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Jason Heck

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Zookeeper (2011) 13% 1/4 EDIT “Despite the voice talent, the animals don't have anything funny to say. Neither does James, serving mostly as a befuddled, clumsy straight man.” – Kansas City Star Jul 7, 2011 Full Review The Art of Getting By (2011) 20% 2/4 EDIT “Memo to Gavin Wiesen: If 35-year-old actors could deliver the same dialogue as your teenage protagonists without the audience noticing the difference, you need a rewrite.” – Kansas City Star Jun 16, 2011 Full Review Small Town Murder Songs (2010) 79% 3/4 EDIT “Why are recent movies about small towns with murderous secrets so good?” – Kansas City Star Jun 9, 2011 Full Review Road to Nowhere (2010) 76% 3/4 EDIT “Part of the pleasure of the film is trying to parse the reality from the fiction as Hellman weaves everything sinuously together.” – Kansas City Star Jun 9, 2011 Full Review Incendies (2010) 91% 3.5/4 EDIT “he film offers moments for comprehension and reflection, beautifully pacing itself right up until its stunning conclusion.” – Kansas City Star Jun 2, 2011 Full Review Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) 82% 3/4 EDIT “Its chief strength rests in its visuals, which are at once evocative of delicate silk-screen paintings from ancient China and yet filled with the lush, wild colors only fantasy can have.” – Kansas City Star May 26, 2011 Full Review Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (2011) 72% 2.5/4 EDIT “It's not a heavyweight documentary, chock-full of deep lessons or shocking revelations, but Spurlock makes for a pleasant star around which the rest of this breezy movie can orbit.” – Kansas City Star May 20, 2011 Full Review Prom (2011) 36% 2.5/4 EDIT “Adults will yawn, having seen this movie (and possibly lived it) a few times, but for its 11- to 16-year-old target audience, it'll be exactly right.” – Kansas City Star Apr 28, 2011 Full Review Soul Surfer (2011) 45% 2.5/4 EDIT “The movie feels emotionally distant, as if director Sean McNamara was so busy setting up gorgeous surfing footage that he forgot to bring the story to the audience.” – Kansas City Star Apr 7, 2011 Full Review I Am Number Four (2011) 32% 1/4 EDIT “It populates itself not with characters but with puddle-shallow types who give the audience nothing to invest in.” – Kansas City Star Feb 17, 2011 Full Review Gnomeo & Juliet (2011) 55% 2.5/4 EDIT “Gnomeo & Juliet won't change any paradigms in animation or in depictions of Shakespeare, but it will certainly keep kids in stitches and their parents smiling for its short duration. Perhaps that's enough.” – Kansas City Star Feb 10, 2011 Full Review Gulliver's Travels (2010) 19% 2/4 EDIT “Drugs? Alcohol? A cruel hypnotist? What can explain why studio executives green-lit this bizarre misfire?” – Kansas City Star Dec 23, 2010 Full Review Little Fockers (2010) 10% 2/4 EDIT “The law of diminishing returns catches up with yet another creaky franchise.” – Kansas City Star Dec 21, 2010 Full Review Yogi Bear (2010) 13% 1/4 EDIT “For what audience was this cynical, crushingly witless film made, exactly?” – Kansas City Star Dec 16, 2010 Full Review Life as We Know It (2010) 29% 1/4 EDIT “This exercise in cynical formulaic movie construction is best avoided, unless insomnia's been a problem.” – Kansas City Star Oct 7, 2010 Full Review Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010) 52% 2/4 EDIT “Zack Snyder can work wonders with visuals. It's the scripts that can let him down.” – Kansas City Star Sep 23, 2010 Full Review Easy A (2010) 85% 8.5/10 EDIT “Stone really does rock Easy A, making Gluck's valentine to Hughes into something lovable in its own right.” – Kansas City Star Sep 16, 2010 Full Review Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010) 13% 2/4 EDIT “It's made just for less-discriminating kids and perhaps a few very easily amused adults. Emphasis on very.” – Kansas City Star Jul 29, 2010 Full Review The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010) 40% 2/4 EDIT “Ever wonder what the Harry Potter films would be like without an ounce of wit, grace or subtlety? Wonder no more.” – Kansas City Star Jul 15, 2010 Full Review Marmaduke (2010) 9% 3/4 EDIT “In a genre so choked with cynical films, this one was made with enough skill and heart to make its emotional payoffs believable and welcome.” – Kansas City Star Jun 4, 2010 Full Review City Island (2009) 83% 2.5/4 EDIT “The sentiment feels real and the payoffs feel earned, and those things are worth the price of admission.” – Kansas City Star Apr 16, 2010 Full Review Leap Year (2010) 24% 2.0/4.0 EDIT “In a film that takes no chances, breaks no new ground and makes no fatal errors. It's the cinematic equivalent of ordering pizza for dinner three nights in a row.” – Kansas City Star Jan 8, 2010 Full Review Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009) 21% 2/4 EDIT “As tedious as it is inevitable, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel is as ho-ho-hum as can be.” – Kansas City Star Dec 23, 2009 Full Review Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) 46% 2/4 EDIT “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.” – Kansas City Star Jun 30, 2009 Full Review Imagine That (2009) 41% 1.5/4 EDIT “One of the most squirm-inducing saccharine-sweet movies to come along in a long time.” – Kansas City Star Jun 12, 2009 Full Review
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