Kirk Honeycutt

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For 1,003 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Kirk Honeycutt's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 The Social Network
Lowest review score: 0 Your Highness
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 476 out of 1003
  2. Mixed: 434 out of 1003
  3. Negative: 93 out of 1003
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 30 Kirk Honeycutt
    The Banishment
    The Banishment (Izgnanie) starts off like a thriller with a car roaring into the city and a clandestine surgery by a man to remove a bullet in his brother's arm. Then, ever so slowly, the movie falls into the clutches of long, solemn stares into space, meaningful drags on cigarettes, cryptic dialogue revealing little and a tiny drama that feels old, tired and empty of real purpose.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 20 Kirk Honeycutt
    Twixt
    One can reflect on what the young Coppola, with his masterful camera work and vivid imagination, might have done with such an opportunity. Unfortunately, the present-day one produces only tepid and tired imagery that would not earn high marks in any film school.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    Violet & Daisy
    It’s a film that doesn’t always work but when it does you almost hear an audible click. Violet & Daisy has its share of these ah-ha moments.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    Porfirio
    The film falls into an interesting intersection between documentary and feature, between reality and fiction.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Kirk Honeycutt
    The Green Wave
    An arresting visual style cannot make up for lack of new information or viewpoints about the Green Revolution in 2009 Iran.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 60 Kirk Honeycutt
    360
    La Ronde 2011-style is simply a game and its makers expert gamesmen. The film is never less than intriguing. But the artifice shows all too clearly.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Kirk Honeycutt
    Paul Williams Still Alive
    The film has a winning combination for all sorts of platforms as the story is highly intriguing and the music speaks, or rather sings, for itself.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 60 Kirk Honeycutt
    Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding
    The saving grace to the utter predictability in Christina Mengert and Joseph Muszynski's screenplay is reasonably personable characters and spirited acting by director Bruce Beresford's cast.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Kirk Honeycutt
    Mahler on the Couch
    The film's great gift, though, is Romaner. Unbelievably, this is the first film for the Bavarian stage actress. She fully inhabits the role of this complex personality whose passion for love and art collides with her role of wife and mother.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Kirk Honeycutt
    Sound of My Voice
    Now Batmanglij and Marling deliver another terrific and engrossing venture into speculative fiction, Sound of My Voice.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
    You could point a camera just about anywhere at Comic-Con and record something weird, amazing, funny, stupid or all of the above.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Kirk Honeycutt
    Jess and Moss
    The filmmaker made the film on his family's tobacco farm so perhaps his own memories may filter through those of his fictional characters. Or maybe they're not fictional at all. Jess + Moss is, to put it mildly, open to interpretation.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Kirk Honeycutt
    Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
    Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky's final film about the West Memphis Three demonstrates how the first two docs played a role in galvanizing national support to free the wrongly convicted men.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    We Need to Talk About Kevin
    This is, in a way, a real horror film about everyday things and a disconnected family.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    The Big Fix
    A gloomy but perhaps realistic depiction of the forces of corruption and deceit that produce environmental catastrophes.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Kirk Honeycutt
    Rampart
    Harrelson goes full bore from the opening scene and there are no scenes he is not in. But the effect is wearying rather than exhilarating.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Kirk Honeycutt
    Dog Sweat
    The cast is fine, but the roles are superficial and too concentrated on the film's theme.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Kirk Honeycutt
    A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas
    A mildly diverting naughty comedy, lacking the pure comic nastiness of "Bad Santa" or the sheer audacity of "Up in Smoke."
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    RA. One
    You don't have to be an enthusiast of Bollywood to embrace RA.ONE, but it sure would help.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Kirk Honeycutt
    The Mighty Macs
    The movie does say a lot about female athletes and the changing role of women in American society, but in aggressively pursuing the formula, writer-director-producer Tim Chambers is prone to exaggeration and a moralizing tone.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Kirk Honeycutt
    Father of Invention
    Comedies don't get much more unfunny than Father of Invention, a lame and somewhat preachy comic take on a father trying to get back into his daughter's good graces.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 50 Kirk Honeycutt
    The Skin I Live In
    Like many lab experiments, this melodramatic hybrid makes for an unstable fusion. Only someone as talented as Almodóvar could have mixed such elements without blowing up an entire movie.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 40 Kirk Honeycutt
    Fireflies in the Garden
    Dennis Lee comes up empty. Kids, parents, siblings, an aunt and an estranged wife all bicker and yell, but the noise cancels itself out. The movie is one long argument, tiresome and repetitive, that produces more heat than light.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 80 Kirk Honeycutt
    Anonymous
    The film grabs at historical facts, mangles them into a plot worthy of a John le Carré spy novel and takes the viewer on a breathtaking ride through ye olde London.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 60 Kirk Honeycutt
    What's Your Number?
    Mild vulgarity and discreet nudity garner the sought-after R rating, but this effort feels forced. The real "bad" here is the sheer formulaic nature of everything. There are no surprises but for once you don't much mind.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Kirk Honeycutt
    Finding Joe
    Everyone's comments are thoughtful and articulate but everyone stays "on message" so steadfastly that no dialogue ever ensues. It's 20 people giving the same lecture.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 40 Kirk Honeycutt
    Bunraku
    Moshe, who wrote and directed, creates a boldly Expressionistic alternate reality to background this heavy-on-the-action story, but neglects narrative and character beyond the most basic strokes.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Kirk Honeycutt
    Thunder Soul
    A greater argument for music education in our secondary school curriculum can't be made than Mark Landsman's doc about a Texas high school funk band that tore up the music scene from 1968 to 1977.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    Puncture
    The film is chock-a-block with extraordinary performances and no one will fault the filmmaking either. This is a well-made movie, make no mistake. It just suffers from a dysfunctional hero.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    Machine Gun Preacher
    One can't escape the nagging feeling that the film doesn't dig deeply enough into its real-life hero. The film doesn't explore all those "whys" and "whats."
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