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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    • 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."
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    50/50
    Reiser has written his characters with an indelible sweetness and vulnerability, which allows the cast to deliver performances with some depth.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Kirk Honeycutt
    Position Among the Stars
    An eloquently shot and closely observed documentary about a poor family in modern-day Indonesia.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 60 Kirk Honeycutt
    Berlin 36
    The film, well made in every way, smartly focuses on an unlikely friendship between Gretel and the athlete who ultimately replaced her -- a high jumper who was later revealed to be a man!
    • 87 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    Moneyball
    The movie does achieve something nearly impossible: Someone who doesn't even like the sport may care about Billy Beane and the 2002 Oakland Athletics.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Kirk Honeycutt
    The Debt
    As a thriller, The Debt performs many if not all the right moves. Where the John Madden-directed film gets into trouble is in wanting to deal with the Holocaust without being entirely a period film.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 30 Kirk Honeycutt
    Saving Private Perez
    This Mexican action flick from director-writer Beto Gómez has all the makings of a great comedy only no one told the filmmakers.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 90 Kirk Honeycutt
    Warrior
    It's a long movie that feels short: It grabs you in early scenes, intense though low-key before all hell breaks loose, then keeps you riveted to its mostly male characters.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    Chasing Madoff
    In a sense, this is not a financial thriller so much as a financial mystery. Which gets a bit lost in the movie's stylized presentation.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Kirk Honeycutt
    Higher Ground
    The film is a deft, graceful and often poignant story of a woman's quest to find her own identity and a spiritual sanctuary that will give her life hope and meaning.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    One Day
    Danish director Lone Scherfig skillfully adapts David Nicholls' best-selling romantic novel to the screen.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Kirk Honeycutt
    Conan the Barbarian
    There is no purpose to the film other than random blood splattering amid scenes of bondage, primitive savagery and S&M eroticism. The film is numbing and dumb with its hero indistinguishable from its villains.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Kirk Honeycutt
    Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
    The result is a scary movie that is genuinely scary in parts, although an adult can't help noticing this is set in the very worn and tattered territory of the haunted-house genre. Then when you get a glimpse of the CGI critters causing all the mayhem, the scares completely vanish.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    Final Destination 5
    To borrow from TV terminology, the series hasn't jumped the shark yet, but the strain of inventing bizarre deaths is beginning to show.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Kirk Honeycutt
    The Help
    Taylor does capture the Jim Crow era and its anxieties well, but his characters tend toward the facile and his white heroine is too idealized.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Kirk Honeycutt
    30 Minutes or Less
    Fleischer stages one chase scene with a bit of comic flair but otherwise never locates that mix of macabre action and comedy that at least made "Zombieland" amusing.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Kirk Honeycutt
    The Change-Up
    The Change-Up bravely attempts to revive the dormant subgenre but it's a lame effort that grows increasingly frantic and foul-mouthed as the realization sets in that the gimmick isn't working.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Kirk Honeycutt
    Gun Hill Road
    Green has chosen for his focus to fall on Enrique, in many ways the least interesting character in his story, rather than the son or even the mother who is surprisingly protective and understanding.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Kirk Honeycutt
    El Bulli: Cooking in Progress
    The film never quite pins the chef down about any of this but in his menu introduction to the staff or off-hand remarks to long-time colleagues you begin to understand the mindset. "The more bewilderment, the better," he declares. He is not joking.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    Point Blank
    A high-wire act that almost slips as it edges perilously closer and closer to the edge of improbability. But it never does.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    Good Neighbors
    Good Neighbors is a film of acquired taste. If one is willing to accept humor in a movie about a serial killer, if one likes a thriller than emphasizes character over thrills, if one is susceptible to a cast of characters that includes three cats, then the movie has found its very selective target audience.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Kirk Honeycutt
    Life in a Day
    Life in a Day is an experimental project driven by the Internet at its best, where connectivity among the planet's population has become a reality.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 80 Kirk Honeycutt
    Cowboys & Aliens
    The key to its success lies in the determination by everyone involved to play the damn thing straight. Even the slightest goofiness, the tiniest touch of camp, and the whole thing would blow sky high. But it doesn't.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    Crazy, Stupid, Love
    The movie suffers perhaps from too many characters and subplots but all the actors appear to have fun with their characters.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    Captain America: The First Avenger
    Sticking to its simplistic, patriotic origins, where a muscular red, white and blue GI slugging Adolf Hitler in the jaw is all that's required, Captain America trafficks in red-blooded heroes, dastardly villains, classy dames and war-weary military officers.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 90 Kirk Honeycutt
    Sarah's Key
    The movie gathers momentum with a steady, assured pace, accumulating incidents, characters, secrets and lies until the rush of events is absolutely transfixing. Cinema can sometimes rival the novel in compulsive intensity and Sarah's Key is one such example.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Kirk Honeycutt
    Lucky
    Nothing is bleaker than failed black comedy, which this is.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
    So strong are the emotions - and, yes, the melodrama - that Snow Flower and the Secret Fan represents one of Wang's best films to date.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 30 Kirk Honeycutt
    Horrible Bosses
    The lameness of the gags and dialogue and the film's frequent deep dives for the bottom at the expense of real comedy speak to desperation in Hollywood to figure out the audience for contemporary naughty comedy.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 40 Kirk Honeycutt
    The Ledge
    Charlie Hunnam and Terrence Howard put enough actors' oomph into these ledge mates to make them authentic characters even though the film fails to achieve anything like the same level of authenticity.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 90 Kirk Honeycutt
    Another Earth
    The best science fiction tells stories about people in extraordinary environments or situations that serve to open up the vast, still largely unexplored terrain of the human heart. Mike Cahill's Another Earth is science fiction at its best.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Kirk Honeycutt
    Larry Crowne
    Every scene is on the prowl for laughs at the expense of the inherent drama in the lives of its colorful characters.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Kirk Honeycutt
    Transformers: Dark of the Moon
    The millions of man hours put into producing this techno shock and awe must be staggering. Everyone got his job done, but somewhere along the way, the movie got lost.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    Turtle: The Incredible Journey
    The loggerhead turtle's journey is indeed incredible. But you would rather the narration, delivered intelligently by Miranda Richardson, didn't feel a need to remind you of this fact so frequently.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    A Better Life
    By keeping things simple and understated, director Chris Weitz and screenwriter Eric Eason have crafted a little gem where humanity is observed with compassion, not condescension.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    Mr. Popper's Penguins
    The six penguins cast in this amiable family comedy steal the movie -- along with any fish they can find -- although the film's star, Jim Carrey, does manage to hold his own. Barely.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    Just Like Us
    The movie is fast, funny and light on its feet, dipping less into politics or religion than into cultural quirks and characteristics.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Kirk Honeycutt
    Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer
    The film wants to put on screen the sense of random play and concentrated games that fill a child's world for a few summers. In this it succeeds, but the film does not welcome others who might still retain memories of those NOT bummer summers.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Kirk Honeycutt
    Beginners
    All the movie's playfulness rubs off on the actors. Scenes crackle with life. The chemistry among all the actors is terrific.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    Rejoice and Shout
    For anyone with a keen interest in this unique American musical form, Rejoice and Shout is a must-see and see-again.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 60 Kirk Honeycutt
    Cost of a Soul
    While Kirkpatrick does a fine job in establishing a gritty inner-city milieu and a collection of more than credible street characters caught up in an endless cycle of crime and violence, his body count reaches the proportions of the worst sort of studio schlock. Going for a shock effect, he instead strains credulity and risks unintended laughs.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    How to Live Forever
    How To Live Forever is less about how to delay or defeat death than a film about what gives life meaning.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 10 Kirk Honeycutt
    The Big Bang
    Without Antonio Banderas, The Big Bang would be a whimper of a movie, too awful to watch.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Kirk Honeycutt
    Everything Must Go
    The film just doesn't mine enough humor or drama from this situation. Meanwhile most of the developments are wholly predictable.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 40 Kirk Honeycutt
    There Be Dragons
    British writer-director Roland Joffé dips a toe into explosive material - the Spanish Civil War, betrayal, sainthood, Opus Dei - but all these big themes and characters slip from his grasp.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Kirk Honeycutt
    Last Night
    Last Night is a sex tease, but that makes it sound more exciting than it ever becomes.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Kirk Honeycutt
    Jumping the Broom
    A wedding comedy that grows increasingly unfunny with each passing minute.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Kirk Honeycutt
    Something Borrowed
    Doesn't so much borrow from other movies as settle into a comfort zone of raising provocative questions regarding love, commitment and marriage only to dismiss them with a brush of a hand as so much dandruff.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    Prom
    The movie has a cheerful good nature and a solid cast of youngsters - including Aimee Teegarden and Thomas McDonell - but any resemblance between this and real high school is, of course, purely coincidental.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Kirk Honeycutt
    Cave of Forgotten Dreams
    To call this movie fascinating is akin to calling the Grand Canyon large.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Kirk Honeycutt
    POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
    So don't tell Spurlock he can't have his cake and eat it too. In Greatest Movie, he gleefully accepts his sponsorships on camera just to show you how wrong this all is.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    Zokkomon
    Zokkomon gives Indian youngsters not only their first super hero but, even more tantalizing, he is a young boy "terrorizing" susceptible adults in a small village to the increasingly delight of the town's children.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 90 Kirk Honeycutt
    African Cats
    The cinematography and editing are as superb as the film's feline stars are photogenic and heroic.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Kirk Honeycutt
    The Princess of Montpensier
    One of the finest costume dramas in a long while.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 0 Kirk Honeycutt
    Your Highness
    There is little worse in the movie world than a spoof that falls flat on its over-costumed butt, but that's what you get with Your Highness.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 Kirk Honeycutt
    Arthur
    In the end, it isn't so much that the New Arthur isn't the Old Arthur. Rather it's the anti-Arthur.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Kirk Honeycutt
    Wretches & Jabberers
    A documentary about autism that's nearly perfect in doing what an advocacy documentary should do: show rather than tell, entertain rather than preach.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    Hop
    Hop delivers plenty of wit, verve and surreal mayhem to entice even the post-adolescent crowd into this jolly (and strangely Christmas-like) Easter egg hunt.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Kirk Honeycutt
    Soul Surfer
    A true story of courage, determination and guts that deserves a more exciting approach.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    Wrecked
    Never less than gripping.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Kirk Honeycutt
    The 5th Quarter
    In The 5th Quarter, the filmmakers' hearts are in the right place but the execution couldn't be more wrong-headed.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Kirk Honeycutt
    Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules
    This time, tedium sets in early and never loosens its grip. The gags are obvious, predictable and dull.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Kirk Honeycutt
    Limitless
    Limitless should be so much smarter than it is.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Kirk Honeycutt
    Source Code
    The movie boils down to one character, acting under enormous pressures of space and time, racing to solve a mystery. In this case, that may be good enough.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    I Am
    Documentaries have been coming down on humanity so hard in recent years -- from "An Inconvenient Truth" to the latest Oscar winner, "Inside Job" -- that it's refreshing to bask in a bit of optimism coming from a nonfictional film.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Kirk Honeycutt
    The Lincoln Lawyer
    The film is only "superior" though, not great. The themes feel shopworn and devotee of crime fiction can point to the any number of antecedents for these characters.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Kirk Honeycutt
    Black Death
    Horror film buffs like to giggle as much as scream but there're no giggles here.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Kirk Honeycutt
    Mars Needs Moms
    The three most important things in movies are story, story, story so the movie never comes off as the considerable achievement it truly is.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 30 Kirk Honeycutt
    Beastly
    Rarely do films from Hollywood emerge in such an inane manner. Its rote characters are inevitably in predictable situations with no subtext or subtlety to any of their predicaments.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Kirk Honeycutt
    Take Me Home Tonight
    Michael Dowse's aggressively unfunny film which seeks the lowest common denominator in nearly every scene.
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