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Critics / Jason Heck
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    JASON HECK

    Agrees with the Tomatometer 64% of the time.

    Publications: Kansas City Star

    Total Reviews: 36

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    Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date (default)

    Rotten
    2/4

    Rotten
    45%

    Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)

    " Kids will go crazy, as most of the humor is pitched at their level. Mom and Dad might wish they’d gone to the pool instead."

    Posted Jun 30, 2009

    Rotten
    1.5/4

    Rotten
    38%

    Imagine That (2009)

    " One of the most squirm-inducing saccharine-sweet movies to come along in a long time."

    Posted Jun 12, 2009

    Rotten
    2/4

    Rotten
    10%

    My Life in Ruins (2009)

    " The movie ambles lazily when it ought to soar."

    Posted Jun 5, 2009

    Rotten
    1.5/4

    Rotten
    22%

    Next Day Air (2009)

    " Guy Ritchie called. He wants all of his movies back."

    Posted May 8, 2009

    Fresh
    4/4

    Fresh
    100%

    The Wild Child (1970)

    " Francois Truffaut was not only a founder of the French New Wave, he was a passionate and keen chronicler of young people, how they grew and evolved and sought purpose in a larger world."

    Posted May 1, 2009

    Rotten
    2/4

    Rotten
    47%

    Battle for Terra (2009)

    " A film that will delight anyone under 6, and almost no one else."

    Posted May 1, 2009

    Fresh
    2.5/4

    Rotten
    32%

    Fanboys (2009)

    " t’s the strong Star Wars/geek-centric nature of the film that helps it succeed."

    Posted Feb 27, 2009

    Rotten
    1.5/4

    Rotten
    13%

    The Pink Panther 2 (2009)

    " The film’s director, Harald Zwart, has little grasp of timing, which is crucial in slapstick. The result is frantic activity with few payoffs."

    Posted Feb 6, 2009

    Fresh
    2.5/4

    Rotten
    32%

    The Uninvited (2009)

    " It offers plenty of mood, a few good scares and enough twists to keep not just horror fans but mainstream audiences hooked."

    Posted Jan 29, 2009

    Rotten
    2/4

    Rotten
    47%

    Chandni Chowk to China (2009)

    " Chandni Chowk to China is an energetic mess."

    Posted Jan 16, 2009

    Rotten
    2/4

    Rotten
    35%

    Not Easily Broken (2009)

    " The movie sinks beneath a great mass of clichés until the audience has no choice but to wearily raise its hands in surrender."

    Posted Jan 9, 2009

    Fresh
    3/4

    Rotten
    15%

    The Spirit (2008)

    " The style dazzles, evoking everything wonderful and terrible from film noir and combining it with a likable hero and wonderfully pulpy premise."

    Posted Dec 29, 2008

    Fresh
    2.5/4

    Rotten
    51%

    Nothing Like the Holidays (2008)

    " Have you seen it before? Well, yeah. Lots. But have you seen it quite like this? Doubtful."

    Posted Dec 12, 2008

    Rotten
    1/4

    Rotten
    26%

    Punisher: War Zone (2008)

    " Punisher: War Zone is the best Punisher movie of the three made so far. That said, it’s still terrible."

    Posted Dec 5, 2008

    Rotten
    2/4

    N/A

    Familiar Strangers (2008)

    " Familiar is right."

    Posted Nov 26, 2008

    Rotten
    2/4

    Fresh
    64%

    Sixty Six (2008)

    " A film that tries too hard and wastes a cast of skilled veterans and talented newcomers."

    Posted Nov 14, 2008

    Fresh
    3/4

    Fresh
    78%

    Ashes of Time Redux (1994)

    " In the end, it’s not unlike a Jackson Pollock painting. No matter how close or how far away you stand from it, some people just get it and some people don’t."

    Posted Nov 14, 2008

    Fresh
    2.5/4

    Rotten
    45%

    Soul Men (2008)

    " Ultimately, Soul Men achieves modest goals comedically and soars high musically, and it deserves credit for that."

    Posted Nov 7, 2008

    Fresh
    3/4

    Rotten
    34%

    Pride and Glory (2008)

    " Pride and Glory breaks no new ground in its ruminations on fathers and sons and the bonds of the NYPD, but it treads well-marked territory with energy and refuses to pull its punches or indulge in cheap sentiment or emotional gimmickry."

    Posted Oct 24, 2008

    Fresh
    2.5/4

    Rotten
    18%

    Max Payne (2008)

    " It's stylishly directed by John Moore, and his actors don't embarrass themselves, despite the iffy premise."

    Posted Oct 17, 2008

    Fresh
    2.5/4

    Rotten
    45%

    Sex Drive (2008)

    " Sex Drive is a cut above a lot of the garbage aimed at the nation’s hapless 18- to 24-year-old moviegoers."

    Posted Oct 17, 2008

    Fresh

    N/A

    Dolphins and Whales 3D: Tribes of the Ocean (2008)

    " Rarely have images been so breathtaking."

    Posted Sep 5, 2008

    Fresh
    3/4

    Rotten
    43%

    Death Race (2008)

    " While steel-plated cars bristling with firepower are guaranteed to get adolescent hearts stirring, the movie offers myriad pleasures for adults."

    Posted Aug 22, 2008

    Fresh
    2.5/4

    Fresh
    82%

    Tropic Thunder (2008)

    " Tropic Thunder hits more than it misses, due in large part to its charismatic cast of well-known faces. Stiller’s mugging doesn’t get old, and Jack Black … well, can anyone do hysterical heroin withdrawal better than Jack Black?"

    Posted Aug 13, 2008

    Fresh
    3.5/4

    Fresh
    96%

    Up The Yangtze (2007)

    " Up the Yangtze is a reminder that every little family matters and that economic miracles are zero-sum games."

    Posted Jul 18, 2008

    Rotten
    1/4

    Rotten
    37%

    Space Chimps (2008)

    " Space Chimps is animated filmmaking done on the cheap financially and creatively, and that leads to simple math: Tired Visuals + Lame Script + D-List Voice Acting = Dumb movie."

    Posted Jul 18, 2008

    Rotten
    2/4

    Rotten
    19%

    Meet Dave (2008)

    " [Murphy] might want to remember that people over 12 used to enjoy his movies as well."

    Posted Jul 11, 2008

    Rotten
    2/4

    Rotten
    21%

    Sing Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace (2007)

    " It’s an inoffensive and unchallenging little film."

    Posted Jun 6, 2008

    Rotten
    2/4

    Rotten
    36%

    You Don't Mess With The Zohan (2008)

    " It’s at its best when Adam Sandler is catching fish with his buttocks, just like most of his movies."

    Posted Jun 6, 2008

    Fresh
    2.5/4

    Rotten
    44%

    The Strangers (2008)

    " Director Bryan Bertino brings an intimacy to his film that differentiates it from most of the slasher tripe out there, despite a creakily shopworn premise."

    Posted May 30, 2008

    Fresh
    2.5/4

    Rotten
    48%

    Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)

    " While this movie lacks the screaming energy and consistency of Shaun of the Dead and his hysterical Hot Fuzz, Pegg is able to keep things interesting."

    Posted Mar 28, 2008

    Fresh
    3/4

    Fresh
    75%

    City of Men (2008)

    " It’s strong enough to hold your interest and well-done enough to make you care about these boys, their families and their futures in a fascinating place where most American audiences have never been."

    Posted Feb 29, 2008

    Fresh
    2.5/4

    Fresh
    67%

    How She Move (2008)

    " Don’t go for the plot. Go for the dancing. It’s electrifying."

    Posted Jan 25, 2008

    Rotten
    1.5/4

    Rotten
    14%

    First Sunday (2008)

    " It tries far too hard and achieves far too little. The laughs it causes are guilty ones, but not that guilty, because there aren’t that many."

    Posted Jan 11, 2008

    Rotten
    2/4

    Rotten
    36%

    Sleuth (2007)

    " The back-and-forth goes on and on, increasingly impenetrable. Talk. Poke. Provoke. Repeat."

    Posted Nov 9, 2007

    Rotten
    2/4

    N/A

    Midnight Clear (2005)

    " Like something for the Hallmark Channel."

    Posted Nov 9, 2007
     
     
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