Hank Sartin

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Chicago Reader, Time Out
For 55 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 11.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Hank Sartin's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 54
Highest review score: 100 Hero
Lowest review score: 0 National Lampoon's Gold Diggers
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 55
  2. Mixed: 27 out of 55
  3. Negative: 10 out of 55
55 movie reviews
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    • 32 Metascore
    • 40 Hank Sartin
    Chernobyl Diaries
    If, as some critics have claimed, "The Cabin in the Woods" made the horror genre obsolete, someone forgot to tell screenwriter Oren Peli.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Hank Sartin
    Dust to Glory
    The action is exciting, but the rapid-fire narration jumps around too quickly, making it difficult to keep straight the personalities meant to hold the film together.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 20 Hank Sartin
    All About Steve
    A talented director might have made Bullock seem like a comic genius, but Phil Traill has no control over tone, leaving the audience unsure whether to laugh or cry.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Hank Sartin
    The Edukators
    Though the story drags for the first hour, this becomes a solid character study once the principals arrive at their hiding place.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Hank Sartin
    Mean Creek
    Everyone in the cast conveys that messy mix of teen self-consciousness and bravado, but Josh Peck is particularly nuanced as the bully.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Hank Sartin
    Poster Boy
    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.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 40 Hank Sartin
    Testosterone
    All the male pulchritude can't make up for a muddled script.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Hank Sartin
    La sierra
    The intense focus on this trio makes for good portraiture, but it left me hungry for more about the social context that shaped them.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 60 Hank Sartin
    World Traveler
    Crudup takes a riskier path: his architect isn't very nice and is possibly irredeemable. His performance is subtle, complicated, and fresh, and it's a shame the movie doesn't live up to it.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Hank Sartin
    Friday After Next
    "Friday" had moments of stoned charm and telling neighborhood detail; this second sequel never gets beyond the angry, cruel, and misogynist.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 60 Hank Sartin
    The Transporter
    Entertaining but forgettable action flick.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 70 Hank Sartin
    The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course
    Kids used to watching him on TV might find it all perfectly normal, but for adults it's almost an acid trip.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Hank Sartin
    The Cherry Orchard
    We're never allowed to feel much of anything for these characters, and as a result their agonizing over their lost past and uncertain future seems like whining.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Hank Sartin
    Sex and Lucia
    This film by Julio Medem has dreamlike visuals, lush sensuality, a gorgeous cast, and a plot built on elaborate, self-conscious coincidences.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Hank Sartin
    Pooh's Heffalump Movie
    Director Frank Nissen strikes a nice balance between slapstick and sentiment, and I'll admit to getting a bit choked up at the appropriate moments.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Hank Sartin
    Hero
    The result is both thrilling and thoughtful.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Hank Sartin
    Only the Strong Survive
    Fascinating group portrait of soul and R & B legends who are still touring 40 years after their original fame, enduring even after they've been relegated to the nostalgia circuit.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Hank Sartin
    Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling
    The women, many in their 70s and 80s, are still tough and proud--and nursing grudges that go back decades, something Leitman plays up by crosscutting between rivals' accounts.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Hank Sartin
    Cellular
    Cohen and a crew of script doctors have thrown in some of the oldest cliches in the book.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Hank Sartin
    Birth
    In this eerily tranquil psychological thriller, Nicole Kidman's placid countenance is like a Rorschach: you'll project onto it what you want to see.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Hank Sartin
    Wimbledon
    Never quite settles on a tone, veering from wacky comedy to earnest sports drama to romantic farce. The results are predictably muddled, if mostly harmless.
    • 6 Metascore
    • 0 Hank Sartin
    National Lampoon's Gold Diggers
    Nothing's quite so painful as failed comedy, and this atrocity is equivalent to a compound fracture.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Hank Sartin
    Hamlet
    This Hamlet elevates plot to a height that retains the play's atmosphere but squanders its thematic richness in a welter of "Mommy, how could you?" melodrama.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Hank Sartin
    Two Brothers
    The result is that virtual oxymoron, an intelligent family film.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Hank Sartin
    Lustre
    Jones's script leans too heavily on the familiar device of blurring illusion and reality, but his view of the urban landscape is beautiful and distinctive.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Hank Sartin
    Roger Dodger
    Kidd has a great ear for dialogue, and he throws in a few unexpected twists. But the real fun is watching an established pro and a newcomer run with the script.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Hank Sartin
    Signs
    Borrowing heavily from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," Shyamalan tries to lighten his trademark gloomy tone -- and almost kills the suspense he's working so hard to achieve.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Hank Sartin
    The Bourne Identity
    The full-throttle approach of director Doug Liman (Swingers, Go) is impressive.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Hank Sartin
    S1m0ne
    The film never quite achieves the sharp edge satire demands, largely because director Andrew Niccol, who was so good at managing tone in "Gattaca," can't decide whether to go with nasty or hilariously farcical.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 40 Hank Sartin
    Taxi
    I expected this to be much funnier: Latifah coasts on her charm and Fallon seems incapable of playing an actual character.
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