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Michele Kenner

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

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Five Days Without Nora (2008) 89% 3/4 EDIT “Yes, you read that right: Jewish suicide comedy.” – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel May 12, 2011 Full Review Certified Copy (2010) 89% 3/4 EDIT “Prompts many questions about the true nature of art and love, not all of them answered.” – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Apr 21, 2011 Full Review The Grace Card (2010) 37% 2/4 EDIT “A series of hard-to-swallow coincidences wrap up the story too neatly.” – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Feb 24, 2011 Full Review Today's Special (2009) 81% 3/4 EDIT “The movie is comfortably familiar and plays to the palate of those who don't want too much spice in their foodie comedies.” – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Dec 9, 2010 Full Review Soul Power (2008) 85% 3.5/4 EDIT “Watching Soul Power is like flipping through Polaroids of that era. The color is a little washed out and everyone looks amazingly young.” – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Sep 17, 2009 Full Review In the Loop (2009) 94% 3/4 EDIT “In the Loop is nonstop, go-go-go verbal action that makes Wag the Dog seem like a mind-numbing cricket match.” – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Sep 10, 2009 Full Review Throw Down Your Heart (2008) 84% 3/4 EDIT “It's a journey long on affecting songs and musical passages, and short on scholarship -- and that works just fine for Fleck's intentions.” – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Aug 13, 2009 Full Review Last Chance Harvey (2008) 71% 3/4 EDIT “Writer-director Joel Hopkins should thank his lucky stars that Hoffman and Thompson are on board. Some of the story and dialogue are hokey, but the actors overcome those obstacles.” – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Jan 15, 2009 Full Review The Duchess (2008) 62% 3/4 EDIT “It's a beautiful period piece that will send you to a bookstore for a better account of the dirt and vice at its core.” – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Oct 10, 2008 Full Review Elegy (2008) 74% 3/4 EDIT “This is Kingsley's show from start to finish, as he wraps himself in Kepesh's mantle of singularity.” – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Sep 18, 2008 Full Review Outsourced (2006) 78% 3/4 EDIT “Sending jobs overseas, a hot-button issue for some Americans, gets gentle, good-natured treatment in Outsourced.” – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Sep 5, 2008 Full Review The Favor (2006) 39% 2.5/4 EDIT “Nothing extraordinary happens, and [director] Aradjis relies on Wood and Donowho to carry the slight thread of a film.” – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel May 16, 2008 Full Review The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006) 81% 3/4 EDIT “... a sharply drawn coming-of-age comedy-drama...” – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel May 15, 2008 Full Review Praying With Lior (2007) 82% 2.5/4 EDIT “A messy brew, sometimes manipulative, with no real conclusions, as Lior, though highly functional, cannot explain his deep sense of religion and those around him are too supportive to question.” – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel May 1, 2008 Full Review The First Saturday in May (2007) 69% 3/4 EDIT “The filmmakers emphasize the disparate personalities of the trainers, who can taste victory with every stride of the beautiful animals with whom they work, groom and feed.” – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Apr 25, 2008 Full Review Bonneville (2006) 40% 3/4 EDIT “The characters, situations and resolutions all are predictable and fit like a warm, stretched-out sweater with holes in the elbows.” – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Apr 25, 2008 Full Review Daughters of Wisdom (2007) 80% 2/4 EDIT “Some individual moments hit home, but the cumulative effect doesn't add up to anything more than a peek at Tibetan culture.” – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Apr 11, 2008 Full Review I for India (2005) 100% 2.5/4 EDIT “It's a tale that many immigrant families around the world could tell, but probably without as much documentation.” – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Apr 4, 2008 Full Review The Memory Thief (2007) 80% 3/4 EDIT “The Memory Thief, the first narrative feature by Gil Kofman, grants intimate entrance into a needy person's life -- a life bent around the facts of the darkest hours of the 20th century.” – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Mar 28, 2008 Full Review The Bank Job (2008) 79% 2.5/4 EDIT “It's a routine treatment of a heist too outrageous to be believed, even if it is based on a true story.” – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Mar 7, 2008 Full Review Be Kind Rewind (2008) 64% 3/4 EDIT “Loopy, goofy and endearing.” – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Feb 22, 2008 Full Review I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006) 87% 2.5/4 EDIT “A subtle, slow-moving presentation of hope and responsibility that will test your patience if you are not a fan of elliptical, dreamlike narratives like those in Tsai's films.” – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Nov 29, 2007 Full Review For the Bible Tells Me So (2007) 98% 3/4 EDIT “The movie's serious, wide-ranging look at a divisive subject is not guaranteed to settle disputes, only to prompt discussion.” – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Nov 29, 2007 Full Review Reservation Road (2007) 36% 2/4 EDIT “The bulk of the movie rings false.” – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Nov 1, 2007 Full Review This Is England (2006) 93% 3.5/4 EDIT “This Is England grabs you by the scruff of the neck and yanks you into the Thatcher 1980s with brute force.” – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Sep 27, 2007 Full Review
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