Graham Killeen

Graham Killeen

Agrees with the Tomatometer 67% of the time.

Publications:
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Total Reviews:
128

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
3/4 52% Out of the Furnace (2013) " A surprisingly unwatered-down signature flavor, mixing motor oil, gunpowder, sweat, pig iron, dollar bills, denim, skunky beer, blood and dirty socks." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Dec 5, 2013
2/4 61% Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013) " Prop gags that "Saturday Night Live" might stretch to fill an entire sketch fizzle almost immediately, while director Jeff Tremaine's low-def hidden-camera footage often looks like it was shot on Skype." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Oct 24, 2013
2/4 49% Escape Plan (2013) " "Escape Plan's" totally unstylish production design somehow seems less cinematic than real life. A script with zingers including "You hit like a vegetarian" doesn't exactly pump up the excitement either." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Oct 17, 2013
1.5/4 34% Salinger (2013) " Just because most attempts to deconstruct reclusive artists like J.D. Salinger are mechanically illustrative yet poetically disappointing doesn't mean they have to be so shameless. Or outright crummy." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Sep 19, 2013
2/4 29% The Family (2013) " The movie's dark humor and realistic, often sexual violence go together about as well as Cabernet and a mugging." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Sep 12, 2013
3/4 60% Riddick (2013) " Always bet on Diesel - especially when he's doing what he's most average at, which happens to be starring in sci-fi "Conan the Barbarian" knock-offs." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Sep 5, 2013
2.5/4 40% Closed Circuit (2013) " Although cloak-and-dagger fans might be intrigued by the foggy atmosphere, "Closed Circuit's" conspiracy theories are mostly suspect." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Aug 28, 2013
2/4 29% Kick-Ass 2 (2013) " "Kick-Ass 2" literally stabs good taste in the eye, featuring dismemberments aplenty and so many raunchy one-liners Hit-Girl's alter-ego might actually be Joan Rivers." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Aug 15, 2013
2/4 47% We're The Millers (2013) " "The Millers" might be the first movie ever made that could have been improved by casting Pamela Anderson, Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan and Chris Brown." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Aug 7, 2013
3/4 47% I'm So Excited! (2013) " Almodóvar joins the mile-high club, setting his films' trademark sexcapades, overwrought telenovella plot twists and bubblegum-colored imagery aboard a doomed airliner." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Jul 25, 2013
2.5/4 41% Red 2 (2013) " The most significant difference between "RED 2" and the original film is its surprising lack of authentic human behavior." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Jul 18, 2013
2/4 75% The East (2013) " "The East's" eco-friendly politics might be Swiss, but its overly sentimental storyline is pure Velveeta." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Jun 20, 2013
3.5/4 98% Before Midnight (2013) " Hawke, Delpy and director Richard Linklater strike sparks like never before and, in the process, question everything Jesse and Celine have gone through - even the notions of fate and true love that brought them together." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Jun 13, 2013
2/4 87% Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) " Jettisoning the franchise's optimistic, socially aware sci-fi, not to mention character development or a logical plot, Darkness turns out to be any Vulcan's worst nightmare: Team America: World Police with Tribbles." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted May 14, 2013
3/4 98% Mud (2013) " As far as brawny dramas or ripping coming-of-age yarns go, you could do a lot worse than getting stuck in the "Mud."" — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Apr 25, 2013
2/4 62% Evil Dead (2013) " A dead end." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Apr 4, 2013
2/4 48% Olympus Has Fallen (2013) " Ultimately, "Olympus Has Fallen" would have lost no more credibility if it revealed that the White House was actually made of birthday cake and Butler had to eat his way to safety." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Mar 21, 2013
2.5/4 38% Admission (2013) " It's a nice movie, but it's actually also kind of good." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Mar 21, 2013
1.5/4 52% Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) " As directorial regressions go, "Jack the Giant Slayer" seems positively M. Night Shyamalanian." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Feb 28, 2013
2/4 46% Beautiful Creatures (2013) " Too bad Ehrenreich and Englert have so little chemistry; it often appears director Richard LaGravenese shot their scenes with stand-ins." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Feb 14, 2013
3/4 61% Jack Reacher (2012) " A workmanlike take on "Jack Reacher" that fittingly adapts Child's fragmented sentences and blunt-force drama. Call it "Hemingway of the Gun."" — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Dec 20, 2012
2/4 12% Red Dawn (2012) " If you need a "Red Dawn" fix, just rent the original." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Nov 20, 2012
3/4 86% Wreck-it Ralph (2012) " "Wreck-It Ralph" doesn't just wreck 'em. It darn near kills 'em." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Nov 1, 2012
3/4 77% Samsara (2012) " Crams all of the supersized format's extra resolution into a standard image that's so pristine it often feels like 3-D." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Oct 11, 2012
3.5/4 83% Seven Psychopaths (2012) " All great films are both fairy tales and confessionals, and when the two collide, what's left beyond the crumple zone is magic." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Oct 11, 2012
2/4 33% Won't Back Down (2012) " "Won't Back Down's" suggestions for improving K-12 education include having kids wish themselves into college using "The Secret." Yeah, that should do it." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Sep 27, 2012
3.5/4 78% Killer Joe (2012) " Resembling yard sculptures in a trailer park, where trash becomes art, "Killer Joe" is a Picasso signed with a branding iron." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Sep 13, 2012
2/4 79% Ruby Sparks (2012) " Where's writer's block when you really need it?" — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Aug 2, 2012
3/4 51% Savages (2012) " For a mess, "Savages" is a big, bloody, crazy, beautiful mess, featuring enough visual fireworks to restart the Fourth of July." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Jul 5, 2012
2/4 35% Lola Versus (2012) " "Lola Versus" is a heavyweight fight Gerwig just can't win." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Jun 28, 2012
3/4 91% Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) " Unlike time travel or jet-setting, "Safety Not Guaranteed" shows that making movies can still be more about the journey than the destination. Whether or not you have first-class tickets." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Jun 21, 2012
2.5/4 58% Hysteria (2012) " Unlike the similar comedy "The Road to Wellville," "Hysteria" never reaches a fever pitch, mostly because of its predictable Merchant/Ivory-Soap plotting." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Jun 7, 2012
1.5/4 34% Battleship (2012) " Berg does his best to emulate Michael Bay's timeless military-fetish-meets-farting-robots aesthetic, but he never succeeds at putting together an action set-piece that clicks." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted May 17, 2012
3/4 85% The Raid: Redemption (2012) " Lots of action movies hand out 3-D glasses at the door, but tickets for "The Raid: Redemption" should come with a defibrillator." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Apr 12, 2012
2/4 25% Wrath of the Titans (2012) " A sequel nobody asked for, except for some really hard-core Pegasus fans and Hollywood studio execs who would turn wallpaper into a trilogy if the rights were available." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Mar 29, 2012
3/4 67% Friends With Kids (2012) " The horror that real-life parents survive every day is far too frightening for any movie monster, but "Friends With Kids" unearths humor amid all the gory details." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Mar 8, 2012
1/4 28% Project X (2012) " "Project X" is "Animal House" for the YouTube generation - that is, if "Animal House" actually was about torturing animals while innocent bystanders got tased, all without ever being, you know, funny." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Mar 1, 2012
2/4 42% Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012) " The sequel to 2008's "Journey to the Center of the Earth" isn't a movie so much as an amusement-park ride without the park. Or much grown-up amusement." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Feb 9, 2012
2/4 29% The Vow (2012) " In "The Vow," love means never having to say "Who are you? What are you doing in my house?"" — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Feb 9, 2012
1.5/4 51% Contraband (2012) " The film would have been more interesting if Wahlberg was a retired mime who had to escape one last invisible box." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Jan 12, 2012
3/4 80% Young Adult (2011) " Theron and Oswalt play their scenes with an unflinching earnestness worthy of all the award-season buzz." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Dec 15, 2011
1.5/4 7% New Year's Eve (2011) " Make it your New Year's resolution to see something other than "New Year's Eve."" — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Dec 8, 2011
2.5/4 29% Machine Gun Preacher (2011) " "Machine Gun Preacher" feels inspiring, but never inspired. Which is the difference between a great story and a great film." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Oct 6, 2011
3.5/4 93% Drive (2011) " As taut a film as you're likely to see in theaters this year. And it easily leaves other street-racing movies of its kind in the dust, even classics like "Vantage Point" and "Two-Lane Blacktop."" — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Sep 15, 2011
3/4 77% The Debt (2011) " Matthew Vaughn, whose "X-Men: First Class" was similarly groovy, co-wrote and produced "The Debt," and director John Madden takes a shot at Vaughn's action-a-go-go look." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Aug 30, 2011
2/4 72% Fright Night (2011) " "Fright Night" always seems to be heading toward another obligatory uninspired set piece, including a too-dark-to-see-in-3-D car chase and too-boring-to-care basement stakeout, both of which dilute the movie's Coumadin-thin metaphors about adolescence." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Aug 18, 2011
2.5/4 73% Sarah's Key (2011) " A heartbreaking portrayal of the difference between disagreement and distrust." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Aug 11, 2011
2/4 63% Another Earth (2011) " In space, no one can hear you scream, but in "Another Earth," no one can hear you mumble." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Aug 11, 2011
2/4 21% Snow Flower And The Secret Fan (2011) " "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" wants to be "The Color Purple" in China, but it's really just a Lifetime Original Movie with subtitles." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Jul 28, 2011
2/4 18% The Art of Getting By (2011) " Not all motion pictures are worth a thousand words. "The Art of Getting By" isn't even worth the price of a movie ticket." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted Jun 17, 2011
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