Ken Tucker

Ken Tucker Philadelphia Inquirer Sep 9, 2025 4/5 A witty, intricate, loud and lewd satire of the rock world. Go to Full Review This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 98% 92%

Ken Tucker Entertainment Weekly Sep 6, 2023 B+ Sayles has surrounded his hero with other, more interesting characters and has warmed Lone Star with the glow of a humanist optimism rare in contemporary movies. Go to Full Review Lone Star (1996) 91% 83%

Ken Tucker Entertainment Weekly Aug 10, 2020 B The result is a pro-euthanasia argument told as a lovable-old-coot story. It's probably the best way to sell such a grim tale. Go to Full Review You Don't Know Jack (2010) 83% 83%

Ken Tucker Entertainment Weekly Aug 4, 2020 Any production with an agenda like this was bound to be jarringly didactic, a surprisingly crucial flaw for a TV-movie with such talented people in front of and behind the camera. Go to Full Review The Girl (2012) 70% 41%

Ken Tucker Entertainment Weekly May 29, 2020 For a two-and-a-half-hour-plus biopic, it was maddeningly, irresistibly watchable. Every time I thought I was going to throw in the towel, the film simply took off in a fresh direction and I was hooked all over again. Go to Full Review Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012) 49% 40%

Ken Tucker Entertainment Weekly May 11, 2020 Franco could have walked through the role and done a passable Dean, but instead gets under the skin of this insecure, rootless young man. Go to Full Review James Dean (2001) 93% 76%

Ken Tucker Entertainment Weekly Apr 29, 2020 A- In its re-creation of a time and spirit that our pop culture has so eagerly enshrined in instant legend, this clear-eyed, unsentimental movie is a small marvel of honesty and craft. Go to Full Review The Rat Pack (1998) 57% 58%

Ken Tucker Entertainment Weekly Jan 15, 2020 B+ [Tim] Matheson's performance is truly moving, and the drama of Sometimes They Come Back is stronger stuff than most TV movies. Go to Full Review Sometimes They Come Back (1991) 45% 61%

Ken Tucker Entertainment Weekly Jan 15, 2020 B When [Lawrence D.] Cohen taps into King's greatest theme - families in peril from forces beyond their understanding - The Tommyknockers can be moving. The rest of the time, it's never less than an entertaining goof. Go to Full Review The Tommyknockers (1993) 35% 39%

Ken Tucker Entertainment Weekly Jan 15, 2020 B Even though the langoliers are pretty obviously computer-animated special effects, these little meatballs are still pretty scary. Go to Full Review Stephen King's 'The Langoliers' (1995) 48% 46%

Ken Tucker Entertainment Weekly Sep 30, 2019 B- Despite the film's solid performances - careful understatement by Scolari, straightforwardness by the young men, as well as sharp work in a small role by Darren McGavin - Perfect Harmony remains just a well-crafted TV movie, no more, no less. Go to Full Review Perfect Harmony (1991) - - 92%

Ken Tucker Entertainment Weekly Sep 30, 2019 B Heidi has both tenderness and spunk. Go to Full Review Heidi (1993) 100% 73%

Ken Tucker Yahoo.com Aug 6, 2019 If you don't laugh at Macdonald's material about cellphones and George Washington chopping down the cherry tree - well, I'm sorry, but you're just not a smart person if you don't find his stuff funny. Go to Full Review Norm Macdonald: Hitler's Dog, Gossip, & Trickery (2017) 100% 100%

Ken Tucker Entertainment Weekly Aug 2, 2019 B+ One crucial trait that distinguishes [Chris] Rock from every other comedian of his generation is that his jokes proceed from a thought-out political philosophy containing both radical and conservative elements. Go to Full Review Chris Rock: Bigger & Blacker (1999) 86% 89%

Ken Tucker Entertainment Weekly Aug 2, 2019 With his wide, goofy grin and perpetually bemused, oh-my-gosh manner, Macdonald can render the most grim or poor-taste subjects amusing. Go to Full Review Norm Macdonald: Me Doing Standup (2011) - - 86%

Ken Tucker Yahoo.com Jul 12, 2019 This special doesn't quite fit in with Netflix's lineup of cool comedy like BoJack and hip standup specials, but that just makes Dunham's entry onto the streaming network that much more novel and welcome. Go to Full Review Jeff Dunham: Relative Disaster (2017) - - 67%

Ken Tucker Entertainment Weekly May 30, 2019 B Fall from Grace could have been, at its most daring, an indictment of televangelism and, at the least, an entertaining hoot; instead, it's a baleful drag with superlative acting. Go to Full Review Fall From Grace (1990) 50% - -

Ken Tucker AARP Movies for Grownups May 15, 2019 What's My Name: Muhammad Ali, comes as close as any film yet made to capturing that vast complexity of the man. Go to Full Review What's My Name: Muhammad Ali (2019) 96% - -

Ken Tucker Entertainment Weekly Jan 24, 2019 In the manner of all such Lifetime productions, The Client List managed to offer cheap thrills...while offering moral uplift. Go to Full Review The Client List (2010) 83% 43%

Ken Tucker Entertainment Weekly Oct 8, 2018 B- The cast is terrific, Curry’s cackle is chilling, and King’s usual buried theme — about the pain adults inflict on children without even realizing it (It?) — is always worth pondering Go to Full Review Stephen King's It (1990) 70% 64%