Ken Tucker

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Entertainment Weekly, New York Magazine (Vulture), The Hollywood Reporter
For 64 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 57% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Ken Tucker's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 War of the Worlds
Lowest review score: 25 Down Periscope
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 41 out of 64
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 64
  3. Negative: 7 out of 64
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Ken Tucker
    War of the Worlds
    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.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Ken Tucker
    Sin City
    The visually stunning Sin City has grit to spare and a thrilling undercurrent of morality.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Ken Tucker
    The Gunfighter
    A ruthlessly heartbreaking tale of a famous gunslinger (Gregory Peck in a black mustache and a little black hat) grown weary of facing down an increasingly young bunch of challengers to his quick-draw supremacy.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 91 Ken Tucker
    This Is Elvis
    Its ambition is so great that the production’s occasional melodramatic touches can not only be forgiven, but viewed as having been executed in the spirit of the man himself.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Ken Tucker
    The Constant Gardener
    Ralph Fiennes gives one of the year's subtlest, yet most exciting, screen performances.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Ken Tucker
    The Aviator
    The result is an admirably bumpy ride of a biopic, a rare one that leaves you feeling not safe but bracingly unsettled.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Ken Tucker
    Rize
    Stunning, explosively moving.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Ken Tucker
    Syriana
    A film that transcends its obvious timeliness to say some elemental things about personal loyalty and institutional betrayal.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Ken Tucker
    Howl's Moving Castle
    In the best moments of Howl's Moving Castle and in his extraordinary body of work, Miyazaki teaches his viewers more valuable lessons.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Ken Tucker
    A Very Long Engagement
    When this long movie is over, all you want to do is clap and weep and watch it all over again immediately.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Ken Tucker
    Broken Flowers
    Murray's performance is at once enormously generous and fiercely, concisely witty.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Ken Tucker
    Brokeback Mountain
    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.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 83 Ken Tucker
    Muppet Treasure Island
    Tim Curry makes a fine, flashy Long John Silver, and charming newcomer Kevin Bishop is a lively, toothy young Jim Hawkins, but it’s Gonzo and Rizzo the Rat who make Muppet Treasure Island, the Muppets musical adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson, novel a hoot.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 83 Ken Tucker
    The Frighteners
    The Frighteners is also that rare horror film that actually gets better as it proceeds; this scare machine has a heart and a brain.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Ken Tucker
    The Aristocrats
    Gloriously filthy, ramshackle, endearing documentary.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Ken Tucker
    Thumbsucker
    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.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Ken Tucker
    Closer
    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.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Ken Tucker
    Crash
    It's a film you won't stop thinking about, arguing over, debating, after the lights come up.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Ken Tucker
    Paths of Glory
    Paths of Glory is all about that greatest of all movie subjects: power.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 80 Ken Tucker
    Constantine
    Reeves has confidently entered his self-parodic period. You’ll enjoy his wry post-Matrix murmurs and squinty stares.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Ken Tucker
    In Her Shoes
    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.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Ken Tucker
    Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
    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.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Ken Tucker
    Serenity
    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.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Ken Tucker
    The Sea Inside
    Operates as stealth art: stately, moving, beautifully acted, and urgently subversive to our own status quo.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Ken Tucker
    Kung Fu Hustle
    Half-amazing, half-ridiculous, thoroughly exhilarating.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Ken Tucker
    Inside Deep Throat
    Delightful, insightful documentary.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 80 Ken Tucker
    Mr. & Mrs. Smith
    A cool summer thriller whose laughs don't slow down the suspense.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Ken Tucker
    A History of Violence
    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.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Ken Tucker
    DragonHeart
    Instead of being drawn into Dragonheart‘s tale of swords and sorcery, I frequently sat there thinking things like Gee, I wonder how much time it took Connery to record his lines. It’s too bad, because in other respects Dragonheart is a corker.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Ken Tucker
    The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
    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.
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