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 4.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Kirk Honeycutt's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Apocalypse Now Redux
Lowest review score: 0 Your Highness
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 477 out of 1003
  2. Mixed: 433 out of 1003
  3. Negative: 93 out of 1003
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    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Kirk Honeycutt
    Blindness
    Blindness is provocative cinema. But it also is predictable cinema: It startles but does not surprise.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    Silent Light
    Reygadas has hitched his austere and protracted style to an allegorical tale of subtle strength and depth.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 30 Kirk Honeycutt
    Twisted
    Combining the ludicrous with the lurid, Twisted is twisted all right.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Kirk Honeycutt
    Radio
    The cast, which includes Alfre Woodard and Debra Winger, manages to give thoughtful performances that salvage the film's integrity.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Kirk Honeycutt
    Cellular
    Macy once again brightens an otherwise mundane character.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Kirk Honeycutt
    Loggerheads
    A drama that is more contemplative at times than dramatic yet one containing several powerful moments.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 90 Kirk Honeycutt
    Munich
    A mesmerizing, richly nuanced inquiry into Israel's revenge of the Munich massacre of its athletes.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Kirk Honeycutt
    The Matrix Reloaded
    Unlike "The Matrix," all fights and stunts -- including a 14-minute freeway chase -- have a disturbing tendency to repeat intricately choreographed action. Thus, computer technology and overkill supplant the ingenuity of the original film's action.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 20 Kirk Honeycutt
    Going the Distance
    Going the Distance is, in a way, a remarkable film: It's hard to imagine any romantic comedy going wrong in so many different ways.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 20 Kirk Honeycutt
    Sex and Death 101
    A lame comic idea poorly executed dooms Sex and Death 101 to failure.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    The Holiday
    It's formulaic but with a big heart.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Kirk Honeycutt
    Chronicles
    A crackling good suspense thriller.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Kirk Honeycutt
    11:14
    Has a demented sense of humor, and the cleverness of its taut narrative structure and misanthropic characterizations constantly surprises a viewer. The movie does what you wish more first-time features would do: tell a story economically with first-rate actors and no hint of self-consciousness.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Kirk Honeycutt
    P.S. I Love You
    The film, written (with Steven Rogers) and directed by Richard LaGravenese, is long and drags in places. But the chief problem is that "P.S." feels like a gimmick.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Kirk Honeycutt
    Donkey Punch
    A formulaic yet clever chiller that offers generous doses of sex and violence aboard a luxury yacht.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Kirk Honeycutt
    The Alamo
    A respectable and at times an exciting film that should appeal to males of all ages, history buffs and -- yes, it's inevitable -- patriots.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Kirk Honeycutt
    In My Country
    The charisma and hard work by his two leads allows Boorman to succeed beyond all expectations.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Kirk Honeycutt
    Duma
    A newcomer to film, Michaletos grew up on a farm with cheetahs, so he can act natural around the animals while making this Huck Finn-like character more than credible.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Kirk Honeycutt
    Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
    The movie rolls merrily along with slapstick action and whimsical characters.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Kirk Honeycutt
    The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
    Anne Hathaway's charms barely rescue this exercise in lame comedy and romance.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Kirk Honeycutt
    The A-Team
    The film seems nearly writer-free. Absolutely no time gets wasted on story, character development or logic.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 60 Kirk Honeycutt
    The Walker
    While it can be labeled a thriller or a murder mystery, the film is talky, unhurried, contains little action and shows more interest in how characters think and behave than in its plot.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    Collateral
    The movie never really gets below that surface. It sticks to the mean streets of Los Angeles without much introspection or analysis. But those surfaces are slick and beguiling.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 30 Kirk Honeycutt
    Exorcist: The Beginning
    The scariest thing about this film is how desperate the makers are to earn a scream.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    Food, Inc.
    No question, watching this film is a tough go. Horror films cause less seat-squirming.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Kirk Honeycutt
    Extract
    Not a single person in this ensemble comedy doesn't suffer from colossal stupidity.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    Wah-Wah
    Veteran actor Richard E. Grant makes his writing and directing debut with Wah-Wah, a startling portrait of his own startling and unusual childhood, growing up in Swaziland in the waning days of the British Empire in Africa.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 90 Kirk Honeycutt
    Transformers
    Transformers is a wet dream for fanboys, with vehicles that whiz and whir into alien robots, spectacular sci-fi stunt chases, glistening military hardware, overheated computer software and brainy, hot girls who love Popular Mechanics.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Kirk Honeycutt
    My Best Friend
    Not a bad film and veteran star Daniel Auteuil makes any film he inhabits an interesting place to visit. Perversely, its tissue-thin substance may even make the comedy more commercial in North America than such films of his as "Monsieur Hire" and "Ridicule."
    • 32 Metascore
    • 10 Kirk Honeycutt
    Games People Play: New York
    The film doesn't know what it wants to be -- reality programming pushed to the max or a satire of reality TV? -- but it winds up as an exercise in the rankest sort of cynicism.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 60 Kirk Honeycutt
    Alexander
    Since the movie lacks a vision of what Alexander was really about as a man and a figure in history, it falls back all too frequently on movie spectacle.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Kirk Honeycutt
    Solitary Man
    This attractive cast may help get an audience, but they will surely puzzle over such a downward-spiraling story that lacks inner logic.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Kirk Honeycutt
    Shine a Light
    The film does not stand up to the current crop of music/concert films like "U2 3D," which brilliantly uses 3-D to show the Irish band in concert so as to encapsulate its relationship to its fans, each other and their own music, and "CSNY: Deja Vu," which hones in on the political connection Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young have to their music.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Kirk Honeycutt
    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    David Yates, in his go at the helm, throws the emphasis on the gathering storm clouds even as Harry and his fellow wizardry students make further discoveries involving the opposite sex.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Kirk Honeycutt
    P.S.
    A meticulously rendered romantic drama, very well acted and featuring solid production values and location work that makes New York feel like one of the movie's characters. The only problem is the story is rather flat.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Kirk Honeycutt
    The Pursuit of Happyness
    This is a slick studio production with a huge movie star and top professionals occupying every production role so that the polish of this well-made film makes even homelessness look neat and tidy.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 60 Kirk Honeycutt
    The Reaping
    One either likes this sort of thing or not. Even fans might not buy the ending in which more people get wiped out than in Hurricane Katrina.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Kirk Honeycutt
    Transsiberian
    A vigorous, fast-paced tale that entwines plot with character and psychology set against an incredibly exotic backdrop.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 60 Kirk Honeycutt
    Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience
    Certainly their musicianship and onstage professionalism are smooth, though maybe a bit too smooth. There is little spontaneity in anything they do.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    The Man
    Who knew Samuel L. Jackson and Eugene Levy would make such a dynamic comic duo?
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Kirk Honeycutt
    Meet the Robinsons
    The most un-Disneylike cartoon yet from Disney animation. The thing is a hellzapoppin' of eccentric characters, zany situations and wacky gizmos, but little effort has gone into making any of this connect with an audience.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Kirk Honeycutt
    Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    The large cast, costumed and made up as filthy scalawags and sinister buccaneers, gives tremendous energy to every scene.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Kirk Honeycutt
    Full Battle Rattle
    It's all a bit bizarre. One soldier tellingly calls it "one big reality TV show," and the movie never makes clear whether such training does any good.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    CSNY/Déjà Vu
    The average age of the band's members is 62. They don't even bother to disguise that fact. These men look like your grandfather, right up until the downbeat. Then the magnificence of their playing sweeps away all concepts of age. Rock on.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    Frost/Nixon
    Less a political movie than a boxing film without the gloves.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Kirk Honeycutt
    Fanboys
    Given how insultingly fanboys are portrayed, even the fan base could be put off.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Kirk Honeycutt
    The Baxter
    A wheel-spinner. The more the film stresses and strains to be funny, the unfunnier it gets.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    Come Early Morning
    A simple story yet told with such conviction, delicacy and instinct for truth that it carries keen emotional power. This is the first film from actress Joey Lauren Adams, so one can only hope she has more stories inside her for she has genuine storytelling talent.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 40 Kirk Honeycutt
    Leaves of Grass
    It is so outrageous with its ethnic caricatures, hokey plot and twin-brother mix-ups that you know the whole thing is a lark.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Kirk Honeycutt
    Shrek the Third
    Much of the bite and a good deal of the wit of the first two films are missing here. The rude send-up of beloved fairy tale conventions remains -- somewhat -- but these playful jabs no longer come as pleasing surprises. You expect them. And you expect better.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    The Island
    Starts off an aggressively derivative sci-fi thriller, then morphs into an above-average chase melodrama.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Kirk Honeycutt
    The Road to Guantanamo
    A tough, compelling, must-see movie.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Kirk Honeycutt
    Halloween (2007)
    As usual, Zombie has added an element of camp fun to the proceedings with his clever casting of B-movie icons in small roles, including Dee Wallace, Brad Dourif, Danny Trejo and Sid Haig.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Kirk Honeycutt
    School of Rock
    The film hits another comic mother lode in the byplay between Black and Cusack.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Kirk Honeycutt
    Monster
    Challenges audiences with an unrelieved portrait of self-destruction and horrific violence. American movies don't get much grimmer than this.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Kirk Honeycutt
    Mesrine: Killer Instinct
    Part One, at least, is a French "Bonnie and Clyde."
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    Paradise Now
    While nothing truly new or shocking emerges, the film does bring clarity and compassion to its depiction of an act that baffles, angers and sickens people the world over.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Kirk Honeycutt
    Hellboy
    Standard-issue superhero movie -- except that writer-director Guillermo del Toro, taking his cue from "Hellboy" comic book creator Mike Mignola, brings a wicked sense of humor to this particular monster mash.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Kirk Honeycutt
    Where the Wild Things Are
    Where the film falters is Jonze and novelist Dave Eggers' adaptation, which fails to invest this world with strong emotions.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 50 Kirk Honeycutt
    Please Give
    Think of Please Give as a finely tuned short story with every glance and gesture full of suggestive meaning. Drama is not high on the agenda here. There is a bit of comedy and, briefly, sexual mischief even though it doesn't look like much fun.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Kirk Honeycutt
    NASCAR: The IMAX Experience
    The movie makes an excellent primer about the world of stock car racing for fans and nonfans alike. In 48 fast minutes, the Simon Wincer-directed film gives you a genuine sense of this particular sport, its rigorous demands and the fan base that supports it with such wildly enthusiastic devotion.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Kirk Honeycutt
    After the Sunset
    The heist itself is almost dull, and the characters aren't half as colorful or interesting as they need to be.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 40 Kirk Honeycutt
    Tropical Malady
    Certainly for most audiences the viewing experience will prove not only tedious but bewildering.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    The Great Debaters
    An earnest drama about the search for self-esteem and sense of responsibility among young black people that successfully relies on its fine actors.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Kirk Honeycutt
    Miracle at St. Anna
    Odd too, for a film that wants to correct impression anyone had as to the abilities of black U.S. soldier in combat, are the ethnic cliches about Italians and Germans, to say nothing of rednecks.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Kirk Honeycutt
    Kenny Chesney: Summer in 3D
    The guy really goes all out in these performances.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Kirk Honeycutt
    Lightning in a Bottle
    Simply lets the sinfully gorgeous music and emotions sweep over an audience.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 80 Kirk Honeycutt
    Beyond the Sea
    Kevin Spacey, both as star and director, has created a hugely entertaining, highly empathetic portrait of a man for whom music was literally the thing that kept him alive.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Kirk Honeycutt
    Into the Blue
    When under water, the action-adventure Into the Blue has genuine thrills. Above water or on dry land, this is one dead fish.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    Sunshine Cleaning
    Amy Adams and Emily Blunt are two highly attractive, naturally funny actresses on the cusp of stardom so their pairing here as two lost souls is genius.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Kirk Honeycutt
    Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
    In outline, the story is pretty funny, and the film's outlandish takes on sports-movie conventions deliver some laughs. But Thurber chooses the low road to those laughs so often that he undermines his own satirical design. His actors certainly deliver amusing, spirited performances, but again, they get done in by relentless adolescent humor.
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