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honeycuttshollywood.com is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Kirk Honeycutt.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
7/10
Tommy's Honour (2016) Kirk Honeycutt Jason Connery's 'Tommy's Honour' unpacks early history of golf to satisfying dramatic results.
Posted Apr 13, 2017  Edit critic review
4/10
The Great Wall (2016) Kirk Honeycutt The vision here is that of producers with eyes on box office and little concern for creativity.
Posted Feb 22, 2017  Edit critic review
7/10
20th Century Women (2016) Kirk Honeycutt Mike Mills gets just the right bittersweet tone here.
Posted Jan 23, 2017  Edit critic review
4/10
Patriots Day (2016) Kirk Honeycutt Too many compromises undermine the latest Peter Berg/Mark Wahlberg collaboration.
Posted Jan 16, 2017  Edit critic review
4/10
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) Kirk Honeycutt The story itself is unwieldy, padded and almost entirely reliant upon CGI for forward momentum.
Posted Nov 21, 2016  Edit critic review
9/10
Arrival (2016) Kirk Honeycutt "Arrival" embarrasses the current mode of contemporary cinema to explore ideas, moods and a vision that belongs uniquely to this film.
Posted Nov 14, 2016  Edit critic review
6/10
Inferno (2016) Kirk Honeycutt Ron Howard is good at detailing exactly how people escape a remorseless fate and pulp fiction such as "Inferno" is no exception.
Posted Oct 31, 2016  Edit critic review
4/10
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016) Kirk Honeycutt Thanks to Tom Cruise and Ed Zwick, 'Jack Reacher' does transcend the limitations of its genre and a by-the-numbers screenplay.
Posted Oct 24, 2016  Edit critic review
5/10
The Light Between Oceans (2016) Kirk Honeycutt Pictorial beauty in a David Lean sort of way and a mesmerizing quality might convince a viewer 'The Light Between Oceans,' a contrived and emotionally manipulative tale, has real credibility.
Posted Sep 02, 2016  Edit critic review
3/10
Morgan (2016) Kirk Honeycutt The utter failure of 'Morgan' underscores what happens when a filmmaker enters strip-mined territory with nary an original idea.
Posted Aug 31, 2016  Edit critic review
5/10
Anthropoid (2016) Kirk Honeycutt The shame is that for all the years of research and planning that went into making this film, Sean Ellis didn't allow himself the luxury of invention.
Posted Aug 12, 2016  Edit critic review
9/10
Hell or High Water (2016) Kirk Honeycutt "Hell or High Water" may be the best picture released so far in 2016.
Posted Aug 11, 2016  Edit critic review
6/10
Pete's Dragon (2016) Kirk Honeycutt With 'Pete's Dragon' you sense a rare opportunity for a Disney classic slipped through the filmmakers' fingers.
Posted Aug 10, 2016  Edit critic review
8/10
Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) Kirk Honeycutt Stephen Frears' film achieves that remarkable and nearly unobtainable artistic plateau of sad-funny.
Posted Aug 09, 2016  Edit critic review
4/10
Suicide Squad (2016) Kirk Honeycutt David Ayer is of the realist school of action filmmaking and this doesn't jibe well with fantastical fights and outrageous cartoon characters.
Posted Aug 05, 2016  Edit critic review
6/10
Tallulah (2016) Kirk Honeycutt "Tallulah" is one of those films on a filmmaker's resume that denotes promise more than accomplishment.
Posted Jul 26, 2016  Edit critic review
7/10
Don't Think Twice (2016) Kirk Honeycutt "Don't Think Twice" is one of the better movies you'll see about what it takes to establish a viable career in show business.
Posted Jul 20, 2016  Edit critic review
5/10
Café Society (2016) Kirk Honeycutt The movie's final grace note is deeply felt, so much so you wish Woody Allen had chosen another route to get there.
Posted Jul 14, 2016  Edit critic review
6/10
Captain Fantastic (2016) Kirk Honeycutt Well worth catching if only for a lively debate afterwards about the advantages/disadvantages of unplugged rearing and education programs for children.
Posted Jul 09, 2016  Edit critic review
6/10
The Secret Life of Pets (2016) Kirk Honeycutt Illumination Entertainment has concocted an easy-to-like and easy-to-laugh animated feature for mostly smaller viewers.
Posted Jul 08, 2016  Edit critic review
2/10
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016) Kirk Honeycutt What Mike and Dave really need are a few jokes, a coherent screenplay and some direction - any direction at all might have helped.
Posted Jul 05, 2016  Edit critic review
6/10
The Legend of Tarzan (2016) Kirk Honeycutt Given the challenges, which the filmmakers tiptoe through with surprising agility, the new 'Tarzan' is quite adequate in delivering old-fashioned adventures.
Posted Jul 01, 2016  Edit critic review
4/10
The BFG (2016) Kirk Honeycutt "The BFG" gets caught between old-fashioned Dickensian fairy stories and the new, exciting worlds imagined by the Pixar crew.
Posted Jun 30, 2016  Edit critic review
4/10
Our Kind of Traitor (2016) Kirk Honeycutt "Our Kind of Traitor" does many things well but the feeling afterwards is, unfortunately, one of disappointment.
Posted Jun 28, 2016  Edit critic review
8/10
Free State of Jones (2016) Kirk Honeycutt This may be one of the most honest American films about slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction ever made.
Posted Jun 28, 2016  Edit critic review
4/10
The Shallows (2016) Kirk Honeycutt The key missing ingredient in "The Shallows" is any motivation to make this movie other than a summer-time diversion.
Posted Jun 24, 2016  Edit critic review
7/10
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words (2016) Kirk Honeycutt Thorsten Schüette's 'Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words' will, one hopes, restore Zappa to his rightful place in music history.
Posted Jun 20, 2016  Edit critic review
8/10
Finding Dory (2016) Kirk Honeycutt A world-wide aquatic playground filled with rambunctious slapstick, Dickensian sea creatures, astonishing visual beauty and relentless albeit implausible jeopardy.
Posted Jun 16, 2016  Edit critic review
7/10
De Palma (2015) Kirk Honeycutt Brian De Palma has been the most neglected of the '70s Movie Brats in recent critical discourse - and unfairly so.
Posted Jun 14, 2016  Edit critic review
4/10
Genius (2016) Kirk Honeycutt "Genius" represents a failed opportunity to get at the heart of the creative process.
Posted Jun 09, 2016  Edit critic review
5
Money Monster (2016) Kirk Honeycutt It's 'Dog Day Afternoon' meets 'Network' meets 'Inside Man' meets 'The King of Comedy' and that's far too many 'meets' to strike an original cord.
Posted May 12, 2016  Edit critic review
4
X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) Kirk Honeycutt The end - of the movie, not the world -can't come soon enough.
Posted May 10, 2016  Edit critic review
6
Captain America: Civil War (2016) Kirk Honeycutt The movie fumbles the question at the very heart of the Avengers but not before giving its fan base plenty of reasons to cheer.
Posted May 04, 2016  Edit critic review
3
Mother's Day (2016) Kirk Honeycutt It's a hopeless task to point out incessant clichs, formulaic story structure and sappy nonsense that cheerfully take up residence in the Garry Marshall Experience
Posted Apr 29, 2016  Edit critic review
7
The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015) Kirk Honeycutt Matthew Brown does a fine job of cutting through the math chat to give you the living, breathing men who collaborated and clashed a century ago.
Posted Apr 27, 2016  Edit critic review
7
Elvis & Nixon (2016) Kirk Honeycutt 'Elvis & Nixon' catches both men at a nexus of absurdist comedy and overwhelming personality disorders.
Posted Apr 20, 2016  Edit critic review
8
A Hologram for the King (2016) Kirk Honeycutt 'A Hologram for a King' is that fine and rare thing, a comedy that makes profound observations with the lightest of touches.
Posted Apr 19, 2016  Edit critic review
8
The Jungle Book (2016) Kirk Honeycutt 'The Jungle Book' transports you back to childhood games surrounded by a photo-reality that commands awe with every frame.
Posted Apr 13, 2016  Edit critic review
2
The Boss (2016) Kirk Honeycutt Melissa McCarthy meet Michelle Darnell . You really should get to know each other better.
Posted Apr 07, 2016  Edit critic review
4
Demolition (2015) Kirk Honeycutt When everything in a movie is reduced to a metaphor then nothing is the least bit real.
Posted Apr 06, 2016  Edit critic review
5
The Bronze (2015) Kirk Honeycutt 'The Bronze' is a sports movie that gets many things right although not enough to represent a game changer.
Posted Mar 16, 2016  Edit critic review
4
Remember (2015) Kirk Honeycutt Atom Egoyan chooses a risky approach to a Holocaust theme that many will find highly unsatisfying if not risible.
Posted Mar 15, 2016  Edit critic review
7
The Clan (2015) Kirk Honeycutt Perhaps what disturbs a viewer the most is director Pablo Trapero is making none of this up.
Posted Mar 14, 2016  Edit critic review
3
The Brothers Grimsby (2016) Kirk Honeycutt Sacha Baron Cohen - creator of Borat, Bruno and Ali G - loses his mojo big time in 'The Brothers Grimsby.'
Posted Mar 12, 2016  Edit critic review
8
Eye in the Sky (2015) Kirk Honeycutt Never has a movie been able to wring so much tension from shots of people staring at screens and computer monitors.
Posted Mar 07, 2016  Edit critic review
2
London Has Fallen (2016) Kirk Honeycutt The film bears a closer resemblance to a shooter video game than an actual movie.
Posted Mar 04, 2016  Edit critic review
8
Zootopia (2016) Kirk Honeycutt Donald Trump would scream 'loser' were he to see Disney's 'Zootopia.'
Posted Mar 03, 2016  Edit critic review
5
Knight of Cups (2015) Kirk Honeycutt The questions Malick seems to be pursuing are those that go back to the beginning of time, only highly aestheticized
Posted Mar 02, 2016  Edit critic review
5
The Wave (2015) Kirk Honeycutt Roar Uthuag assembles everything a Hollywood studio would demand: stock characters, massive CGI, impressive scenery and a family in jeopardy.
Posted Mar 01, 2016  Edit critic review
4
Triple 9 (2016) Kirk Honeycutt A grim urban landscape of dirty cops, corrupt ex-special forces ops, ruthless mobsters and vicious gang members allows for no moral high ground.
Posted Feb 22, 2016  Edit critic review
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