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Hank Stuever

Hank Stuever's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) 94% 3.5/4 EDIT “This is still a wonderful movie, so kinetically paced and pea-brained easy... It remains required viewing for anyone wishing to tell a story or impart a sense of what is right and what is wrong.” – Austin American-Statesman Apr 22, 2025 Full Review Titanic (1997) 88% 3.5/4 EDIT “A decently charming and heart-wrenching love story, Titanic briefly transforms itself into the pulsing action-adventure movie we never got last summer, and, at the same time, is a panic-stricken moral lesson about class and gender strife.” – Austin American-Statesman Mar 17, 2022 Full Review A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote (2020) 93% EDIT “The best parts are the interstitial breaks, taking up an additional 20 minutes, which feature Sorkinesque banter between cast members in the form of get-out-the-vote messages.” – Washington Post Dec 31, 2020 Full Review The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (2020) 96% EDIT “The footage and music from the band's initial dalliance with fame is as much or more fascinating than the "Saturday Night Fever" superstardom that lurked ahead.” – Washington Post Dec 14, 2020 Full Review Between the World and Me (2020) 95% EDIT “Old news footage transitions to recent outrages; dreams are shattered and reassembled to reflect unflinching truths. There's as much to look at as there is to hear; the words and images meld almost seamlessly.” – Washington Post Nov 20, 2020 Full Review The Sunset Limited (2011) 68% EDIT “On the simple strength of McCarthy's talent for dialogue (a hallmark of his highly regarded novels), The Sunset Limited moves along at a beautiful and surprisingly thought-provoking clip.” – Washington Post Aug 6, 2020 Full Review The Swamp (2020) 67% EDIT “"The Swamp" is watchable mainly for its willingness to hang around with the likes of 38-year-old Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and give him a fair and up-close chance to explain himself as a self-styled iconoclast.” – Washington Post Aug 4, 2020 Full Review The Go-Go's (2020) 98% EDIT “"The Go-Go's" benefits enormously from its determination to interview Olavarria and others who were left eating the band's dust.” – Washington Post Jul 30, 2020 Full Review Temple Grandin (2010) 100% EDIT “Temple Grandin is an amazingly assembled, superbly acted, strikingly sweet film about Grandin's life -- and the cows' death.” – Washington Post Jul 30, 2020 Full Review In Deep with Ryan Lochte (2020) EDIT “The look in Lochte's eyes, if I'm not mistaken, is one of increasing worry. Who is he, if no one's watching him?” – Washington Post Jul 14, 2020 Full Review Cinema Verite (2011) 61% EDIT “Cinema Verite gets too busy too fast, simplifying and overlooking much of what initially made An American Family the sociological treasure trove it still is.” – Washington Post Jun 3, 2020 Full Review Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012) 49% EDIT “A movie for people who love old bookstores but perhaps don't own very many books.” – Washington Post May 29, 2020 Full Review Becoming (2020) 93% EDIT “"Becoming" is most memorable, however, as a chronicle of Obama's interactions with the public, who stand in line for hours to get their copies of "Becoming" signed and, in turn, receive more than just a nod.” – Washington Post May 5, 2020 Full Review Bad Education (2019) 94% EDIT “Such stories of quiet malfeasance never get old. No matter how lovely and admired the neighborhood lawns may be, the idea that there's a snake or two in the grass hasn't lost its narrative potency - even now, in an era of constant, top-down deceit.” – Washington Post Apr 23, 2020 Full Review Live in Front of a Studio Audience: 'All in the Family' and 'Good Times' (2019) 80% EDIT “Mostly fun to watch, if at certain moments stressful, as a few of today's actors occasionally struggled with the live format and the precise rhythm of old-school, multicamera comedy dialogue.” – Washington Post Dec 19, 2019 Full Review Knock Knock, It's Tig Notaro (2015) 89% EDIT “There's a sweet, subtle awareness that there are pockets of cool people almost anywhere you go now, and that their doors are always open.” – Washington Post Aug 1, 2019 Full Review The Lavender Scare (2017) 95% EDIT “Compelling one-hour documentary...” – Washington Post Jul 9, 2019 Full Review Running With Beto (2019) 91% EDIT “Oddly,... "Running With Beto" is most compelling when O'Rourke isn't in it.” – Washington Post May 30, 2019 Full Review Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons' (2019) 88% EDIT “That turned out to be the true challenge for everyone involved - were they in this for real or just for kicks? Was there a way to honor their characters as they were and yet somehow innovate a little? Or was it just a game of dress-up and pretend?” – Washington Post May 23, 2019 Full Review Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists (2018) 100% EDIT “Breslin and Hamill may preach too long, but its copious valentines are appropriately strewn with little heartbreaks.” – Washington Post Jan 28, 2019 Full Review Fyre (2019) 93% EDIT “Still, "Fyre Fraud" edges out Netflix's film by stepping back and delivering on the stronger, more despairing theme here, which is very clearly this: Society... is losing its ability to sense a snake in the grass.” – Washington Post Jan 17, 2019 Full Review Momentum Generation (2018) 100% EDIT “Momentum Generation puts out a notably wide welcome mat, which means you don't have to know or even care that much about pro-surfing history to become absorbed by it.” – Washington Post Dec 11, 2018 Full Review Too Big to Fail (2011) 77% EDIT “The movie may do an adequate job of mining what's left of our collective outrage, but it comes up short as an artistic expression of post-recession catharsis.” – Washington Post Jun 25, 2018 Full Review Believer (2018) 64% EDIT “"Believer"... [is] ultimately about a straight, white, married father of three who wants to have it all ways - to be seen by his worldwide fans as an enlightened and empathetic rock star while remaining faithful to his church.” – Washington Post Jun 25, 2018 Full Review Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind (2018) 94% EDIT “Less is said about Williams's final years and the exact circumstances of his death, but there is a sense of a life lived fully and wildly.” – Washington Post Jun 14, 2018 Full Review
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