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Uncle Barky is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Ed Bark.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
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Mary and Martha (2013) Ed Bark The film grows in power, with both Swank and Blethyn engaging a viewer's sympathies through the force of their performances apart and eventually together after a chance meeting.
Posted Oct 08, 2020  Edit critic review
B
The Girl (2012) Ed Bark It diminishes him and elevates her. Whether that's what he deserves is debatable. But real truths invariably come out, and this is a film that convincingly rings with them.
Posted Aug 04, 2020  Edit critic review
A
Temple Grandin (2010) Ed Bark As noted, none of this seems like the stuff of riveting drama. It is, though. Still only 30, Danes shows she's now ready and able to take command of any acting challenge put in her path.
Posted Jul 30, 2020  Edit critic review
B+
Cinema Verite (2011) Ed Bark Cinema Verite's strength is in dramatizing the off-camera seductions and betrayals that led to the Louds being vilified in many quarters.
Posted Jun 04, 2020  Edit critic review
B+
Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012) Ed Bark Kidman is a certain Emmy nominee and probable winner for this role while Owen might well be invited along for the ride. But she's the one who steels and steals this picture.
Posted Jun 01, 2020  Edit critic review
C
A Christmas Carol (2018) Ed Bark Frankly, this Ebenezer Scrooge merits his Christmas goose being cooked behind bars for two very serious crimes against humanity. Instead he ends up being at large while at last finding the gumption to say "Merry Christmas."
Posted Dec 17, 2019  Edit critic review
A
Deadwood: The Movie (2019) Ed Bark Deadwood: The Movie reunites the principal characters and serves each of them exceedingly well. Who could ask for anything more?
Posted May 31, 2019  Edit critic review
A-
What's My Name: Muhammad Ali (2019) Ed Bark What's My Name doesn't delve into its subject's personal life, focusing only on his career in the ring and his activism outside of it. That's more than enough to easily fill its extended running time.
Posted May 14, 2019  Edit critic review
B-
The Highwaymen (2019) Ed Bark As a film, The Highwaymen has some potholes. But as an eye-catching, promotable and heavily watched attraction, it seems sure to go the extra mile.
Posted Mar 29, 2019  Edit critic review
B+
Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists (2018) Ed Bark It's really not too grand a statement about two guys who lived, breathed and emboldened the printed word.
Posted Feb 14, 2019  Edit critic review
B+
My Dinner With Hervé (2018) Ed Bark Dinklage excels in a very difficult role to pull off while Dornan keeps pace as his reluctant Boswell. Their love story, is both an entertaining romp and a cautionary tale.
Posted Oct 22, 2018  Edit critic review
F
The Last Sharknado: It's About Time (2018) Ed Bark It's probably OK to say that airborne sharks again are key to the "story."
Posted Aug 17, 2018  Edit critic review
B+
(undefined) Ed Bark Jackie Robinson connects all of these dots and gives a far fuller picture of the man than the pedestrian 2013 feature film 42 or 1950's The Jackie Robinson Story, in which Jackie played himself opposite Ruby Dee as Rachel.
Posted Jul 02, 2018  Edit critic review
A-
What We Started (2017) Ed Bark Bouncing between eras and their various beats, while also playing a few heartstrings down the stretch. It's a trip well worth taking, whether you're a devotee of EDM or a neophyte like myself.
Posted Jul 02, 2018  Edit critic review
B+
Too Big to Fail (2011) Ed Bark Too Big to Fail effectively follows the money while humanizing most of the moneychangers.
Posted Jun 25, 2018  Edit critic review
B
Perry Como Classics: Till the End of Time (2018) Ed Bark Como's weekly variety hour had a glow and an impact that still resonates with many Baby Boomer kids who since have outlived him, but not his memory.
Posted Jun 07, 2018  Edit critic review
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John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls (2018) Ed Bark The respect and admiration for the cancer-afflicted POW turned Arizona senator is non-partisan and clearly more than pro forma during this 1 hour, 45 minute film.
Posted May 29, 2018  Edit critic review
B+
The Tale (2018) Ed Bark In this view, its overall story of innocent susceptibility, bogus fulfillment, latter day denial and hard-earned closure triumphs over what Bill does to Jenny in the name of "love."
Posted May 24, 2018  Edit critic review
C-
Fahrenheit 451 (2018) Ed Bark The film isn't much of a read, though.
Posted May 22, 2018  Edit critic review
B+
Elvis Presley: The Searcher (2018) Ed Bark HBO's three-and-a-half hour Elvis Presley: The Searcher ... is an evocative documentary without malice.
Posted Apr 16, 2018  Edit critic review
A-
Paterno (2018) Ed Bark The portrayal of Paterno is right up there with Pacino's very best work.
Posted Apr 05, 2018  Edit critic review
A
(undefined) Ed Bark In its scope and a mostly impeccable selection of images, quotes and anecdotes (Ho Chi Minh once worked as a New York city pastry chef), The Vietnam War boldly and bravely stands its ground and almost assuredly will stand the test of time.
Posted Sep 14, 2017  Edit critic review
C
Dirty Dancing (2017) Ed Bark The new Dirty Dancing, cast with an eye toward diversity, ends up being neither disastrous or necessary.
Posted May 24, 2017  Edit critic review
B
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017) Ed Bark Ninety minutes on the origins of the so-called HeLa cell line sound about as dramatically inviting as a teeth-cleaning. But Winfrey's performance, as Henrietta's tormented youngest daughter, Deborah, is jump-off-the-screen terrific.
Posted Apr 21, 2017  Edit critic review
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Maya Angelou and Still I Rise (2016) Ed Bark And Still I Rise mostly soars, though, on the wings of Maya Angelou's own words and recollections. She lived a multifaceted life for the ages, overcoming a wealth of indignities while also rising above her own considerable faults and frailties.
Posted Feb 22, 2017  Edit critic review
A-
Tower (2016) Ed Bark Tower is a vivid snapshot of derangement, heroism, endurance and sometimes admitted cowardice on what remains the most traumatic day in University of Texas history.
Posted Feb 14, 2017  Edit critic review
A-
The Witness for the Prosecution (2016) Ed Bark Although it arguably strings things out a bit too much, this newest Witness is a watchable feast of strong portrayals and mostly sturdy plot threads.
Posted Feb 01, 2017  Edit critic review
B-
Beaches (2017) Ed Bark Lifetime's re-do of Beaches provides a suitably weepy, sometimes sappy, overall entertaining escape.
Posted Jan 19, 2017  Edit critic review
A
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (2016) Ed Bark Bright Lights is a much better way to remember them. It wasn't supposed to double as a requiem, but who knew at the time?
Posted Jan 09, 2017  Edit critic review
A
The Little Prince (2015) Ed Bark Beautifully and expressively animated, The Little Prince basically is the story of an old man who still acts like a kid and a kid who's being programmed to be an "essential" cog in the grand industrial, soul-deadening scheme of things.
Posted Aug 05, 2016  Edit critic review
O.J.: Made in America (2016) Ed Bark ESPN's ongoing 5-part, 10-hour O. J.: Made In America documentary series at first brush had the air of redundancy. Instead it's anything but.
Posted Jun 17, 2016  Edit critic review
A
All the Way (2016) Ed Bark This is a riveting film with a bravura performance by Cranston, who's been the signature television actor of the past decade. All the Way again shows there's nothing he can't do -- with the exception of giving a bad performance.
Posted May 20, 2016  Edit critic review
A-
Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015) Ed Bark Janis: Little Girl Blue vividly and often poignantly revisits her short life -- and hard and fast times.
Posted May 04, 2016  Edit critic review
B
Confirmation (2016) Ed Bark Confirmation connects most of the dots of those times while falling short of the dramatic impact left by FX's O.J. Simpson miniseries.
Posted Apr 15, 2016  Edit critic review
B-
Bessie (2015) Ed Bark It fleshes out Bessie Smith to a degree but certainly not in full measure. Latifah and Rainey can sure sing out, though. It's a pleasure to watch and hear them wail in a film that otherwise doesn't quite cut it.
Posted Dec 03, 2015  Edit critic review
C
The Unauthorized Full House Story (2015) Ed Bark A few nice turns by Brawith as Saget aren't enough to make The Unauthorized Full House Movie more than a connect-the-dots, dish-a-little-dirt, spoon-a-little-sugar, cut-print diversion.
Posted Sep 08, 2015  Edit critic review
B+
Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie (2012) Ed Bark There's no revisionist lionizing here, but plenty of perspective.
Posted Aug 20, 2015  Edit critic review
C
Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! (2015) Ed Bark Given the real-life shark attacks making big news this summer, Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! may seem even more redundant than usual.
Posted Jul 22, 2015  Edit critic review
B-
Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas (2014) Ed Bark As holiday newcomers go, this is much better than socks and underwear from Grandma. Just don't expect a shiny new train set.
Posted Dec 16, 2014  Edit critic review
C-
How Murray Saved Christmas (2014) Ed Bark It's way short on charm, labors to be amusing and runs out of gas well before its hour is up.
Posted Dec 05, 2014  Edit critic review
C+
Sharknado 2: The Second One (2014) Ed Bark The overall effect isn't quite intoxicating, and it might be better if you're intoxicated in one form or another.
Posted Jul 29, 2014  Edit critic review
A-
The Normal Heart (2014) Ed Bark The Normal Heart grows in poignancy as characters we've come to know are affected or afflicted by AIDS.
Posted May 22, 2014  Edit critic review
B+
The Address (2014) Ed Bark [It] becomes an instructive and affecting film, although not a true Burns classic. Still, it's nice to him as a fly on the wall in a contemporary setting, with cameras capturing the here and now rather than recycling telling images from long times ago.
Posted Apr 16, 2014  Edit critic review
A
Salinger (2013) Ed Bark Salinger triumphs, though, as an absorbing portrait of a singular man of mystery.
Posted Jan 28, 2014  Edit critic review
B-
Flowers in the Attic (2014) Ed Bark It all seems fairly preposterous until one takes into account that stranger things have happened in real life.
Posted Jan 16, 2014  Edit critic review
B-
Killing Kennedy (2013) Ed Bark Killing Kennedy easily could have been twice its length, the better to add both nuance and context. Instead it's a watchable film with many missing parts, a broadly drawn Classics Illustrated version of what happened and why.
Posted Nov 12, 2013  Edit critic review
B
American Masters: Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A Comin' (2013) Ed Bark What he was really like remains in large part a mystery. In that respect, Hear My Train A Comin' doesn't try to play a gumshoe. Its strengths are Hendrix in action, his guitar on fire whether he set a match to it or not.
Posted Nov 05, 2013  Edit critic review
C-
JFK: The Smoking Gun (2013) Ed Bark It can't be said -- unfortunately -- that Smoking Gun is bereft of any "entertainment" value.
Posted Oct 30, 2013  Edit critic review
A-
Seduced and Abandoned (2013) Ed Bark This one seems to effortlessly breathe on its own as a buddy/buddy "road picture" with scenic pathways, a few dead ends and refreshing breezes throughout.
Posted Oct 25, 2013  Edit critic review
A-
Burton and Taylor (2013) Ed Bark It's a film that asks a lot from West and Bonham Carter, who deliver time and again in roles that could have eaten them alive. Instead we feast.
Posted Oct 18, 2013  Edit critic review
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