Ultimately, The Strangers does succeed in the sense that it offers a riveting, vastly credible enactment of everyone's worst nightmare. -
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Rick Kisonak 60
The movie doesn’t even try to break new ground–it’s shot entirely on location in familiar Ferrell-McKay territory. -
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Rick Kisonak 60
Rowan Atkinson's spy spoof is wildly uneven and yet, at times, nothing less than wildly entertaining. -
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Rick Kisonak 60
Perkiness Alert! Much of the banter and many of the gags are amusing but Witherspoon cranks the perkiness to off-the-dial levels here and anyone with low tolerance for superpeppy movie do-gooders should consult a physician before viewing. -
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Rick Kisonak 60
Radio is a film many people may be tempted to laugh off as button pushing feel-good fluff. Before doing so, they might want to ask themselves just what it is they find so funny about a little peace, love and understanding. -
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Rick Kisonak 60
It may not feature the funniest performances Stiller, Walken and Black have ever given but, these three guys giving performances just this funny is enough to make Envy a movie you'll end up kicking yourself for missing. -
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Rick Kisonak 60
While the massacre is a wall-shaking and effective bit of high decibel drama, some of the movie's best moments come during the Texans' long brave wait for almost certain death. -
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Rick Kisonak 60
At the end of the day, though, this is Charlie Kaufman's movie and I'm not sure he proves quite the visionary puppetmaster many in the media are making him out to be. -
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Rick Kisonak 60
Beyond any contention is Morgan Spurlock's gift for metabolizing common knowledge into uncommonly entertaining cinema. -
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Rick Kisonak 60
The film also benefits from unusually solid writing and a masterfully understated turn by Billy Bob Thornton. -
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Rick Kisonak 60
A good laugh is almost never a bad thing and almost every frame of Old School is grade A goofball fun. -
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Rick Kisonak 60
A silly comic book movie with provocative psychological overtones. Or a provocative character study with silly comic book overtones. Take your pick. Either way, it's hardly the cinematic milestone it's widely hailed as being. -
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Rick Kisonak 60
While the picture doesn't rise to the level of instant holiday classic, younger members of the audience are guaranteed to get a Christmas kick out of it. If disappointment awaits, it awaits Ferrell's older fans. -
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Rick Kisonak 60
May just be the most quintessential Steven Spielberg movie Steven Spielberg never made. -
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Rick Kisonak 60
The heart of Ray, of course, is the music and, whatever other shortcomings the film may have, it does not fall short as a showcase for the artist's greatest hits. -
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Rick Kisonak 60
Anyone who loves rock music will appreciate the script's insights into the form and its history. -
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Rick Kisonak 60
This is a film which resonates on a surprising number of levels. But the level on which it undoubtedly works best is the victim-goes-postal-and-takes-the-law-into-his-own-hands level. -
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Rick Kisonak 50
If characters with more than one dimension, a plausible story and some sort of viewpoint are moviegoing musts, you may leave 2012 feeling a tad shortchanged. -
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Rick Kisonak 50
This is one of those "Crash"-style pictures with interwoven narrative strands. The problem here is that most of the strands wind up little more than loose ends. -
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Rick Kisonak 50
Gratuitously brutal, chronically preposterous, abysmally unoriginal, pretty much pointless and virtually 100% free of credible characters, Derailed represents career lows for its stars while marking an unpromising English language debut for its director. -
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Rick Kisonak 50
If you're looking for Rock's trademark smart-ass wit, you'll want to look somewhere else. Likewise when it comes to a movie with something fresh to say about the balancing act that is wedded bliss. -
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Rick Kisonak 50
Elegy's last act is a mournful smorgasbord of bathos in which major and supporting characters alike drop like flies. The body count is practically Shakespearean. The same, regrettably, can't be said for Coixet's touch when it comes to tragedy. -
